Saying, "Are you Frankie Lee, the gambler, (pause)Dylan when singing pauses in between the two lines to make the cadence even easier to pick out.
Whose father is deceased?
Dylan's father Abraham Zimmerman died on June 5, 1968, less than a year after Dylan recorded "Ballad of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest." It is possible that the knowledge of his own father's impending death influenced the lyric.
