Conversation:

May I ask what was the Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest all about ? I have listened to this song at least a million bloody times and i love it to death, but I still cannot figure it out ...Help anyone?

Judas Anarchrist

Isn't it that they were scapegoats?

Suggest you look no further than one was a Jew and the other a Gentile & one had a good time and died and the other didn't!

Oh it's just like me to miss the obvious. Any ideas about Mr. Ira Hayes (I heared he was a hero, though not the spelling of his name).

Ira Hayes - native American who (helped) raised the Stars & Stripes in WW2 immortalised in "Sands of Iwo Jima" (hope that's right).
See http://www.artnatam.com/utaylor/n-ut008.html
Haven't heard the song. Music from the early 70s was something to die to (not "for" like it should be.)