Lloyd Price

Stagger Lee

Lloyd Price

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Stagger Lee

Written by Harold Logan/Lloyd Price

	  		Stagger Lee:Lloyd Price.  
#7 in UK and #1 USA in 1959.  
(Song is alleged to be based on a true story.)  

INTRO:(Slow)  (.)  
C                            F        C  
The night was clear, and the moon was yellow..  
        G7                   C  
And the leaves came tumblin' down...   

#1.(fast, rock.)  
C                     C7  
I was standin' on the corner,  
       F  
When I heard my bull dog bark.  
       C  
He was barkin' at the two men  
         G7              C   G7  
Who were gamblin' in the dark.  
               C       C7  
It was Stagger Lee and Billy,  
    F7  
Two men who gambled late.  
        C  
Stagger lee threw a seven,  
      G7                  C    G7  
Billy swore that he threw eight.  

#2.  
C  
Stagger Lee, said Billy,  
        F  
I can't let you go with that.  
         C  
You have won all my money,  
       G7                C  G7  
And my brand-new Stetson hat.  
        C  
Stagger Lee went home,  
       F  
And he got his forty-four.  
             C  
He said, I'm goin' to the barroom  
        G7              C  
Just to pay that debt I owe.  
 G7  
(Go, Stagger Lee.)  

#3.  
C  
Stagger Lee went to the barroom,  
       F  
And he stood across the barroom door.  
         C                   G7          C  G7  
He said, Nobody move, and he pulled his .44.  
        C  
Stagger Lee, cried Billy,  
    F  
Oh, please don't take my life!  
         C  
I've got three little children,  
      G7          C   G7  
And a very sickly wife.  

#4.  
        C  
Stagger Lee shot Billy.  
       F  
Oh, he shot that poor boy so bad..  
         C  
That the bullet went through Billy  
    G7                    C    
And broke the bartender's glass.  
 G7  
(Look out now.)  

ADD:  
C                C7               F7  
Go, Stagger Lee..go, Stagger Lee..go, Stagger Lee..  
                 C   G7 C  
Go, Stagger Lee..go, go...Fade.  


A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.  

		  

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