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Stagger Lee by Grateful Dead - Guitar Chords
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Version 1
(Garcia/Hunter)
[Intro]
C D E
F C Bb F Bb
1940, Xmas eve, with a full moon over town
F C Bb F
Stagger Lee met Billy DeLion
Bb
And he blew that poor boy down.
F C Bb F
Do you know what he shot him for?
Bb (Bb A Ab)
What do you make of that?
G
Cause Billy DeLion threw lucky dice
A
Won Stagger Lee's Stetson hat.
Riff
C D C D G C G
Bayou, Bayou, tell me how can this be?
G C G
You arrest the girls for turning tricks
C D C
But you're scared of Stagger Lee.
G C G C D
Stagger Lee is a madman and he shot my Billy D.
C G C D (C G C D)
Bayou go get him or give the job to me.
C D C D G C G
Delia DeLions, oh sweet Delia-D
G C G C D C
How the hell can I arrest him? He's twice as big as me.
G C G C D
Well don't ask me to go downtown, I won't come back alive
C G C D (C G C D)
Not only is that mother big but he packs a .45
F C Bb F Bb
Bayou, Delia said, just give me a gun
F C Bb F Bb
He shot my Billy dead now I'm gonna see him hung.
F C Bb F Bb (Bb A Ab)
She went into the DeLion's club through Billy DeLions blood
G
Stepped up to Stagger Lee at the bar,
A
Said, "Buy me a gin fizz, love."
C D C D G C G
As Stagger Lee lit a cigarette she shot him in the balls
G C G C D C
Blew the smoke off her revolver, had him dragged to city hall
G C G C D
Bayou, Bayou, see you hang him high
C G C D (C G C D)
He shot my Billy dead and now he's got to die.
D C D C G C G
Delia went a walking down on Singapore Street
G C G C D C
A three-piece band on the corner played "Near My God to Thee"
G C G C D
But Delia whistled a different tune, what tune could it be?
C G C D (C G C D)
The song that woman sung was "Look Out Stagger Lee".
C G C D (C G C D)
The song that Delia sung was "Look Out Stagger Lee".
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