Stagger Lee And Billy chords by Tina Turner
Verse 1
Em
E
I went down to the Gogo West,
D
B
I thought I would have myself a bar
E
But if I had known what was
C
in store for me,
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B
E
I never would have gone at all
D
B
E
Cause they threw chairs and files
Em
all over the place
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Em
E
B
I couldn't find no place to hide
E
Em
But every time I made a
C
break for the door
E
B
E
Somebody knocked me right back inside
B
D
B
E
Staggly was
kissin' Billy's wife
B
When Billy walked in the door
E
Staggly caught the flea
C
and got down on his knee
E
But Billy knocked him right
B
dead on the floor
E
D
E
Billy was hitting Stagger Lee so hard
B
The cops were scared to speak
E
The two bouncers standing there
B
E
C
They even turned their head
E
B
E
B
Pretending like they didn't see
D
E
Billy whipped the poor boy so long
B
Until he started to look impaled
E
He even gave Stagger Lee
C
E
Two black eyes and daddy
B
the one to swing
D
B
E
While they threw chairs and bottles
all over the place
Em
B
I couldn't find no place to hide
E
Em
E
But every time I made a
C
break from the door
E
B
E
Somebody knocked me right back inside
B
D
B
E
B
E
B
Am
C
E
B
E
B
E
Now when the fight was over,
oh boy, what a mess,
D
E
Stagger Lee had some
B
broken bones.
E
And I know the boy had learned
C
a lesson from this,
E
that's to leave married
B
E
wo men alone.
B
E
B
Cause they threw chairs and bottles
Em
E
all over the place,
Em
E
B
and I couldn't find no place to hide.
E
Em
But every time I made a
C
break for the door,
E
B
somebody knocked me right back inside
E
I ain't never seen the like of him before
The poor boy gained ten
D
E
pounds in five minutes
D
His head looked like a watermel
E
on's overcoat
B
And his eyes was the size of a missile egg
E
His mouth looked like a Salvation
Army's tin with buckshot holes
D
Huh, mad man, what a mess
E
Stagger Lee And Billy
Tina Turner
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