Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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wee
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wee hours of the morning
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That's when Stagger Lee and Billy
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Cm
had that great big fight
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I was standing on the corner
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He was barking at two men
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who were gambling in the dark
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It was Stagger Lee and Billy,
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threw eight
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Stagger Lee told Billy,
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Eb
new Stetson hat
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So Stagger Lee, he went home,
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and pay that debt that I owe
down to the barroom
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Cm
he pulled his 44
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Stagger Lee cried, Billy,
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an d a darlin' lovely wife
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What do I care about your
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What do I care about your
darlin' lovely wife?
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I'm bound to take your life
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Stagger Lee, you shot Billy
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Dm
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He shot that poor boy so bad
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That the bullets went through Billy
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Cm
And broke the bartender's glass
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Now, Billy's wife, Millie,
she went down to the bar room
how Billy's dead
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Now, Stagger Lee just laughed, he said
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He can't, the hole's in his head
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Dm
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what do you think of that?
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about a five dollar Stetson hat.
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Cm
before he murders one of us
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Staggered he stood upon the gallows,
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It was twelve o 'clock when they killed him,
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they were all glad to see him die
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He took six, six white horses,
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carry ing that rubber -tied hack
to the graveyard
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Ain't gonna bring him back
Cm
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When the women, the women all heard
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Heard that Stagger Lee was dead
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And they re -arragged in red
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back from the funeral
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Turnin' Billy upside down
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Billy the Lion's blood
you better run
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cause a man has got your gun
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