Key: Db major
Intro 1
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E
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Am
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G
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Verse 1
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C
levee just about the break of day
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C
Saw old
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D
Billy a gamblin' so he set
Cm
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Am
Staggly drew a seven,
G
C
Billy, he swore he drew an eight
Staggly said to
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Billy, can't get away with that
C
Am
Bad enough to take my money,
A
D
but you can't have my
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Billy, you better run down
by the track
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Am
Cause I ain't gonna shoot you now,
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C
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don't be here when I get back
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C
Staggly, meet this boy around
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C
Way down in
New
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F
Orleans, got the
Lions
Club
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Am
And every step you step,
you're steppin' in
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E
Staggly went back to his wo man,
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D
G
so he won't gamble wrong no more
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E
Staggly went back to the levee,
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Am
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Am
Staggly drew his gun an d poor
Staggly,
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C
Staggly, meanest boy around
Am
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Staggly is dealin' ball,
G
C
Way down in
New
E
F
Orleans, got the
Lions
Club
C
Am
And every step you step,
you're steppin' in
Billy the
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C
A
Lion's blood
D
G
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D
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The
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Staggly, you'd better leave this town.
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Am
Billy's body,
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I'm gonna have to run you down.
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Sheriff the very words that he said.
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Am
The man I ran away from,
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C
he ain't born yet and he's dead.
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Staggly went to heaven and he met
St.
Peter there.
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Go the other way, boy,
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Staggly said to the devil,
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run this place myself
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Staggly, meanest boy around
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Way down in
New
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F
Orleans, got that
Lions
Club
C
Am
D
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And every step you step, you're steppin' in billowy lion's blood.
Outro 1
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