Misc Unsigned Bands – Lloyd Price - Stagger Lee chords

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

INTRO:(Slow)  (Capo 1st fret.)
C                            F        CThe night was clear, and the moon was yellow..
        G7                   CAnd the leaves came tumblin' down... 

#1.(fast, rock.)
C                     C7I was standin' on the corner,
       FWhen I heard my bull dog bark.
       CHe was barkin' at the two men
         G7              C   G7Who were gamblin' in the dark.
               C       C7It was Stagger Lee and Billy,
    F7Two men who gambled late.
        CStagger lee threw a seven,
      G7                  C    G7Billy swore that he threw eight.

#2.
CStagger Lee, said Billy,
        FI can't let you go with that.
         CYou have won all my money,
       G7                C  G7And my brand-new Stetson hat.
        CStagger Lee went home,
       FAnd he got his forty-four.
             CHe said, I'm goin' to the barroom
        G7              CJust to pay that debt I owe.
 G7(Go, Stagger Lee.)

#3.
CStagger Lee went to the barroom,
       FAnd he stood across the barroom door.
         C                   G7          C  G7He said, Nobody move, and he pulled his .44.
        CStagger Lee, cried Billy,
    FOh, please don't take my life!
         CI've got three little children,
      G7          C   G7And a very sickly wife.

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

ADD:
C                C7               F7Go, Stagger Lee..go, Stagger Lee..go, Stagger Lee..
                 C   G7 CGo, Stagger Lee..go, go...Fade.


A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.