Grateful Dead - Stagger Lee guitar chord

(Garcia/Hunter)

Last Updated 02/29/96

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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 (a# a g#)

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.