Chords for 955 - Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price cover with chords and lyrics

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Good day and welcome to my sunroom recording studio where there are _ snowflakes
drifting down outside
This is my first recording have having upgraded the software on my Macintosh to mountain lion
So we'll see if I continue to have problems with my webcam software
_ Stopping I'd like to cover a song now, which was a hit from a guy named Lloyd Price in
_ 1959 it was number one in the USA in that year
The name of the song is staggerly supposedly based on a true [B] story
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_ The night was [F] clear and the [C] moon was yellow [G] and the [Em] leaves
[F] Came [C] tumbling _ down.
_ [G] _
_ [C] I was standing _ on a corner
_ [F] When I heard my bulldog bark
_ [C] He was barking to [G] men who were gambling [C] in the dark
_ [G] _ _
It [C] was staggerly and Billy
_ [F] do men who gamble they _ _ [C] staggerly
Through a seven [G]-milly swore that he threw [C] away
_ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] staggerly
_ Said Billy I [F] can't let you go with that
You [C] have one of my money in [G] my brand-new
lips [C] in half
_ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] staggerly
_ Went home
And [F] he got his 44 _
He [C] said I'm going to the bar room [G] just to pay that then [C] I go
_ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] staggerly
Went to the bar room and [F] he stood across the bar room door
He [C] said nobody moved and [G] he pulled out his [C] 44
_ _ [G] Cry _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ Billy.
_ [F] Oh
Please don't take my life.
I [C] got three little children [G] and a very _ [C] sickly wife
_ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ staggerly
_ John Billy _ [F] Oh
That poor boy so bad
That [C] the boy went through Billy [G] and broke the bar [C] class
_ Look [G] out now
_ [C] Go staggerly Go staggerly Go staggerly Go staggerly [F] Go staggerly Go staggerly [C] Go staggerly Go _ [G] staggerly
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_ [N] _ _ Staggerly from Lloyd Price _ 1959.
I'm George Bosley 2012.