Stackolee Chords by Mississippi John Hurt

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[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ Police, Law Enforcement, how can it be [F] you can arrest everybody [C] but Cruella Staggerly, [G] that bad man?
Oh, [C] Cruella Staggerly, _ _ _ _ _
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_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ better than Lion Toe Staggerly, please don't take my life, says I [F] got too little faith in a darling [C] loving wife, he's [G] a bad man.
Oh, [C] Cruella Staggerly, _ _ _ _
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what I care about you too little baby, darling loving wife, said you don't stole [F] a stuffing hat and I'm [C] bound to take your life, [G] that bad man.
[C] Oh, Cruella Staggerly, _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ when a forty four, when a spy, [F] oh Billy the Lion, [C] he's lying down in the floor, that [G] bad man.
Oh, [C] Cruella Staggerly, _ _ _ _
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so pitiful.
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Gentlemen's off the jury, what do you think of that?
Says Staggerly, give [F] Billy the Lion, bite a [C] five dollar stuffing hat, [G] that bad man.
Oh, [F] cruel [C] Stagger Lee, _ _ _ _ _
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_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ standing on the gallows,
Stagger Lee did curse, the judge [F] said,
Let's kill him [C] before he kills some of us,
He's [G] a bad man.
Oh, [C] cruel Stagger Lee, _ _ _ _ _
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[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ standing on the gallows,
He'd wave high at twelve o'clock [F] to kill him,
They's all [C] glad to see him die, he's [G] a bad man.
Oh, [C] cruel Stagger Lee, _ _ _ _ _
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[C] _ I said,
Police and officers, how can it be,
[Am] You can arrest [F] everybody, [C] but cruel Stagger Lee,
[G] That bad man.
[C] Oh, cruel Stagger Lee.
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