Stagger Lee (2013 Remaster) Chords

[D] _ [E] _ [F] _ [Bb] 1940, X [Bb] was evil, he full on over town.
[F] [C] Sniggly [Bb] met [C] Billy the [Bb] Lion and he blew that whole bar down.
[F] [C] Do you [Bb] know what [C] he shot [Bb] him for?
What do you make of [A] that?
[G] Because Billy the Lion threw the lucky [A] dice on Sniggly's dead son, Ed.
[Em] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _
Bio, Bio, [G] tell me how can this be?
You arrest the [C] girl's for [G] turning chicks but you scare the [D] Stiggly.
[C] _ [G] Stiggly [C] is [G] a mad man and he shot my [D] Billy D.
_ [C] Bio [G] go get him, [C] or give the [D] job to me.
[C] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ [D]
[C] Delia, [D] Delia, [G] dear sweet Delia D.
How the [C] hell can I [G] arrest him?
He's twice as [D] big as [C] me.
[G] Well, don't ask [C] me to [G] go downtown, I [C] won't come [D] back alive.
[C] Not only is [G] that mother big, [C] he packs a [D] .45.
_ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [F] _ [C]
[Dm] Bio, [C] Delia [Bb] said, just give me a gun.
[F] He [C] shot my [Bb] Billy D.
[F] and [Bb] now I'm gonna see him hung.
[F] She [C] waded [Bb] to [F] Delia's [Bb] club through Billy the Lion's [A] blood.
[G] She took to Stiggly at the [A] bar, said buy me a gin for his [Em] love. _
[A] _ [D] As Stiggly lit a [G] cigarette, she shot him in the balls.
Threw the smoke off [C] of her hip [G] hopper, had him dragged to [D] City Hall.
[C] _ [G] Bio, _ Bio, [C] see him [D] hang.
[C] He shot my [G] Billy D.
and [C] now he's [D] got to die.
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _
[D] _ _ Delia went walking [G] down on Singapore Street.
A three-piece [C] band on the [G] corner played, [C] near him I [D] died to thee.
[C] _ [G] _ [C] Delia's whistle [G] was different to what two [D] could have been.
[C] The song that [G] woman sung [C] was Cookout [D] Stiggly.
[C] The song that [G] Delia sung [C] was Cookout [D] Stiggly.
[C] The song that [G] woman sung [C] was Cookout [D] Stiggly.
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