Stagger Lee - Grateful Dead Chords
Chords: Bb, G, A, C/G, C, D
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Bb
And he blew that poor boy down.
Bb
What do you make of that?
G
Cause Billy DeLion threw lucky dice
A
Won Stagger Lee's Stetson hat.
G
Tell me how can this be?
G C/G G
You arrest the girls for turning tricks
C C D C
But you're scared of Stagger Lee.
G C/G G C C D
Stagger Lee is a madman and he shot my Billy D.
C G C C D C G C C D
Bayou go get him or give the job to me.
G
Oh sweet Delia-D (Hammer on and Pull off G string 2nd Fret)
G C/G G C C D C
How the hell can I arrest him? He's twice as big as me
G C/G G C C D
Well don't ask me to go downtown, I won't come back alive
C G C C D C G C C D
Not only is that mother big he packs a Forty Five
G
Stepped up to Stagger Lee at the bar,
A
Said, "Buy me a gin fizz, love."
G
she shot him in the balls (h2p0 on G string)
G C/G G C C D C
Blew the smoke off her revolver, had him dragged to city hall
G C/G G C C D
Bayou, Bayou, see you hangin' high
C G C C D
He shot my Billy dead and now he's got to die
G
Down on Singapore Street (h2p0 on G string)
G C/G G C C D
A three-piece band on the corner played "Near My God to Thee"
G C/G G C C D
But Delia whistled a different tune, what tune could it be?
C G C C D
The song that woman sung was "Look Out Stagger Lee".
C G C C D C G C C D
The song that Delia sung was "Look Out Stagger Lee".
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