Chords for Doc Watson - "Stagger Lee"

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_ [D] _ _ _ _ All out in the alley on a dark and dreary night [G] Bill Lines and old Stackly
They had one [D] awful fight [A] to us all about
Now John B.
[D] Stetson had _
_ Billy went to the bar room to get him a glass of beer [G] old Stackly comes thumping in he said what are you doing [D] here?
[A] That Batman
_ They call me [D] Stackly _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Old Stackly says to Billy I'm gonna kill you dead [G] you taking all my money and my steps right [D] off my head
[A] Yeah, I'm gonna kill you _
They call me [D] Stackly
_ _ Bill Lines says now Stackly won't you please spare my life?
[G] I got two little children man and a darling [D] loving wife.
[A] Don't kill me
Don't kill me [D] _
Stackly
Old Stacky says to Billy no, I ain't gonna spare your life.
[G] God bless your little children son.
I'll take care of [D] your wife
I'm [A] that Batman _
They call me [D] Stackly
_ Old Stackly shot poor Billy shot him right through the head
[G] Don't take him on 44 ball to kill [D] poor Billy did [A] that Batman
_ that rascal [D] Stackly _ _
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_ _ _ All out in the alley I heard my bulldog bark
[G] He's a barking out old Stackly went stumbling [D] through the dark [A] that bad man.
He's scared to that awful [D] Stackly
_ When the sheriff found old Stackly found him fast [Am] asleep
[G] And when he wake an old stack up, he said he jumped about [D] 40 feet.
[A] He's a bad man
Yes, they called old [D] Stackly _
Then stack says to the jailer, mr.
Jailer, I can't sleep ever [G] time
I close my eyes and I build [D] lines against the creek [A] all around
_ this jailhouse [D] all the time _ _ _ _ _
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_ Men folks all laughing [G] women [D] folks all the cry [G] see the folks that come from miles around just see old Stackly [D] died
[A] That bad man.
Yeah, they called him [D] Stackly
_ _ Old stack standing up on scaffold and he began to [Am] cuss [G] and the sheriff said let's hang boys for he kills [D] one of us
He's a [A] bad man
They call him [D] Stackly
_ _ Somebody tripped that scaffold and old stack went down below
When [G] the devil seen him a coming this says I hate that [D] rascal soul.
We [A] don't need him down here
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Stack grabbed the devil by the collar and he threw him up on the [F#] shelf [G] said get out of here
Son of a gun I run this place [D] myself.
[A] I'm that bad man.
They call me [D] Stackly _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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