Stagger Lee Tab

Grateful Dead
Stagger Lee
Closing of Winterland 1978
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP8anFSWdew
 
 
[Chords for Part 1]
 
F  C  Bb   F           Bb
1940, Xmas eve, with a full moon over town
F*      C       Bb     F
Stagger Lee met Billy DeLion
       Bb
And he blew that poor boy down.
F*     C            Bb        F
Do you know what he shot him for?
     Bb
What do you make of that?
 
 
[Riff 1]
 
e|------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------|
E|---6---5---4--3---------------------------------|
 
G
Cause Billy DeLion threw lucky dice
    A
Won Stagger Lee's Stetson hat.
 
 
[Riff 2]
 
e|------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------|
G|-------0--------2----2--------------------------|
D|---1^2----2p0-----------------------------------|
A|--------------3---0-----------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------|
 
 
[Part 2]
 
Chords
     G    C/G    D     C
e|---3-----3-----2-----0---|
B|---0-----1-----3-----1---|
G|---0-----0-----2-----0---|
D|---0-----2-----0-----2---|
A|---2-----x-----------3---|
E|---3-----3---------------|
 
After he sings "Tell me how can this be?" hammer on and pull off the 2nd fret of the G string.
 
  Bayou                      Bayou
e|---------------|         e|---------------|
B|----1----h3----|         B|----1----h3----|
G|----2----------|         G|----2----------|
D|---------------|         D|---------------|
A|---------------|         A|---------------|
E|---------------|         E|---------------|
 
G
Tell me how can this be?
G                        C      G
You arrest the girls for turning tricks
           C         C       D      C
But you're scared of Stagger Lee.
G                C  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.
 
 
Use Part 2 chords
 
D  C                       D  C
Delia                      Deliah
G
Oh sweet Delia-D  (Hammer on and Pull off G string 2nd Fret)
G                   C     G         C       C       D      C
How the hell can I arrest him? He's twice as big as me
G                   C       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
 
 
Use Chord and Riffs from Part 1
 
F* C   Bb     F     Bb
Bayou, Delia said, just give me a gun
F*         C     Bb    F      Bb
He shot my Billy dead now I'm gonna see him hung.
F*            C     Bb      F            Bb
She went into the DeLion's club through Billy DeLion's blood
 
Riff 1
G
Stepped up to Stagger Lee at the bar,
       A
Said, "Buy me a gin fizz, love."
 
Riff 2
D          C              D     C
As Stagger Lee            lit a cigarette
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
 
D  C                         D    C
Delia                       went walkin'
G
Down on Singapore Street (h2p0 on G string)
G                          C    G       C        C      D
A three-piece band on the corner played "Near My God to Thee"
G                     C        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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