Same Old Stagolee chords by Justin Townes Earle

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: G+G

♫ Verse 1:
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Up Chestnut Hill, down on Murfreesboro Pines
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He set up on the low-rise, slinging nickels and dimes
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He a bad man, old Stagolee
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It was Stagolee shot Jimmy, oh, little Jimmy Brown
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At the Roadway Motel, gunned that boy down
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He a bad man, old Stagolee

♫ Verse 2:
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You see, Jimmy loved a girl, a little girl named Valentine
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They grew up on the hill, there in the low-rise
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Next door to old Stagolee
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But Jimmy grew up in the bottoms, boy, and everybody knows
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That folks from the bottoms and the hill don't get along
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No one much liked Stagolee

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So the folks down in the bottoms said, "Boy, don't get yourself killed
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Ain't there plenty girls down here? Why chase one up the hill?
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You watch out for old Stagolee."
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But Jimmy said, "Come on, don't give me none of that shit
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You know little Jimmy Brown ain't afraid of no son of a bitch
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Oh, not even Stagolee."

♫ Verse 4:
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One night, Jimmy shootin' dice, down at the Roadways
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Outside Room 22, down the breezeway
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And up walked old Stagolee
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But Jimmy shootin' fire, throwin' seven in the air
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Eleven, eleven, oh seven, come again
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So he never saw old Stagolee

♫ Verse 5:
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I wasn't there, but I did hear the shots
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And by the time I arrived, the place was crawling with cops
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Though I did see old Stagolee
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Out in back of the motel, all alone in his car
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Went around the turnpike, sneaked past the graveyard
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Aw, that goddamn Stagolee
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So I stayed out of sight till he rolled away
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I don't need nobody thinkin' that I saw a thing
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Aw, especially not Stagolee

♫ Verse 6:
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One shot fired, and one man dead
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Was no fightin', not one word said
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Yeah, he's a bad man, Stagolee
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So this story done been told
Time and time again
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Same old means, same old end
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Same old Stagolee