Same Old Stagolee chords by Justin Townes Earle

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: G

♫ Verse 1:
E
Up Chestnut Hill, down on Murfreesboro Pines
A                                                E
He set up on the low-rise, slinging nickels and dimes
     B7                 E
He a bad man, old Stagolee
E
It was Stagolee shot Jimmy, oh, little Jimmy Brown
A                                      E
At the Roadway Motel, gunned that boy down
     B7                 E
He a bad man, old Stagolee

♫ Verse 2:
E
You see, Jimmy loved a girl, a little girl named Valentine
A                                           E
They grew up on the hill, there in the low-rise
     B7                E
Next door to old Stagolee
E
But Jimmy grew up in the bottoms, boy, and everybody knows
A                                                   E
That folks from the bottoms and the hill don't get along
  B7                    E
No one much liked Stagolee

♫ Verse 3:
E
So the folks down in the bottoms said, "Boy, don't get yourself killed
A                                                         E
Ain't there plenty girls down here? Why chase one up the hill?
    B7                      E
You watch out for old Stagolee."
E
But Jimmy said, "Come on, don't give me none of that shit
A                                                        E
You know little Jimmy Brown ain't afraid of no son of a bitch
    B7             E
Oh, not even Stagolee."

♫ Verse 4:
E
One night, Jimmy shootin' dice, down at the Roadways
A                                 E
Outside Room 22, down the breezeway
    B7                  E
And up walked old Stagolee
E
But Jimmy shootin' fire, throwin' seven in the air
A                                 E
Eleven, eleven, oh seven, come again
   B7                     E
So he never saw old Stagolee

♫ Verse 5:
E
I wasn't there, but I did hear the shots
A                                                      E
And by the time I arrived, the place was crawling with cops
         B7                E
Though I did see old Stagolee
E
Out in back of the motel, all alone in his car
A                                           E
Went around the turnpike, sneaked past the graveyard
         B7            E
Aw, that goddamn Stagolee
E
So I stayed out of sight till he rolled away
A                                         E
I don't need nobody thinkin' that I saw a thing
        B7               E
Aw, especially not Stagolee

♫ Verse 6:
E
One shot fired, and one man dead
A                              E
Was no fightin', not one word said
             B7             E
Yeah, he's a bad man, Stagolee
E
So this story done been told
Time and time again
A                        E
Same old means, same old end
B7             E
Same old Stagolee