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Stay All Night Stay A Little Longer

Bob Wills

Written by Bob Wills, Tommy Duncan

Key of G · Chords: I V

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Verse 1

G
You ought to see my Blue Eyed Sally
                      D7       G
She lives way down on Shinbone Alley

Verse 2

Number on the gate the number on the door
                           D7      G
The next house over is the grocery store

Verse 3

Stay all night stay a little longer
D7
Dance all night dance a little longer
G
Pull off your coat throw it in the corner
D7                           G
Don't see why you can't stay a little longer

Verse 4

Can't go home if you're going by the mill
                                   D7            G
Cause the bridge washed out at the bottom of the hill

Verse 5

Big Creek's up Little Creek's level
                  D7       G
Plow my corn with a double shovel

Verse 2

Number on the gate the number on the door
                           D7      G
The next house over is the grocery store

Verse 6

Sitting in the window singing to my love
                          D7        G
Slop bucket fell from the window up above

Verse 7

Mule and the grasshopper eating ice cream
                           D7         G
Mule got sick so they laid him on the beam

Verse 2

Number on the gate the number on the door
                           D7      G
The next house over is the grocery store

Verse 8

Grab your partner pat her on the head
                           D7       G
If she don't like biscuits feed her cornbread

Verse 9

Girls around Big Creek about half grown
                         D7   G
Jump on a man like a dog on a bone