Stay All Night Chords

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Stay All Night by Bob Wills is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer) 
By Bob Wills & Tommy Duncan 
As performed by Willie Nelson on 1973 Atlantic Record, Shotgun Willie 
(my key) 
 
Stay All Night 
 
verse 1 
Intro:  built around A chord + hammer on 4th string at 4th fret, E chord 
hammer on 5th string at 4th fret.   
 
(A)Can't go home if you're going by the mill 
 
Cause the(E) bridge' washed out at the bottom of the hill 
 
(A)Big Creek's up, Little Creek's level, 
 
(E)Plow my corn with a double shovel 
 
Chorus 
(A)Stay all night, stay a little longer 
(E)Dance all night, dance a little longer 
(A)Pull off your coat, throw it in the corner 
(E)Don't see why you can't stay a little longer. 
v2 
Sitting in the window, singing to my love 
Slop bucket fell from the window up above 
Mule and the grasshopper eatin ice cream 
mule got sick, so they laid him on the green 
v3 
You ought to see my Blue Eyed Sally 
She lives way down on Shinbone Alley 
Number on the gate, the number on the door 
The next house over is the grocery store. 
 
additional verse from live performance 
Grab your partner, pat her on the head 
If she don't like biscuits, feed her cornbread 
Girls around Big Creek, 'bout half grown 
Jump on a man like a dog on a bone 
 
 

    	

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