Stackalee

Dickie Bishop, Lonnie Donegan's Skiffle Group

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Dickie Bishop


Year:
2009
3:12
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Stackolee was a bad man, everybody knows 
Spent a hundred dollars for just one suit of clothes 
He was a bad man, that mean old Stackolee 

Stackolee loaded cotton, weighed five hundred pounds 
Carried along a Gatling gun, that drug him to the ground 
He was a bad man, that mean old Stackolee 

It was in a hustling b joint where the Mississippi run 
Stackolee killed Billy de Lyons with a smoking forty one 
He was a bad man, that mean old Stackolee 

The high sheriff asked the deputy, how can it be 
You can arrest everybody, but the mean old Stackolee
He's a bad man, that mean old Stackolee

And the deputy told the new sheriff, double up my fee
And I'll go get that outlaw, by the name of Stackolee 
'Cause he's a bad man, that mean old Stackolee

Gentlemen of the jury, what do you think about that
Stackolee killed Billy de Lyons about a five dollar Stetson hat 
He was a bad man, that mean old Stackolee 

Billy was in the card house and kneeling on the floor 
Stackolee pulled the trigger of his red-hot forty-four 
He was a bad man, that mean old Stackolee 

Billy said to Stackolee, please don't take my life 
I've got three little babes and a darling loving wife 
You're a bad man, your name is Stackolee 

What do I care about your two little babes, your darling loving wife
You done stole my brand new hat and I'm bound to take your life 
'Cause you're a bad man, and my name is Stackolee 

Billy died in the sawdust, with his head upon the rail 
Deputy took old Stackolee and he marched him off to jail 
He was a bad man, that mean old Stackolee 

The judge said, Mr. Stackolee, Mr. Stackolee 
I'm gonna hang your body up and set your spirit free 
'Cause you're a bad man, your name is Stackolee

Stackolee on his gallows, his head way up high 
Twelve o'clock we killed him, was all glad to see him die 
He was a bad man, that mean old Stackolee 
He was a bad man, that mean old Stackolee

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