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Stackolee (Stagger Lee) - Woody Guthrie
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Stagolee was a bad man, ev'rybody knows.
Spent one hundred dollars just to buy him a suit of clothes.
He was a bad man that mean old Stagolee
Stagolee loaded cotton weighed five-hundred pounds,
Carried along a Gatlin gun drug him to the ground.
He was a bad man that mean old Stagolee.
It was in a hustling B joint where the Mississipi run
Stagolee killed Billy De Lyons with a smoky forty-one.
He was a bad man that mean old Stagolee.
Gentlemen of the jury what do you think about that?
Stagolee killed Billy De Lyons about a five dollar Stetson hat.
He was a bad man that mean old Stagolee.
Billy de Lyons said, Stagolee please don't take my life
I've got two little babes and a darling, loving wife;
He was a bad man that mean old Stagolee.
What do I care about your two little babes, your darling loving wife?,
You done stole my Stetson hat I'm bound to take your life;
He was a bad man that mean old Stagolee.
Billy was in the courthouse a-kneeling on the floor
Stagolee pulled the trigger of his red hot forty-four.
He was a bad man that mean old Stagolee.
The high sheriff asked the deputy How can it be?
You can arrest everybody but you scare of Stagolee?
He was a bad man that mean old Stagolee.
The deputy told the new sheriff ,Well, double up my fee
I'll go get that outlaw by the name of Stagolee.
He was a bad man that mean old Stagolee.
Billy died in the sawdust with his head upon the rail
Deputy took old Stagolee and he marched him off to jail.
He was a bad man that mean old Stagolee.
The judge said, Stagolee,Mister Stagolee,
I'm gonna hang your body up and set you spirit free.
He was a bad man that mean old Stagolee.
Stagolee on the gallus his head way up high
Last thing that poor boy said,"My six-shooter never lied."
He was a bad man that mean old Stagolee.
Twelve o' clock they killed him, his head reached up high
On Saturday we hanged him, we were all glad to see him die.
He was a bad man that mean old Stagolee.
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