Stackalee

Stackalee Lyrics

Song Stackalee
Artist Frank Hutchison
Album Anthology of American Folk Music
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[00:14.56] Hawlin Alley one dark and drizzly night
[00:19.08] Billy Lyons and Stack-A-Lee
[00:20.65] had one terrible fight
[00:22.55] All about that John B. Stetson Hat.
[00:28.31] Stack-A-Lee walked to the bar-room
[00:31.33] and he called for a glass of beer
[00:33.67] Turned around to Billy Lyons,
[00:35.58] said "What-a you doin' here ?"
[00:37.21] "Waitin' for a train to bring my woman home."
[00:42.54] "Stack-A-Lee, oh Stack-A-Lee
[00:45.58] please don't take my life
[00:48.03] I've got three little children
[00:49.75] and a weepin', loving wife
[00:51.52] You're a bad man, bad man Stack-A-Lee."
[00:57.48] "God bless your children
[00:59.63] and I'll take care of your wife
[01:01.83] You stole my John B., now
[01:03.11] I'm bound to take your life"
[01:04.91] All about that John B. Stetson Hat.
[01:11.16] Stack-A-Lee turned to Billy Lyons
[01:14.02] and shot him right through the head
[01:16.21] Only taking one shot to kill Billy Lyons dead
[01:20.03] All about that John B. Stetson Hat.
[01:25.71] Sent for the doctor,
[01:27.57] well the doctor he did come
[01:30.00] Just pointed out Stack-A-Lee,
[01:31.71] said, "Now what have you done ?"
[01:33.40] You're a bad man, bad man Stack-A-Lee.
[01:37.46] Six big horses
[01:41.15] and a rubber-tired hack
[01:44.02] Taking him to the cemetery,
[01:45.85] but they failed to bring him back
[01:47.52] All about that John B. Stetson Hat.
[01:52.54] Hawlin Alley, thought I heard the bulldogs bark
[01:58.66] It must have been old Stack-A-Lee
[02:00.49] stumbling in the dark
[02:02.00] He's a bad man, gonna land him right back in jail.
[02:06.79] High police walked on to Stack-A-Lee,
[02:12.42] he was lying fast asleep
[02:15.15] High police catched Stack-A-Lee,
[02:17.15] and he jumped forty feet
[02:18.54] He's a bad man, gonna land
[02:20.51] him right back in jail.
[02:24.21] Well they got old Stack-A-Lee,
[02:25.76] and they led him right back in jail
[02:28.23] Couldn't get a man around
[02:29.77] to go Stack-A-Lee's bail
[02:31.52] All about that John B. Stetson Hat.
[02:37.04] Stack-A-Lee said to the jailer,
[02:39.43] "Jailer, I can't sleep
[02:41.36] 'Round my bedside Billy Lyons begin to creep"
[02:44.61] All about that John B. Stetson Hat.
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