Stackolee Songtext
von Lemon Nash

I was laying in bed was a sleeping
When my bulldog barked
On his tagline Billy Lyon
Was gambling in the dark
Billy Lyon throwed seven
Stagger Lee swore that he throwed craps
He said, "Billy I can′t let you go
I can't let you go with that"

Stagger Lee went running
Down that railroad track
Said, "Billy Lyon don′t be here boy
When I get back"


Stagger Lee walked into that ballroom
Stood right in the middle of the door
Said, "Don't nobody move
'Cause I′ve got my forty-four"
Stagger Lee shot that poor boy lay
He shot that poor boy so fast
He punched sixteen holes
In that ballroom glass

Stagger Lee went running
Fell in his mama door
Said, "Please call up the ambulance
I′m shot with a police forty-four"

When the women's all got that sad message
That bad man Stagger Lee was dead
Some was dressing blue and pink and
Some of those women dressed in red
Was a million dollar casket
And a thousand dollar hearse
Going to see poor Stagger Lee be buried
Six feet in the earth

When the preacher said, "Dust to dust, ashes to ashes
Waiting for the resurrection of the dead"
Right ′cross Stagger Lee coffin
The woman that loved him she dropped dead


I'm gonna tell all you gamblers
Something you must understand
Don′t let your tongue say nothing
That your head can't stand