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- Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O’Lee Blues Lyrics
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- Police officer, how can it be?
- You can 'rest everybody but cruel Stack O' Lee
- That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O' Lee
- Billy de Lyon told Stack O' Lee, "Please don't take my life,
- I got two little babies, and a darlin' lovin' wife"
- That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O' Lee
- "What I care about you little babies, your darlin' lovin' wife?
- You done stole my Stetson1 hat, I'm bound to take your life"
- That bad man, cruel Stack O' Lee
- ...with the forty-four
- When I spied Billy de Lyon, he was lyin' down on the floor
- That bad man, oh cruel Stack O' Lee
- "Gentleman's of the jury, what do you think of that?
- Stack O' Lee killed Billy de Lyon about a five-dollar Stetson hat"
- That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O' Lee
- And all they gathered, hands way up high,
- at twelve o'clock they killed him, they's all glad to see him die
- That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O' Lee
- __________
- Note: Stack O' Lee or Stagolee, read more about this folk figure;
- Note 1: the name Stetson is itself a trademark for a certain kind of broad-brimmed high-crowned felt hat from a specific manufacturer. In general it's used for a certain type of hat, a "cowboy hat".
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