Stack A Lee

Intro: 
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Hawlin Alley on a dark and drizzly night, 
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  Billy Lyons and Stack-A-Lee had one terrible fight. 
                               C 
All about that John B. Stetson hat. 
 

 
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Stack-A-Lee walked to the bar-room, and he called for a glass of beer, 
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  Turned around to Billy Lyons, said, "What are you doin' here?" 
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"Waitin' for a train, please bring my woman home. 
 

 
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"Stack-A-Lee, oh Stack-A-Lee, please don't take my life. 
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  Got three little children and a-weepin', lovin' wife. 
                                   C 
You're a bad man, bad man, Stack-A-Lee." 
 

 
     C 
"God bless your children and I'll take care of your wife. 
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  You stole my John B., now I'm bound to take your life." 
                               C 
All about that John B. Stetson hat. 
 

 
C 
Stack-A-Lee turned to Billy Lyons and he shot him right through the head, 
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Only taking one shot to kill Billy Lyons dead. 
                               C 
All about that John B. Stetson hat 
 

 
             C 
Sent for the doctor, well the doctor he did come, 
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  Just pointed out Stack-A-Lee, said, "Now what have you done? 
                                   C 
You're a bad man, bad man, Stack-A-Lee." 
 

 
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Six big horses and a rubber-tired hack, 
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  Taking him to the cemetery, but they failed to bring him back. 
                               C 
All about that John B. Stetson hat. 
 

Interlude: 
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Hawlin Alley, thought I heard the bulldogs bark- 
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  It must have been old Stack-A-Lee stumbling in the dark. 
                                             C 
He's a bad man, gonna land him right back in jail. 
 

 
C 
High police walked on to Stack-A-Lee, he was lying fast asleep. 
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  High police catched Stack-A-Lee, and he jumped forty feet. 
                                             C 
He's a bad man, gonna land him right back in jail. 
 

 
          C 
Well they got old Stack-A-Lee and they laid him right back in jail. 
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  Couldn't get a man around to go Stack-A-Lee's bail. 
                               C 
All about that John B. Stetson hat. 
 

 
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Stack-A-Lee turned to the jailer, he said,"Jailer, I can't sleep. 
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  'Round my bedside Billy Lyons began to creep." 
                               C 
All about that John B. Stetson hat. 
 

Outro: 
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