Stacker Lee was a bad man,
He spent about a hundred dollars
just buying one suit of clothes
that mean old Stack -A -Lee
There was old Stack -A -Lee
and a fella named Billy the Lion
They were fightin' out there
pulled the trigger of his smokin' .44
He was a bad man, that mean old Stackelly
Please don't take my life
Cause you know I got two little babies,
And a real darling of a wife
what I care about you two little babes
What I care about you, darling of a wife
you done throwed my sticks in the hat
I'm bound to take your life
went on ahead and he killed Billy
So they took him down to the jailhouse,
put him in there and let him
Then they took him up to court,
this is what the judge told him
Mr. Stackley, Mr. Stackley
I'm gonna hang your buddy up
Cos I'm a bad man, my name is Staggerly
With his head held way up high
Round twelve o 'clock we killed him
And I was so glad to see him die
that mean old Stacker Lee
that mean old Stacker Lee