Key: A minor
Verse 1
I often beat around these parts
taking names and breaking hearts
about a mack called Stagger Leaf
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The baddest motherfucker
from a town called St. Louis
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Well I was caught blood
and found myself glass
I was down on my luck,
girl threw me out of my ass
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She didn't believe me when I said
my cheating days are in
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the past!
There I saw a man.
Far across his face,
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His name was Billy Lyons,
He'd come in looking for a fight.
You knew shit was going
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down.
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that done got his attention
The whole damn place went quiet,
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you could smell and taste the tension
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I hid my pistol in my sleeve
until I knew what was up
But Billy's eyes flashed red,
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he called my goddamn bluff
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shot him in the head.
Reached on down,
picked up my hat
and put it straight back on.
That was the last you'd
see of Stagger Lee
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if you ever take a trip
If you see old Stagger Lee,
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you best shoot from the hip
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and the rhythm is a six.
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Thank for
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