Stagger Lee (Live)
I was standin' on the corner
When I heard my bull dog bark
He was barkin' at the two men
Who was gamblin' in the dark
It was Stagger Lee and Billy Lyons
Two men who liked to gambled late
Stagger Lee threw a seven
Billy swore that he threw an eight
Stagger won Billy
Aw you ought to know better than that
You have won all my massed money
And now you got my Cadillac
Stagger Lee told Billy
(????) walk down the railroad track
I ain't tricking you Billy buddy
But one of us is going to make it back
Stagger lee went on home
Got out his trusted Forty Four
Said I'm going down to the Lone Star
To take up that debt that I owe
Stagger Lee went to the bar room
Lord and he threw open the bar room doors
Said, now, nobody move
I've got y'all covered with my forty four
Billy Lyons (?) that
Said now please don't take my life
I've got three little children
And a very shapely wife
Stagger Lee shot Billy
He shot that boy so fast
Bullet went through Billy Lyons
And it broke the bartender's glass
Well the police shot Stag
Well they shot Stag in his side
Stager Lee went stumbling to his mother do and die
When all the ladies heard about Stag
Heard that Stagger Lee was dead
Some come dressed in Orange colors
Some came dressed in red
Now the people heard a mighty rumbling
A mighty rumbling under the ground
See that must be that bad assed Stag
Turning Billy upside down
Now Stag went to the devil
To identify poor Billy's soul
The poor boy he was absent
He had burned down to charcoal
Tina na na.
When I heard my bull dog bark
He was barkin' at the two men
Who was gamblin' in the dark
It was Stagger Lee and Billy Lyons
Two men who liked to gambled late
Stagger Lee threw a seven
Billy swore that he threw an eight
Stagger won Billy
Aw you ought to know better than that
You have won all my massed money
And now you got my Cadillac
Stagger Lee told Billy
(????) walk down the railroad track
I ain't tricking you Billy buddy
But one of us is going to make it back
Stagger lee went on home
Got out his trusted Forty Four
Said I'm going down to the Lone Star
To take up that debt that I owe
Stagger Lee went to the bar room
Lord and he threw open the bar room doors
Said, now, nobody move
I've got y'all covered with my forty four
Billy Lyons (?) that
Said now please don't take my life
I've got three little children
And a very shapely wife
Stagger Lee shot Billy
He shot that boy so fast
Bullet went through Billy Lyons
And it broke the bartender's glass
Well the police shot Stag
Well they shot Stag in his side
Stager Lee went stumbling to his mother do and die
When all the ladies heard about Stag
Heard that Stagger Lee was dead
Some come dressed in Orange colors
Some came dressed in red
Now the people heard a mighty rumbling
A mighty rumbling under the ground
See that must be that bad assed Stag
Turning Billy upside down
Now Stag went to the devil
To identify poor Billy's soul
The poor boy he was absent
He had burned down to charcoal
Tina na na.
Credits
Writer(s): Lloyd Price, Harold Logan
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