Police officer
How can it be?
You can arrest everybody
But cruel Stagger Lee
That bad man
Oh cruel Stagger Lee
Billy DeLyon told Stagger Lee
Please don’t take my life
I got two little babes
And a darling, loving wife
That bad man
Oh cruel Stagger Lee
What do I care about your two little babes
And a darling loving wife?
You done stole my Stetson hat
I’m bound to take your life
That bad man
Oh cruel Stagger Lee
Boom boom, boom boom
Went a fourty-four
Well when I spied Billy DeLyon
He’s lying down on the floor
That bad man
Oh cruel Stagger Lee
Gentlemens of the jury
What you think of that?
Stagger Lee killed Billy DeLyon
‘Bout a five dollar Stetson hat.
That bad man
Oh cruel Stagger Lee
Standing on the gallows
Head way up high,
At twelve o’clock, they killed him
We was all glad to see him die
That bad man
Oh cruel Stagger Lee
Filed under: John Hurt's Stagger Lee, My Journal, Show Notes & Song References
