Stack-O-Lee

Stack-O-Lee and Billy Lyon

They was gamblin'

In the dark

Stack-O-Lee told Billy

Billy Lyon let's take a walk

Stack-O-Lee won Billy Lyon money

And he took Billy Lyon's stetson hat

Billy Lyon say Stack-O-Lee

Lord what you do me like that

Now Billy Lyon

Begged Stack-O-Lee

Said please give me back my hat

'Cause you know you won my money

Please don't take my hat

Now Billy Lyon

Said to Stack-O-Lee

Said please

Please don't take my life

I got two little children

And a poor little homeless wife

Billy Lyon said to Stack-O-Lee

Would you do your friend like that

Say you won all my money

And you took my stetson hat

Stack-O-Lee

Shot Billy Lyon

And he fell down on his knees

He said Lord have mercy

Lord have mercy if you please

Stack-O-Lee

Run to the corner

And he look up and down

Said I'd rather see you Billy

Six feet in the ground

Now the people start to weepin'

And some of them begin to moan

Everybody was worried

'Bout poor Billy Lyon was gone

Teena teena na, teena na ni na

Teena na na, teena ni na ni na

Say I want Louis

Armstrong and his band

To play the blues as they lay my body down

I want ten thousand women

To be at my buryin' ground