Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Stagger Lee, artist - Tim O'Brien. Album song Remember Me, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 31.08.1992
Record label: Concord, Sugar Hill
Song language: English
Stagger Lee |
It was over a hundred years ago in eighteen sixty-one |
It was in the town of St. Louis that old Stagger Lee was born |
Stagger Lee was a gambler and everybody knew his name |
He made his living singing high low jack and a game |
It was in the month of December on a cold and rainy night |
Stagger Lee and Billy Bly got in an awful fight |
I was standing on the corner when I heard my bulldog bark |
Barking at the two men gambling there in the dark |
He was a bad man, talk about a bad man |
Such a bad man, mean old Stagger Lee |
Stagger Lee and Billy two men who gambled late |
Stagger Lee threw seven and Billy swore he threw eight |
Stagger Lee told Billy I can’t let you go with that |
You took all my money and my brand new Stetson hat |
Stagger Lee he turned around and headed down the railroad track |
Told Billy you better be gone from here by the time that I get back |
Stagger Lee he went on home and he loaded his fourty-four |
Said I’m going to the bar room to pay a debt I owe |
Stag went down to the bar room and then stood on the bar room floor |
And said nobody move and then he drew his blue steel fourty-four |
Billy cried oh Stag oh Stag oh please don’t take my life |
I got two little children and a darling lovin’wife |
Stag said bless your children said goddamn your wife |
You took my magic Stetson now I’m gonna take your life |
Stagger Lee shot the bullet killed Billy oh so fast |
Went straight through the heart, then it broke that looking glass |
I never saw a sight before like the one when the smoke did clear |
Billy was lying in a pool of whiskey, diamonds, blood, and beer |
Stag had a magic Stetson but I guess it lost its power |
Cause they took him to the gallows to await his final hour |