Lyrics Stagger Lee - Tim O'Brien, Mollie O'Brien

Stagger Lee - Tim O'Brien, Mollie O'Brien
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

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