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Stackerlee

by Alice Stuart

on All the Good Times (1964)

I remember one September on a Friday night
Stackerlee and Billy Lyons had a great big fight
He's a bad man, cruel Stackerlee

You may talk about gamblers, should see old Richard Lee
Shot a hundred dollars, come out on a three
He's a bad man, cruel Stackerlee

Stacky says to Billy: "You can't play like that
You won all my money, now you won my Stetson hat"
You're a bad man, cruel Stackerlee

Well Billy he shot six pips, Stacky bet he past
Stacky hauled his Forty Five he says: "you done shot your last"
He's a bad man, cruel Stackerlee

Oh Mister Stackerlee please don't take my life
I've got three children and a darling loving wife
You're a bad man, cruel Stackerlee

Well God'll take care of your children and I'l take care of your wife
You done took my Stetson I'm gonna take your life
You're a bad man...

Then a woman come a-running, fell upon her knees
Oh Mister Stackerlee don't shoot my brother please
You're a bad man, cruel Stackerlee

Then the woman said to the Sheriff "How can this be
You arrest everybody but you're scared of Stackerlee"
He's a bad man...

Judge he said to the Sheriff: "I want him dead or alive"
"How in hell gonna bring him in, he totes a Forty Five"
He's a bad man, cruel Stackerlee

Stacky said to the jailer: "Jailer I can't sleep
All around my bedside, Billy Lyons begings to creep"
He's a bad man, cruel Stackerlee

Two o'clock next Tuesday, on a scaffold high
People coming from miles around just watch old Stackerlee die
He's a bad man, cruel Stackerlee

Now way down in New Orleans, there's a place called Lyon's club
Every step you step you steppin' in a Billy Lyons blood
He's a bad man, that cruel Stackerlee
Yes a bad man