Stack-O-Lee

Stack-O-Lee 3: 57 Trk 10
 Champion Jack Dupree
 Jack Dupree - vocal & piano
 Ennis Lowry - guitar
 Wendell Marshall - bass, Willie Jones - drums.
 Album: 'Blues From The Gutter'
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 Stag-o-Lee and Billy Lyons
 They was gamblin' in the dark
 Stag-o-Lee told Billy
 'Billy Lyons, lets take a walk'
 Stag-o-Lee, won Billy Lyon's money
 And he took Billy Lyon's Stetson hat
 Billy Lyons said, 'Stag-o-Lee
 'Lord, why'd you do me like that?'
 Now, Billy Lyons begged Stag-o-Lee
 Said, 'Please give me back my hat'
 'Cause you know you won my money
 Please don't take my hat'
 Now, Billy Lyons said to Stag-o-Lee
 Said, 'Please, please don't take my life
 I've got two little children
 And a po' little homeless wife'
 (sax & instrumental)
 Billy Lyons said to Stag-o-Lee
 'Why'd you do your friend like that?'
 Say, 'You won all my money
 And you took my Stetson hat'
 Stag-o-Lee shot Billy Lyon
 And he fell down on his knees
 He said, 'Lord, have mercy
 Lord, have mercy if you please
 Stag-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
 Ev'rybody was worried
 'Bout po' Billy Lyons was gone
 Te-na, te-na-na
 Te-na, na-ne-na
 Te-na, na-na-na
 Te-na, ne-na, ne-na
 Say, I want Louis
 Armstrong and his band
 To play the blues
 As they lay my body down
 I want 10, 000 women
 To be at my buryin' ground.
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