Stack O'Lee

Police officer, how can it be?
 You can 'rest everybody but cruel Stack O' Lee
 That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O' Lee
 Billy de Lyon told Stack O' Lee, "Please don't take my life
 I got two little babies, and a darlin' lovin' wife"
 That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O' Lee
 "What I care about you little babies, your darlin' lovin' wife?
 You done stole my Stetson1 hat, I'm bound to take your life"
 That bad man, cruel Stack O' Lee
 With the forty-four
 When I spied Billy de Lyon, he was lyin' down on the floor
 That bad man, oh cruel Stack O' Lee
 "Gentleman's of the jury, what do you think of that?
 Stack O' Lee killed Billy de Lyon about a five-dollar Stetson hat"
 That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O' Lee
 And all they gathered, hands way up high
 At twelve o'clock they killed him, they's all glad to see him die
 That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O' Lee