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Thread #3018   Message #19007
Posted By: Gene
10-Jan-98 - 01:47 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Stagger Lee / Stack O'Lee / etc.
Subject: Lyr Add: STAG O'LEE
Here is one of many versions of STAG O'LEE
From "THE WORLD's FAVORITE HOOTENANNY Sing Along Songs"
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It was early, early one morning
When I heard my bulldog bark
Stag O'Lee and Billy Lyons
Was squabblin' in the dark.

Refrain: A mean one was he, Stag O'Lee!

Stag O'Lee, he told Billy Lyons
Tell me why you be like that?
You win all my money, Bill
You win my Stetson hat.

Refrain:

Stag O'Lee, he went out a-walkin'
In the red-hot broiling sun
Went and shot poor Billy Lyons
With his old forty-one.

Refrain:

Billy Lyons, he had a fam'ly
Wife and kids, a nice, neat flat
Stag O'Lee made Missus Lyons
A widow dressed in black.

Refrain:

Thousand dollars, that was the bounty
For a noose 'round Stag O'Lee
They are aiming for to hang him
The devil still goes free.

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