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Artist: Mississippi John Hurt
Canonical path: /mississippi-john-hurt/stack-o-lee-blues
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Stack O'lee Blues
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Stack O'lee Blues
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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 Stetson
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
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Mississippi John Hurt performs "Stack O'lee Blues", and this lyric page sits inside the Mississippi John Hurt catalog on LyroVerse.
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