Stackolee Lyrics

The song Stackolee is performed by Mississippi John Hurt in the album named D.C. Blues: Library of Congress Recordings in the year 2004 .



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



Mississippi John Hurt - D.C. Blues: Library of Congress Recordings

May 2004

  1. Richlands Women Blues
  2. Frankie and Albert
  3. Trouble I've Had All My Day
  4. Pera-Lee
  5. Stockwell
  6. Got the Blues That Can't Be Satisfied
  7. Talking Casey Jones
  8. Stackolee
  9. Slidin' Delta
  10. Corrina, Corrina
  11. Hey, Baby, Right Away
  12. Pallet on the Floor
  13. Waiting for a Train
  14. Spanish Flangdang
  15. Shortenin' Bread
  16. Oh Mary Don't You Weep
  17. Do Lord Remember Me
  18. Over in the Glory Land
  19. Glory Glory Hallelujah
  20. What a Friend We Have in Jesus
  21. Where Shall I Be
  22. Weeping and Waiting
  23. Joe Turner
  24. If You Don't Want Me [Version #2]
  25. Rubber Dolly
  26. Keep Me Knockin' (You Can't Come In)

Stackolee