Stack-O-Lee

[00:01.43] Stack-O-Lee 3: 57 Trk 10
[00:02.40] Champion Jack Dupree
[00:02.63] Jack Dupree - vocal & piano
[00:03.10] Ennis Lowry - guitar
[00:03.52] Wendell Marshall - bass, Willie Jones - drums.
[00:04.03] Album: 'Blues From The Gutter'
[00:04.94] Transcriber: [email protected]
[00:05.64] Stag-o-Lee and Billy Lyons
[00:21.91] They was gamblin' in the dark
[00:26.06] Stag-o-Lee told Billy
[00:29.58] 'Billy Lyons, lets take a walk'
[00:32.56] Stag-o-Lee, won Billy Lyon's money
[00:40.29] And he took Billy Lyon's Stetson hat
[00:44.27] Billy Lyons said, 'Stag-o-Lee
[00:46.95] 'Lord, why'd you do me like that?'
[00:50.28] Now, Billy Lyons begged Stag-o-Lee
[00:56.74] Said, 'Please give me back my hat'
[01:00.62] 'Cause you know you won my money
[01:04.12] Please don't take my hat'
[01:07.88] Now, Billy Lyons said to Stag-o-Lee
[01:13.27] Said, 'Please, please don't take my life
[01:19.24] I've got two little children
[01:22.26] And a po' little homeless wife'
[01:25.75] (sax & instrumental)
[01:26.94] Billy Lyons said to Stag-o-Lee
[02:08.90] 'Why'd you do your friend like that?'
[02:12.46] Say, 'You won all my money
[02:15.41] And you took my Stetson hat'
[02:20.57] Stag-o-Lee shot Billy Lyon
[02:26.63] And he fell down on his knees
[02:31.08] He said, 'Lord, have mercy
[02:34.91] Lord, have mercy if you please
[02:38.24] Stag-o-Lee run to the corner
[02:45.12] And he look up and down
[02:49.51] Said, 'I'd rather see you, Billy
[02:53.06] Six feet in the ground'
[02:56.76] Now, the people start to weepin'
[03:03.25] And some of them begin to moan
[03:03.25] Ev'rybody was worried
[03:07.77] 'Bout po' Billy Lyons was gone
[03:14.22] Te-na, te-na-na
[03:18.89] Te-na, na-ne-na
[03:21.13] Te-na, na-na-na
[03:22.32] Te-na, ne-na, ne-na
[03:23.27] Say, I want Louis
[03:40.99] Armstrong and his band
[03:41.30] To play the blues
[03:43.91] As they lay my body down
[03:45.72] I want 10, 000 women
[03:48.32] To be at my buryin' ground.
[03:51.30] ~
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