Stagger Lee

The night was clear

And the moon was yellow

And the leaves came tumbling down

I was standing on the corner

When I heard my bulldog bark

And he was barkin' up at two men

Who were gamblin' in the dark

It was Stagger Lee and Billy

Two men who gambled late

Stagger Lee threw seven,

Billy swore that he threw eight

Stagger Lee told Billy,

"I can't let you get away with that",

"Well you have won all my money

And my brand new Stetson hat"

Stagger Lee he ran home

Went and he got his forty-four

Said "I'm goin' to the barroom

Just to pay that debt I owe"

Go Stagger Lee

Go Stagger Lee

Go Stagger Lee

Go Stagger Lee

Said "I'm goin' to the barroom

Just to pay that debt I owe"

Stagger Lee went to the barroom

He stood across the barroom door

He said "Now nobody move"

And he pulled his forty-four

"Stagger Lee" cried Billy,

"Oh please don't you take my life."

"I got me three little children

And a very sickly wife."

Go Stagger Lee

Go Stagger Lee

Go Stagger Lee

Go Stagger Lee

"I got me three little children

And a very sickly wife"

Stagger Lee shot Billy,

Oh he shot that poor boy so bad

Till the bullet came through Billy

And went right through

The bartender's glass

While I was standing on the corner

When I heard my bulldog bark

And he was barkin' up at two men

Who were gamblin' in the dark

Go Baby

Go Stagger Lee

Go Stagger Lee

Go Stagger Lee

Go Stagger Lee

And he was barkin' up at two men

Who were gamblin' in the dark

Go Stagger Lee

Go Stagger Lee

Go Stagger Lee

Go Stagger Lee

Said "I'm goin' to the barroom

Just to pay that debt I owe"