Name: Stackalee
Duration: P00H05M02S
Description: A version of a traditional song, of how ‘Stag’ Lee Shelton killed Billy De Lyons. There have been many variants of the name, a song called "Stack-a-Lee" was first mentioned in 1897 and the first recorded version was in 1923

Stackalee

from Seven Devils by The Wattingers

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A version of a traditional song, of how ‘Stag’ Lee Shelton killed Billy De Lyons. There have been many variants of the name, a song called "Stack-a-Lee" was first mentioned in 1897 and the first recorded version was in 1923

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Stackalee was a bad man, everybody knows Spent a hundred dollars for just one suit of clothes. Stackalee loaded cotton, weighed five hundred pounds, carried along a Gatling gun, that drug him to the ground
It was in a hustling b joint where the Mississippi run, Stackalee killed Billy de Lyons with a smoking forty one. Billy was in the card house and kneeling on the floor Stackalee pulled the trigger of his red-hot forty-four
Billy died in the sawdust, with his head upon the rail, deputy took old Stackalee and he marched him off to jail. Gentlemen of the jury, what do you think about that? Stackalee killed Billy de Lyons about a five dollar Stetson hat
The judge said, Mr. Stackalee, Mr. Stackalee I'm gonna hang your body up and set your spirit free.
Stackalee on his gallows, his head way up high Twelve o'clock we killed him, I was so glad to see him die

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from Seven Devils, released May 20, 2022

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