Honeydripper movie - Stack O Lee lyrics

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Song by Keb' Mo'<br /><br>

Police officer, how can it be? <br>

You can 'rest everybody but cruel Stack O' Lee <br>

That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O' Lee <br>

Billy de Lyon told Stack O' Lee, "Please don't take my life, <br>

I got two little babies, and a darlin' lovin' wife" <br>

That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O' Lee <br>

"What I care about you little babies, your darlin' lovin' wife? <br>

You done stole my Stetson <br>

hat, I'm bound to take your life" <br>

That bad man, cruel Stack O' Lee <br>

...with the forty-four <br>

When I spied Billy de Lyon, he was lyin' down on the floor <br>

That bad man, oh cruel Stack O' Lee <br>

"Gentleman's of the jury, what do you think of that? <br>

Stack O' Lee killed Billy de Lyon about a five-dollar Stetson hat" <br>

That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O' Lee <br>

And all they gathered, hands way up high, <br>

at twelve o'clock they killed him, they's all glad to see him die <br>

That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O' Lee <br>

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