Stackolee

D Stackolee was a bad man, everybody knows G D Spent a hundred dollars for just one suit of clothes A D He was a bad man, that mean old Stackolee D Stackolee loaded cotton, weighed five hundred pounds Carried along a Gatling gun, that drug him to the ground A D He was a bad man, that mean old Stackolee D It was in a hustling b-joint where the Mississippi run G D Stackolee killed Billy de Lyons with a smoking forty-one A D He was a bad man, that mean old Stackolee D The high sheriff asked the deputy, "How can it be G D You can arrest everybody, but the mean old Stackolee? A D He's a bad man, that mean old Stackolee." D And the deputy told the new sheriff, "Double up my fee G D And I'll go get that outlaw, by the name of Stackolee A D 'Cause he's a bad man, that mean old Stackolee." D Gentlemen of the jury, what do you think about that? G D Stackolee killed Billy de Lyons about a five dollar Stetson hat A D He was a bad man, that mean old Stackolee D Billy was in the card house and kneeling on the floor G D Stackolee pulled the trigger of his red-hot forty-four A D He was a bad man, that mean old Stackolee D Billy said to Stackolee, "Please don't take my life G D I've got three little babes and a darling loving wife A D You're a bad man, your name is Stackolee" D "What do I care about your two little babes, your darling loving wife? G D You done stole my brand new hat and I'm bound to take your life 'Cause you're a bad man, and my name is Stackolee" D Billy died in the sawdust, with his head upon the rail G D Deputy took old Stackolee and he marched him off to jail A D He was a bad man, that mean old Stackolee D The judge said, "Mr. Stackolee, Mr. Stackolee G D I'm gonna hang your body up and set your spirit free A D 'Cause you're a bad man, your name is Stackolee" D Stackolee on his gallows, his head way up high G D Twelve o'clock we killed him, was all glad to see him die A D He was a bad man, that mean old Stackolee A D He was a bad man, that mean old Stackolee