Stack-O-Lee – Tennessee Ernie Ford (with Joe “Fingers” Carr)By Stack-o-Lee, Stack-o-Lee he was a gambling manAs everybody oughta knowStack-o-Lee, Stack-o-Lee got his Stetson hatAnd a blazing forty fourI was hanging ’round the leveeAlong about the break of dayWhen I hear two gentlemen arguingI listened to the words they saidIt was Stack-o-Lee and BillyA-gambling awful lateStack-o-Lee he throwed a sevenAnd Billy said he throwed an eightStack-o-Lee he looked at BillySaid you can’t get away with that‘Taint enough you win my moneyBut you win my lucky Stetson hatStack-o-Lee run home to his womanSaid fetch me my forty fourGonna pick so Billy’s wagonSo he don’t gab around no moreStack-o-Lee, Stack-o-Lee he was a gambling manAs everybody oughta knowStack-o-Lee, Stack-o-Lee got his Stetson hatAnd a blazing forty fourStack-o-Lee found poor BillyBilly pleaded for his lifeHave some mercy on my childrenHave mercy on my darling wifeStack-o-Lee shot poor old BillyHe plugged him in the sideThen he kept on pumping bulletsWhen poor old billy diedWhen they called old Stack next mornin’They strung him up a treeAnd the women dressed in mourningAnd cried for Stack-o-LeeHad a hundred dollar funeralWith preaching Parson BrownThen the undertaker got himAnd stuck him in the groundStack-o-Lee, Stack-o-Lee he was a gambling manAs everybody oughta knowStack-o-Lee, Stack-o-Lee got his Stetson hatAnd a blazing forty fourWhen the devil see Stack comin’He holler ‘Now listen to meHide the children and the money‘Cause Stack-O-Lee is worse than me’Stack-O-Lee grabbed hold of the devilAnd threw him up on the shelfSaid ‘Your workin’ days are overI’m a-gonna run the place myself’Stack-o-Lee, Stack-o-Lee he was a gambling manAs everybody oughta knowStack-o-Lee, Stack-o-Lee got his Stetson hatAnd a blazing forty fourStack-o-Lee, Stack-o-Lee, Stack-o-LeeAin’t gonna gamble no more www.pillowlyrics.com419786497975 88k 20