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Stagger Lee and Billy Lyon, they was gamblin' in the dark
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Stagger Lee told Billy, Billy Lyon let's take a walk
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Stagger Lee won Billy Lyon's money, and he took Billy Lyon's stetson hat
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Billy Lion said Stagger Lee, lord why do you do me like that
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Now Billy Lyon begged Stagger Lee, said please give me back my hat
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Cause you know you won my money, please don't take my hat
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Now Billy Lyon said to Stagger Lee, said please please don't take my life
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I got two little children and a poor little homeless wife
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Billy Lyon said to Stagger Lee, would you do your friend like that
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well you won all my money, and you took my stetson hat
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Stagger Lee shot Billy Lyon, and he fell down on his knees
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he said Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy if you please
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Stagger Lee run to the corner, and he look up and down
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said I'd rather see you Billy, six feet in the ground
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Now the people start to weepin', and some of them begin to moan
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Everybody was worried 'bout poor Billy Lyon was gone
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Teena teena na, teena na ni na
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Teena na na, teena ni na ni na
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Say I want Louis Armstrong and his band
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To play the blues as they lay my body down
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I want ten thousand women to be at my buryin' ground
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Stack-O-Lee
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Champion Jack Dupree |