Stack-a-lee, shut your little eyes
You shot that boy. so fast
Your bullet went through Billy
And broke the bartender's glass
Stack-a-lee went around the counter
Well he shot Stack, in the side
Stack-a-lee went stumbling
In his mother's door
He said mother, oh mother
Won't you turn me, over slow
I've been shot in my left side
With a police 44
When all the ladies, heard that Stack
Oh Stack-a-lee was dead
Some came dressed in all his colors
Some came dressed in red
Oh I said boy now
Stack-a lee went to devil
To identify poor Billy's soul
But the poor boy he was absent
He had gone down to shove coal
Now the devil heard a rumbling
A mighty rumbling, under the ground
He said that must be the stud that pointed Billy
Upsidedown
Now you've seen that old devil
On top of the Devil himself
Who said you won't miss those bad boys
I'll get you, by yourself
Now I told you all, my little story
I sang you all my little song
How Stack-a-lee and Billy lied
And now they dead and gone
You shot that boy. so fast
Your bullet went through Billy
And broke the bartender's glass
Stack-a-lee went around the counter
Well he shot Stack, in the side
Stack-a-lee went stumbling
In his mother's door
He said mother, oh mother
Won't you turn me, over slow
I've been shot in my left side
With a police 44
When all the ladies, heard that Stack
Oh Stack-a-lee was dead
Some came dressed in all his colors
Some came dressed in red
Oh I said boy now
Stack-a lee went to devil
To identify poor Billy's soul
But the poor boy he was absent
He had gone down to shove coal
Now the devil heard a rumbling
A mighty rumbling, under the ground
He said that must be the stud that pointed Billy
Upsidedown
Now you've seen that old devil
On top of the Devil himself
Who said you won't miss those bad boys
I'll get you, by yourself
Now I told you all, my little story
I sang you all my little song
How Stack-a-lee and Billy lied
And now they dead and gone