Текст песни Stack O' Lee - Merle Travis

Old Stackerlee was a bad man like everybody knows
Toted a two barrel shotgun and a blue steel forty-four
Mmm, that bad man, that bad man Stackerlee

Now Stackerlee and Billy Lyons was a-playin' seven-up
Billy won the money, was afraid to pick it up
Old Stack jumped up on the table, sayin', "Billy, you can't do that
Done won all my money and my milk-white Stetson hat"
Oh, that bad man, that bad man Stackerlee

Well, Stackerlee went a-walkin' right down that L & N track
Sayin', "I ain't a-gonna hurt you now, but I will when I get back"
When Stack reached his house, he went in, in a run
Pulled open the dresser drawer, and he got his trusty gun

Stack looked at his watch, and he saw they ain't much time
Gotta settle this difference 'tween me and old Billy Lyons
Now, when old Stack reached the barroom, he eased up to the door
Bill had out his pistol and walkin' up and down the floor

But when he seen old Stackerlee, he hollered, "Don't take my life
I got one little chillun's and a sweet little lovin' wife"
Old Stack shot him in the shoulder and then shot him in the thigh
Said, "I'm gonna keep a-shootin', baby, 'til the day you die"
Oh, that bad man, that bad man Stackerlee

Billy's wife heard the shootin' and said to her oldest son
"When you get a little bigger, gonna get you a great big gun"
Little boy said, "Mama, you sure ain't talkin' to me
Stackerlee killed daddy, and now he's gonna kill me"

Stackerlee told the devil, "Let's me and you have some fun
You stick me with your pitchfork, and I'll shoot you with my gun"
Then Stackerlee grabbed the pitchfork, laid it up on the shelf
Said, "Get away, devil, gonna run this hell myself"
Oh, he was a bad man, that bad man Stackerlee