Original Stack O'lee Blues

Original Stack O'lee Blues - Long "Cleve" Reed/Yank Rachell

Stack O'Lee was a bully

He bullied all his life

Well he bullied through Chicago's town

Wiat a ten cent pocket knife

Tell it's oh Stack O'Lee

Stack turns towards Billy

How can it be

You arrest the man

Done desecrated me

But you oughta 'rrest Stack O'Lee

Tell it's oh Stack O'Lee

Bad man

Next answered Billy

Don't you take my life

Well I ain't got that much

Two little children leave a darlin' loving wife

Then it's so Stack O'Lee

One is a boy

And the other is a girl

Well you may see your chill'en kin

But it's in another world

Then it's oh Stack O'Lee

Sitting un'neath an umbrella

Didn't mean no harm

When the policeman saw'd me

Well they grabbed me by my arm

Say it's so Stack O'Lee

Stack O'Lee and Billy

Had a noble fight

Well Stack O'Lee take Billy's life

Was a cold dark Sunday night

Still it's oh Stack O'Lee

Oh Play it Boys

Standing on a silk carpet

Dogs begin to bark

But it would not but Stack O'Lee

Come creeping in his dark

Said it's oh Stack O'Lee