Police officer how can it be

You can rest everybody but cruel Stack O' Lee

That bad man oh cruel Stack O' Lee

Billy de lyon told Stack O' Lee please don't take my life

I got two little babies and a darlin' loving wife

That bad man oh cruel Stack O' Lee

What I care about you little babies your darlin' loving wife

You done stole my stetson1 hat I'm bound to take your life

That bad man oh cruel Stack O' Lee

With the forty-four

When I spied Billy de Lyon lying down on the floor

That bad man oh cruel Stack O' Lee

Gentleman's of the jury what do you think of that

Stack O' Lee killed Billy de Lyon about a five-dollar stetson hat

That bad man oh cruel Stack O' Lee

And all they gathered hands way up high

At twelve o'clock they killed him they's all glad to see him die

That bad man oh cruel Stack O' Lee