Stackolee was a bad man everybody knows

Spent a hundred dollars for just one suit of clothes

He was a bad man that mean old Stackolee

Stackolee loaded cotton weighed five hundred pounds

Carried along a Gatling gun that drug him to the ground

He was a bad man that mean old Stackolee

It was in a hustling bjoint where the Mississippi run

Stackolee killed Billy de Lyons with a smoking forty-one

He was a bad man that mean old Stackolee

The high sheriff asked the deputy how can it be

You can arrest everybody but the mean old Stackolee

He's a bad man that mean old Stackolee

And the deputy told the new sheriff double up my fee

And I'll go get that outlaw by the name of Stackolee

'Cause he's a bad man that mean old Stackolee

Gentlemen of the jury what do you think about that

Stackolee killed Billy de Lyons about a five dollar Stetson hat

He was a bad man that mean old Stackolee

Billy was in the card house and kneeling on the floor

Stackolee pulled the trigger of his redhot forty-four

He was a bad man that mean old Stackolee

Bad man that mean old Stackolee

Billy said to Stackolee please don't take my life

I've got three little babes and a darling loving wife

You're a bad man your name is Stackolee

What do I care about your two little babes your darling loving wife

You done stole my brand new hat and I'm bound to take your life

'Cause you're a bad man and my name is Stackolee

Billy died in the sawdust with his head upon the rail

Deputy took old Stackolee and he marched him off to jail

He was a bad man that mean old Stackolee

The judge said Mr Stackolee Mr Stackolee

I'm gonna hang your body up and set your spirit free

'Cause you're a bad man your name is Stackolee

Stackolee on his gallows his head way up high

Twelve o'clock we killed him was all glad to see him die

He was a bad man that mean old Stackolee

He was a bad man that mean old Stackolee