Stack a Lee - Bob Dylan

Hawlin Alley on a dark and drizzly night

Billy Lyons and Stack-A-Lee had one terrible fight

All about that John B. Stetson hat

Stack-A-Lee walked to the bar-room, and he called for a glass of beer

Turned around to Billy Lyons, said, «What are you doin' here?»

«Waitin' for a train, please bring my woman home

«Stack-A-Lee, oh Stack-A-Lee.

please don’t take my life

Got three little children and a-weepin', lovin' wife

You’re a bad man, bad man, Stack-A-Lee.»

«God bless your children and I’ll take care of your wife

You stole my John B., now I’m bound to take your life.»

All about that John B. Stetson hat

Stack-A-Lee turned to Billy Lyons and he shot him right through the head

Only taking one shot to kill Billy Lyons dead

All about that John B. Stetson hat

Sent for the doctor, well the doctor he did come

Just pointed out Stack-A-Lee, said, «Now what have you done?»

You’re a bad man, bad man, Stack-A-Lee."

Six big horses and a rubber-tired hack

Taking him to the cemetery, buy they failed to bring him back

All about that John B. Stetson hat

Hawlin Alley, thought I heard the bulldogs bark

It must have been old Stack-A-Lee stumbling in the dark

He’s a bad man, gonna land him right back in jail

High police walked on to Stack-A-Lee, he was lying fast asleep

High police walked on to Stack-A-Lee, and he jumped forty feet

He’s a bad man, gonna land him right back in jail

Well they got old Stack-A-Lee and they laid him right back in jail

Couldn’t get a man around to go Stack-A Lee’s bail

All about that John B. Stetson hat

Stack-A-Lee turned to the jailer, he said, «Jailer, I can’t sleep

'Round my bedside Billy Lyons began to creep.»

All about that John B. Stetson hat