Police officers, how can it be?
You can arrest everybody, but cruel Stagger Lee
That bad man, oh cruel Stagger Lee
 

Billy the Lion told Stagger Lee, please don't take my life
I got two little babes and a darling loving wife
That bad man, oh cruel Stagger Lee
 

What do I care about your two little babes
                                                                your darling loving wife
You done stole my Stetson hat, I'm bound to take your life
That bad man, oh cruel Stagger Lee
 

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Boom-boom boom-boom went a .44
oh when I spied Billy the Lion he was lying down on the floor
That bad man, oh cruel Stagger Lee
 

Gentlemens of the jury, what you think of that?
Stagger Lee killed Billy the Lion about a five-dollar Stetson hat
That bad man, oh cruel Stagger Lee
 

Standing on the gallows, his head way up high
At twelve o'clock they killed him,
                                                they was all glad to see him die
That bad man, oh cruel Stagger Lee