I was standin' on the corner When I heard my bull dog bark He was barkin' at the two men Who was gamblin' in the dark It was Stagger Lee and Billy Lyons Two men who liked to gambled late Stagger Lee threw a seven Billy swore that he threw an eight Stagger won Billy Aw you ought to know better than that You have won all my massed money And now you got my Cadillac Stagger Lee told Billy (????) walk down the railroad track I ain't tricking you Billy buddy But one of us is going to make it back Stagger lee went on home Got out his trusted Forty Four Said I'm going down to the Lone Star To take up that debt that I owe Stagger Lee went to the bar room Lord and he threw open the bar room doors Said, now, nobody move I've got y'all covered with my forty four Billy Lyons (?) that Said now please don't take my life I've got three little children And a very shapely wife Stagger Lee shot Billy He shot that boy so fast Bullet went through Billy Lyons And it broke the bartender's glass Well the police shot Stag Well they shot Stag in his side Stager Lee went stumbling to his mother do and die When all the ladies heard about Stag Heard that Stagger Lee was dead Some come dressed in Orange colors Some came dressed in red Now the people heard a mighty rumbling A mighty rumbling under the ground See that must be that bad assed Stag Turning Billy upside down Now Stag went to the devil To identify poor Billy's soul The poor boy he was absent He had burned down to charcoal Tina na na.