Stack O' Lee Blues-Mississippi John Hurt

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[00:00.00]Stack O' Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
[00:13.55]Police officer how can it be
[00:17.81]You can 'rest everybody
[00:20.19]But cruel Stack O' Lee
[00:22.34]That bad man oh cruel Stack O' Lee
[00:38.61]Billy de Lyon told Stack O' Lee
[00:40.81]"Please don't take my life
[00:43.01]I got two little babies
[00:45.21]And a darlin' lovin' wife"
[00:47.24]That bad man oh cruel Stack O' Lee
[01:03.38]"What I care about you little babies
[01:05.55]Your darlin' lovin' wife
[01:07.65]You done stole my Stetson1 hat
[01:09.69]I'm bound to take your life"
[01:11.76]That bad man oh cruel Stack O' Lee
[01:44.14]With the forty-four
[01:45.92]When I spied Billy de Lyon
[01:48.18]He was lyin' down on the floor
[01:50.20]That bad man oh cruel Stack O' Lee
[02:06.12]"Gentleman's of the jury
[02:08.37]What do you think of that
[02:10.60]Stack O' Lee killed Billy de Lyon
[02:12.44]About a five-dollar Stetson hat"
[02:14.62]That bad man oh cruel Stack O' Lee
[02:30.38]And all they gathered hands way up high
[02:34.51]At twelve o'clock they killed him
[02:36.78]They's all glad to see him die
[02:38.94]That bad man oh cruel Stack O' Lee