Lyrics:

Well I guess there's lots of things that can happen to you when you're on this chain gang, it's pretty bad, having to live all your life with chains around your legs, but not quite as bad as that old Stackolee, in the ____ hang

Stackolee was a bad man, everybody knows
Spent about a hundred dollars on the long suit and clothes
He was a bad man, that mean old stackolee

Stackolee and Billy de Lyons fighting on the floor
Stackolee pulled the trigger of that smokin' forty-four
He was a bad man, his name was stackolee

Billy de Lyons says to Stackolee, please don't take my life
I've got two little babe's and a darling lovin' wife
You're a bad man, your name is Stackolee

Well what do I care about two babes and darling lovin' wife
You've done so my Stetson hat and I'm bound to take your life
I'm a bad man, my name is Stackolee

Hey

________
Mister Stackolee, I'm gonna hang your body off a _____ fir tree
You're a bad man, your name is Stackolee

He was standing on those gallows, head a-way up high
______ he killed him, ______ him die
He was sad man, that mean old Stackolee

He was standing on those gallows, head a-way up high
______ he killed him, ______ see him die
He was bad man, his name was Stackolee

He was bad man, and his name was Stackolee