Lyrics:

Hawlin alley, one dark and drizzly night
billy lyons and stackalee had one terrible fight
all about that john b. stetson hat

stackalee walked to the bar-room and he called for a glass of beer
and he turned around to billy lyons, said 'what are you doin' here ?'
'waitin' for the train, please bring my woman home'

'stackalee, oh stackalee, please don't take my life
i've got three little children and a weepin', loving wife
you're a bad man, bad man, stackalee'

'god bless your children, 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

stackalee turned to billy lyons and shot him right through the head
only taken one shot to kill billy lyons dead
all about that john b. stetson hat

sent for the doctor, well, the doctor he did come
'good mornin', ol' stackalee, now what have you done?'
you're a bad man, bad man, stackalee

six big horses and a rubber-tired hack
they taken him to the cemetery, they failed to bring him back
all about that john b. stetson hat

hawlin alley, thought i heard a bulldog bark
it must have been old stackalee, stumblin' in the dark
he's a bad man, gonna land him right back in jail

five police walked on to stackalee, he's lyin' fast asleep
five police took stackalee, he jumped for forty feet
he's a bad man, gonna land him right back in jail

got old stackalee, they led him right back in jail
they couldn't get a man around to go stackalee's bail
all about that john b. stetson hat

stackalee said to the jailer, 'jailer, i can't sleep
'round my bedside, billy lyons begin to creep'
all about that john b. stetson hat