Oh Stack O'Lee was a bad man like everybody knows
Toted a two bells shotgun and a blue steel Forty Four
That bad man, that bad man Stack O'Lee
Now Stack O'Lee and Billy Lyons was a-playing sittin' up
Billy won the money but was afraid to pick it up
Oh Stack jumped up on a table said Billy you can't do that
Done won all my money and my milk white Stetson hat
Oh that bad man, that bad man Stack O'Lee
Well Stack O'Lee went a-walking right down that L&N track
Said I ain't gonna hurt you now but I will when I get back
When Stack reached his house, he went in in a run
Pulled open the dresser and he got his trusted gun
Stack looked at his watch and he saw there ain't much time
Gotta settle this debt between me and old Billy Lyons
Now when old stack reached the bar room, he eased up to the door
Bill had out his pistol and walking up and down the floor
But when he seen old Stack O'Lee, hollered don't take my life
I've got one little chillens and a sweet little lovely wife
Old Stack shot him in the shoulder, and then shot him in his thigh
Said I'm gonna keep this shooting baby till the day you die
Oh that bad man, that bad man Stack O'Lee
Billy's wife heard the shooting, and said to her oldest son
When you get a little big I'm gonna get you a great big gun
Little boy said Mama, you sure ain't talking to me
Stack O'Lee killed Daddy, and now he's gonna kill me
Stack O'Lee told the Devil let's me and you have some fun
You stick me with your pitchfork and I shoot you with my gun
Then Stack O'Lee grabbed the pitchfork laid it up on a shelf
Said get away Devil, gonna run this hell myself
Oh he was a bad man, that bad man Stack O'Lee