hawlin alley one dark and drizzly night billy lyons and stack a lee had one terrible fight all about that john b stetson hat stack a lee walked to the bar room and he called for a glass of beer he turned around to billy lyons said what a you doin here waitin for a train to bring my woman home stack a lee oh stack a lee please don t take my life i ve got three little children and a weepin loving wife you re a bad man bad man stack a lee god bless your children and 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 stack a lee turned to billy lyons and shot him right through the head only taking one shot to kill billy lyons dead all about that john b stetson hat sent for the doctor well the doctor he did come just pointed out stack a lee said now what have you done you re a bad man bad man stack a lee six big horses and a rubber tired hack taking him to the cemetery but they failed to bring him back all about that john b stetson hat lookin for ol stack a lee then hawlin alley thought i heared the bulldogs bark it must have been old stack a lee stumbling in the dark he s a bad man gonna land him right back in jail how d they catch ol stack a lee high police walked on to stack a lee he was lying fast asleep high police catched stack a lee and he jumped for forty feet he s a bad man gonna land him right back in jail got ol stack a lee and they led him right back in jail they couldn t get a man around to go stack a lee s bail all about that john b stetson hat stack a lee said to the jailer jailer i can t sleep round my bedside billy lyons begin to creep all about that john b stetson hat