the night was clear and the moon was yellow and the leaves came tumbling down i was standin on the corner when i heard my bull dog bark he was barkin at the two men who were gamblin in the dark stagger lee and billy two men who gambled late stagger lee threw a seven billy swore that he threw an eight stagger lee told billy i can t let you go with that you have won all my money and my brand new stetson hat stagger lee went home and he got his forty four said i m gonna to the bar just to pay that debt i owe blew them six stagger lee stagger lee stagger lee went to the bar room and he stood across the bar room door said now nobody move then he pulled his forty four stagger lee cried billy ohh please don t take my life i ve got three little children and a very sickly wife well stagger lee shot billy ohh he shot that poor boy so bad so the bullet came through billy and it broke the bartender s glass hate that thing on most hands stagger lee stagger lee go stagger lee go stagger lee go stagger lee go stagger lee go stagger lee go stagger lee go stagger lee go stagger lee go stagger lee go stagger lee go stagger lee go stagger lee go stagger lee go stagger lee go stagger lee go stagger lee