STACK AND THE DEVIL
Cephas and Williams



There's a man you heard about, they call him Stagolee
He killed a man named Billy Lion, down in New Orleans

Young Stack he was a gambler who never learned to lose
He shot Billy Lion down, meeting at the booze

Guess, you know it very well, but here I'd like to tell
The story of the pell-mell as he arrived the Hell

The Devil's wife saw Stack a-coming, she grabbed her bloody thong
Said: Here comes that bad man Stack, telling the world gone wrong

All of the Devil's children went scrambling up the wall
Said: Daddy, kill that bad man, before he kills us all

The Devil all there said: Hello, how'd ya do, my friend
I heard about you, welcome Stack, don't step on my tail end

Now Stack spoke to the Devil: Come on, let's have some fun
You stick me with your pitchfork, let me shoot you with my gun

Hey Stagolee, you bad man, you can't take my life
A million bullets won't kill the Devil or his wife

The Devil's children cried again: Hey Daddy, kill that man
Better put him on a-parboil as long as you can

Well, come on, Mr. Devil, we're gonna have some fun
Your kids might beat the drum, I'd play my fourty-one

The Devil grabbed his pitchfork, he took it from the shelf
Said: Stack, stand back, I am the boss, I rule the Hell myself

Now the moral of this story is very plain to see
You better shun the Devil, and men like Stagolee




(Contributed by =Ae= - January 2009)