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lots of posts about craps
these are the lyrics to a song about a street craps game


The Ballad of StaggerLee


I was standing on the corner
When I heard my bulldog bark

He was barkin' at the people
Who was gamblin' in the dark

StaggerLee and Billy
Two men who gambled late

StaggerLee rolled a 7
Billy claimed it was an 8

StaggerLee - cried Billy
You know you shouldn't do that

You took all my money
And my brand new Stetson hat

StaggerLee went home
And he loaded up his 44

He said I'm going to the barroom
To pay that debt I owe

StaggerLee got to the barroom
And he strode across the barroom floor

StaggerLee cried Billy
Please don't take my life

I've got 3 little children
And a very sickly wife

Stagger Lee shot Billy
He shot that poor boy so bad

The bullet went thru his body
And it broke the bartender's glass


Yes, it broke the bartender's glass


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I find those lyrics confusing. Seemed like Stagger Lee took all of Billy’s money and his Stetson hat. But then Stagger Lee also seems like he lost so went and got his gun.

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I find those lyrics confusing. Seemed like Stagger Lee took all of Billy’s money and his Stetson hat. But then Stagger Lee also seems like he lost so went and got his gun.
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I recall very-slightly-different lyrics from when the song was popular. In this thread presentation, there is also likely some confusion as to which party is making what comments. For example, in the fifth couplet, I think that Stagger Lee cried "Billy" and accused him of improperly claiming (in the previous couplet) that the 7 that Lee rolled was an 8. (I remember the lyrics for the second line of that fifth couplet being "I can't let you go with that.")

So with this interpretation of who said what, it was Billy who took all of Stagger Lee's money, perhaps improperly, along with Stagger Lee's hat, leading Stagger Lee to go home and get armed. In the tenth couplet, as I recall, it is Billy who cried "Stagger Lee, please don't take my life", etc. Lots of possible confusion when you leave out the quotation marks and commas.

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I find those lyrics confusing. Seemed like Stagger Lee took all of Billy’s money and his Stetson hat. But then Stagger Lee also seems like he lost so went and got his gun.
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according to the link, which is pretty interesting and has other commentary, there are 170 different versions of the song

originally it was a folk tune called "Ballad of Stack - O - Lee"___________so confusion is understandable

and it was inspired by a real person - Texas born Lee Shelton - nicknamed Stagger Lee - a gambler who shot and killed Billy Lyons on Christmas night in 1895

I wrote what I did from memory - it probably isn't 100% correct and doesn't exactly match any version

anyway - what a great song



https://www.songfacts.com/facts/lloyd-price/stagger-lee#:~:text=There%20have%20been%20over%20170,released%20over%20the%20past%20century.


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There is a sequel to the song where a woman seeks revenge on Stagger for shooting her boyfriend Billy in the head after Billy won Stagger's lucky hat. After the police won't do anything to Stagger, she takes matters into her own hands and shoots him in the balls.

Quote: Sammy Davis Jr. (on the lifestyle of The Rat Pack in 1958)

We gamble. There's nothing else to do in Vegas. Man, it's like Baghdad. You can't sleep. All the chicks are after loot. So you sing, and what else do you do? Sometimes, Dean and Frank sit in for the dealers. It must cost the house $1,000 every time. They see a little old schoolteacher making a bet and they slip her the good cards and let her win big.

Not a "great" quote perhaps but insightful into 50's Vegas.

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I heard this from some comedian whose name I can't recall

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I heard this from some comedian whose name I can't recall

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I heard this from some comedian whose name I can't recall

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𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯___________ 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘳_______________😄 😄 😄


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