Three Dollar Hat

Album: Dodge And Burn (2015)
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  • I'm that bad man named Jackie Lee
    Shooting everybody down with a thirty-three

    Jackie said Johnny can't you see?
    That you love everybody but Jackie Lee?

    Johnny said to Jackie don't take my life
    I got three young kids and a bad-ass wife

    Jackie told Johnny you're acting crazy
    What you know about having a baby?
    You're crazy!

    And what I care about your kids and wife?
    You done stole my hat, I'm gonna take your life

    Ha-ha-ha

    I'm that bad man named Jackie Lee
    Shooting everybody down with a thirty-three

    Aah

    There's a knife in my hand and I'm going to stand and deliver
    Why, because I must erase your mind forever
    There's a throat I must slit and I will stand before I surrender
    I'll fall back but I won't be the one to say
    Wait up, where you at?
    I'm so much better then that
    Three dollar hat

    Jackie said Johnny lets tit-for-tat
    You want to trade your life for a three dollar hat?

    So they hung Jackie Lee at three o'clock
    Left his hands laying there on the butcher block

    He's that bad man named Jackie Lee
    Shooting everybody down with a thirty-three

    Jackie and Johnny were sweet hearts
    Oh, what a love that they had Writer/s: ALISON MOSSHART, DEAN FERTITA, JACK LAWRENCE, JACK WHITE
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Linda M Bowyer from Arlington VaMississippi John Hurt, "Stagolee". This is the original story/song with a few minor changes. It is not word for word. No credit given either sadly.
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