Episode #149- Who Was the Real Stagger Lee?
Our Fake History
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The Staggerly Folk Song by Billy Lyons
There are over 400 songs written about staggerlee, staks o lee, stag olee and all his various aliases. The song can really take any shape, so long as it's populated by the same stock characters who themselves can be shuffled in and out to suit the song writer. Some versions of the song have billy, some don't. But in every version, stagerlee is always presented as a man who should not be trifled with. Whether he is being presented as a heartless monster or a righteous defender of justice, stagelee never tates to pull the trigger. Stagger lee sits alongside the leks of giant lumberjack paul bunyan or
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