All this over a $5 Stetson hat

Lloyd Price had a big hit with Stagger Lee


Nick Cave changed it up quite a bit, but it's the same old story, isn't it? (language alert!)


Hank Shizzoe and Sonny Landreth


Taj Mahal - Stack O Lee


Lee Shelton, known as Stag Lee, shot William Lyons in a dispute over a hat in St. Louis in 1895. For more on the story and the legend, visit The Stagger Lee Files Over 50 different performers have recorded versions of this enduring story-song.

Six big horses and a rubber-tired hack,
Taking him to the cemetery, buy they failed to bring him back.
All about that John B. Stetson hat.