SqueezeMyLemon: Old Stack-O-lee Blues

Great video overview of the folk standard known as “stack-o-lee” or “stagger lee”, which has been performed in many, many versions over the years. It’s a great example of songs which were passed along in the oral tradition, in an era when mass communication was rare, and folk stories often were the primary source of history:

SqueezeMyLemon: Old Stack-O-lee Blues.