About This Song
About "BBC - Children's Hour July 7, 1944: Stagger Lee" by Woody Guthrie
Guthrieās āStagger Leeā is a playground murder ballad, delivered with a storytellerās relish for the macabre. The BBC childrenās hour frame makes the violence deliciously subversiveābad man Stagger Lee struts through the nursery like a shadow puppet with a pistol.
