WPF - Add a scroll viewer to the items of a context menu - xaml

I'm trying to add a scroll bar (ScrollViewer) to my Label.ContextMenu
However it doesn't accept it. I have looked all over the WPF sites and I cannot find a viable solution. I have tried adding in stack panels and the works and even though it won't complain about the syntax it will not display the 2nd tier items.
It won't even accept the max height on the control so I can limit the items shown to let's say 10.
Note that the context menu is populated via a data set (no issue there).
Can anyone please provide a viable solution?
< Label.Contextmenu >
< contentMenu style='{xxxx}' {controls.my control that gets added to the menu that has the items in it} </contextMenu >
</label.contextmenu >

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