Luyện nghe bài hát Stagalee

Three traditional versions of the song from Murder Ballads. Nick's version is also available. Further (and the actual book Nick edited from) are also available.

Bad man Stagalee he bad,
He bad wid a gun
Stagalee, Stagalee --- you must-a been a
Ev'ry- Christmas eve they give a dinner
Bad man Stagalee, he bad
He bad wid a gun.

you remember you remember
One stormy night
and Bill O. Lion
Dey had dat fight.

O. Lion tole Stagalee
Please don't take my
I got three children
And a dear lil'

Stagalee Billy O. Lion
I don't for your three lil' children
Or your lovin' wife
You stole mah hat
And I'm goin to yo'life

Stagalee out his forty-four
It went boom boom
It wasn't long' fore O. Lion
WVere de flo'

Stagalee's woman she went to her
Said, "Please give me change.
Dey got my baby in de house
business mus'be'ranged. "

Stagalee asked his
"How change has you got?"
She run her han'in her stocking
And pulled out a spot.
She had to get mo'money.

From Southern Ballads, McNeill Collected from Vera Hall, AL 1947

was a bad man,
knows.
Spent one hundred
Just to buy him a of dothes.

He was a bad man
That mean old

shot Billy de Lyons
What do you think that?
Shot him in cold blood
Because he his Stetson hat;

He was a bad man
That old Stagolee

Billy de Lyons said,
Please don't my life
I've got two little
And a darling, loving

You are a bad man
You old Stagolee.

What do I about your two little babes,
Your loving wife?,
You done stole my hat
I'm to take your life;

He was a bad man,
mean old Stagolee.

The said, Stagolee,
you doing in here?,
You done Mr. Billy de Lyons,
You going to die in the electric

He was a bad man
That old Stagolee.

Twelve they killed him
Head up high
thing that poor boy said,
"My never lied."

He was a bad man,
That old Stagolee.

chorus: Stagolee, Stagolee, he's the man in town
When that boy gamblin', better lay your money down
Down in New Orleans where got that Lyon's Club
Every step you step you're steppin' in Billy de Lyon's

I remember one September, on a cold and night
Billy de Lyon and Stagolee, Lord, had a great big fight
Billy a seven, and Stack he said he'd pass
said to Billy de Lyon, "Brother,
You shot your last"

The woman the sheriff, said "How can this be?
You got all bad men, but you can't get Stagolee"
took their badges and they laid them on the shelf
"If you want to get bad man, you get him by yourself"

Now for the policemen, a hundred thousand come
Loaded with rifles and a great big Gatling gun
On Friday we condemned him, the judge he his head
On Saturday we him, I was glad to see him dead