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

Don't you you remember
One dark stormy
and Bill O. Lion
Dey had dat fight.

Bill O. Lion tole
Please don't my life
I got little children
And a lil' lovin'wife

Stagalee Billy O. Lion
I don't care for your three children
Or even your wife
You mah Stetson hat
And I'm to take yo'life

Stagalee pulled out his
It went boom boom
It wasn't long' fore O. Lion
layin'on de flo'

Stagalee's she went to her boss
Said, "Please give me change.
Dey got my baby in de station
An'mah mus'be'ranged. "

asked his woman
"How much has you got?"
She run her han'in her feet
And out a hundred spot.
She had to get mo'money.

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

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

He was a bad man
mean old Stagolee

Stagolee shot de Lyons
What do you about that?
Shot him in cold blood
Because he stole his Stetson

He was a bad man
mean old Stagolee

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

You are a bad man
You old Stagolee.

What do I care your two little babes,
darling loving wife?,
You done my Stetson hat
I'm bound to take your

He was a bad man,
mean old Stagolee.

The said, Stagolee,
What you in here?,
You done Mr. Billy de Lyons,
You to die in the electric chair;

He was a bad man
mean old Stagolee.

Twelve they killed him
Head up high
Last thing that boy said,
"My six-shooter lied."

He was a bad man,
That old Stagolee.

chorus: Stagolee, Stagolee, the meanest man in town
When that boy starts gamblin', better lay money down
Down in New Orleans they got that Lyon's Club
Every step you step you're in Billy de Lyon's blood

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

The woman asked the sheriff, "How can this be?
You got all bad men, but you can't get Stagolee"
Deputies took their badges and they laid on the shelf
"If you to get that 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 we hanged him, I was glad to see him dead