Luyện nghe bài hát Stagalee

Three traditional versions of the song from Murder Ballads. Nick's version is available. Further details (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.

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

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

Stagalee Billy O. Lion
I care for your three lil' children
Or even lovin' wife
You stole mah hat
And I'm to take yo'life

Stagalee out his forty-four
It went boom boom
It long' fore Bill O. Lion
WVere layin'on de

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

Stagalee his woman
"How change has you got?"
She run her han'in her feet
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 old Stagolee

Stagolee shot de Lyons
What do you about that?
Shot him down in blood
Because he stole his hat;

He was a bad man
mean old Stagolee

Billy de said, Stagolee
Please don't my life
I've got two babes
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 my Stetson hat
I'm bound to take life;

He was a bad man,
mean old Stagolee.

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

He was a bad man
That old Stagolee.

Twelve o'clock they him
reached up high
Last thing that boy said,
"My never lied."

He was a bad man,
mean old Stagolee.

chorus: Stagolee, Stagolee, he's the meanest man in
When that boy starts gamblin', better lay your down
Down in New where they got that Lyon's Club
Every step you step steppin' 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
shot a seven, and Stack he said he'd pass
Stack to Billy de Lyon, "Brother,
You shot your last"

The woman the sheriff, said "How can this be?
You got all them bad men, but you get Stagolee"
Deputies took their badges and they laid them on the
"If you want to get bad man, you get him by yourself"

Now send for the policemen, a hundred come
down with rifles and a great big Gatling gun
On we condemned him, the judge he lowered his head
On Saturday we hanged him, I was to see him dead