Luyện nghe bài hát Stagalee

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

Bad man Stagalee he bad,
He bad wid a gun
Stagalee, Stagalee --- you been a sinner
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 take my life
I got three children
And a dear lovin'wife

told Billy O. Lion
I don't care for your three lil'
Or even lovin' wife
You mah Stetson hat
And I'm goin to take

pulled out his forty-four
It boom boom boom
It long' fore Bill 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. "

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

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

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 think about
Shot him in cold blood
Because he his Stetson hat;

He was a bad man
That old Stagolee

Billy de said, Stagolee
Please don't take my
I've got two babes
And a darling, wife;

You are a bad man
You old Stagolee.

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

He was a bad man,
That old Stagolee.

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

He was a bad man
mean old Stagolee.

Twelve they killed him
Head reached up
Last thing poor 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 money down
Down in New Orleans they got that Lyon's Club
step you step you're steppin' in Billy de Lyon's blood

I remember one September, on a and stormy night
de Lyon and Stagolee, Lord, they had a great big fight
Billy a seven, and Stack he said he'd pass
Stack said to 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 their badges and they laid them on the shelf
"If you to get that bad man, you get him by yourself"

Now send for the policemen, a hundred thousand
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