Luyện nghe bài hát Stagalee

Three traditional versions of the song from Ballads. Nick's version is also 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 been a sinner
Ev'ry- Christmas eve they give a dinner
Bad man Stagalee, he bad
He bad wid a gun.

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

Bill O. Lion Stagalee
Please take my life
I got three children
And a dear lil'

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

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

Stagalee's woman she 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 her stocking feet
And out a hundred spot.
She had to get mo'money.

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

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

He was a bad man
That mean old

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

He was a bad man
That old Stagolee

de Lyons said, Stagolee
Please take 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,
darling loving wife?,
You stole my Stetson hat
I'm to take your life;

He was a bad man,
That old Stagolee.

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

He was a bad man
mean old Stagolee.

Twelve o'clock killed him
Head reached up
thing that poor boy said,
"My never lied."

He was a bad man,
That old Stagolee.

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

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

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

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