Luyện nghe bài hát Stagalee

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

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

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

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

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

Stagalee out his forty-four
It went boom boom
It wasn't long' Bill 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
An'mah mus'be'ranged. "

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

From Folk Ballads, McNeill Collected 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 Billy de
do you think about that?
Shot him down in blood
Because he stole his hat;

He was a bad man
That old Stagolee

de Lyons said, Stagolee
Please take my life
I've got two little
And a darling, wife;

You are a bad man
You old Stagolee.

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

He was a bad man,
mean old Stagolee.

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

He was a bad man
mean old Stagolee.

Twelve o'clock killed him
Head reached up
Last that poor boy said,
"My six-shooter lied."

He was a bad man,
mean old Stagolee.

chorus: Stagolee, Stagolee, the meanest man in town
that boy starts gamblin', better lay your money down
Down in New 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 and Stagolee, Lord, they had a great big fight
shot a seven, and Stack he said he'd pass
Stack said to de Lyon, "Brother,
You done your last"

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

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