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 when he bad,
He bad wid a gun
Stagalee, --- you must-a 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 night
Stagalee and O. Lion
Dey had dat fight.

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

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

Stagalee out his forty-four
It boom boom boom
It wasn't fore Bill O. Lion
WVere de flo'

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

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

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

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

He was a bad man
That mean old

Stagolee Billy de Lyons
What do you about that?
him down in cold 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 little
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,
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 o'clock they him
Head up high
thing that poor boy said,
"My never lied."

He was a bad man,
mean old Stagolee.

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

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

The woman the sheriff, said "How can this be?
You got all bad men, but you can't get Stagolee"
took their 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
Loaded down with rifles and a great big gun
On Friday we condemned him, the judge he lowered his
On we hanged him, I was glad to see him dead