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

you remember you remember
One dark stormy
Stagalee and O. Lion
Dey had dat fight.

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

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

pulled out his forty-four
It went 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 his woman
"How change has you got?"
She run her her stocking 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
to buy him a suit of dothes.

He was a bad man
That mean old

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

de Lyons 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 care 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 shot Mr. Billy de Lyons,
You going to die in the electric

He was a bad man
That old Stagolee.

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

He was a bad man,
That old Stagolee.

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

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

The woman asked the sheriff, said "How can 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 thousand come
Loaded down rifles and a great big Gatling gun
On Friday we him, the judge he lowered his head
On Saturday we hanged him, I was glad to see him