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 Nick from) are also available.

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

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

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

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

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

Stagalee's woman she to her boss
Said, "Please me some change.
Dey got my in de station house
business mus'be'ranged. "

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

From Southern Folk Ballads, McNeill Collected 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 old Stagolee

shot Billy de Lyons
What do you think about
Shot him down in blood
he stole his Stetson hat;

He was a bad man
That old Stagolee

Billy de Lyons said,
Please don't my life
got two little babes
And a darling, wife;

You are a bad man
You old Stagolee.

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

He was a bad man,
That old Stagolee.

The said, Stagolee,
you doing 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 they him
reached up high
Last thing poor boy said,
"My six-shooter lied."

He was a bad man,
That old Stagolee.

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

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

The woman asked the sheriff, said "How can be?
You got all bad men, but you can't get Stagolee"
took 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 rifles and a great big Gatling gun
On we condemned him, the judge he lowered his head
On Saturday we him, I was glad to see him dead