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

Bill O. tole Stagalee
Please take my life
I got three children
And a dear lovin'wife

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

pulled out his forty-four
It went boom boom
It wasn't long' fore O. Lion
layin'on de flo'

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

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

From Southern Ballads, McNeill 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 old Stagolee

shot Billy de Lyons
What do you think that?
Shot him in cold blood
Because he his Stetson hat;

He was a bad man
mean old Stagolee

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

You are a bad man
You old Stagolee.

do I care about your two little babes,
Your loving wife?,
You stole my Stetson hat
I'm bound to your life;

He was a bad man,
mean 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 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, he's the man in town
When that boy starts gamblin', better lay your money
Down in New Orleans where got that Lyon's Club
Every step you you're steppin' in Billy de Lyon's blood

I one September, on a cold and stormy 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 shot 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 want to get bad man, you get him by yourself"

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