Luyện nghe bài hát Stagalee

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

Bad man when 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.

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

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

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

Stagalee pulled out his
It went boom boom
It wasn't long' fore Bill O.
layin'on de flo'

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

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

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

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

He was a bad man
That mean old

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

He was a bad man
That old Stagolee

Billy de said, Stagolee
Please don't take my
I've got two little
And a darling, loving

You are a bad man
You old Stagolee.

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

He was a bad man,
That old Stagolee.

The said, Stagolee,
What you in here?,
You done Mr. Billy de Lyons,
You going to die in the electric

He was a bad man
mean old Stagolee.

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

He was a bad man,
That old Stagolee.

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

I remember one September, on a cold and night
de Lyon 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 shot your last"

The woman asked the sheriff, said "How can be?
You got all them bad men, but you get Stagolee"
Deputies took their 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 hundred thousand
Loaded with rifles and a great big Gatling gun
On Friday we condemned him, the he lowered his head
On we hanged him, I was glad to see him dead