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 Nick edited from) are also available.

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

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

Bill O. Lion Stagalee
Please don't take my
I got little children
And a dear lil'

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

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

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

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

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

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

He was a bad man
That old Stagolee

Stagolee Billy de Lyons
What do you about that?
Shot him down in cold
Because he stole his Stetson

He was a bad man
That mean old

Billy de said, Stagolee
don't take my life
I've got two babes
And a darling, wife;

You are a bad man
You old Stagolee.

What do I care about two little babes,
darling loving wife?,
You done my Stetson hat
I'm bound to take your

He was a bad man,
mean old Stagolee.

The said, Stagolee,
you doing in here?,
You done Mr. Billy de Lyons,
You to die in the electric chair;

He was a bad man
That old Stagolee.

Twelve o'clock they him
Head reached up
Last thing 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 money down
in New Orleans where they got that Lyon's Club
Every step you step you're steppin' in Billy de Lyon's

I remember one September, on a and stormy night
Billy de and Stagolee, Lord, they had a great big fight
Billy shot a seven, and he said he'd pass
Stack said to de Lyon, "Brother,
You done 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 want to get bad man, you get him by yourself"

Now send for the policemen, a thousand come
Loaded down with rifles and a big Gatling gun
On Friday we him, the judge he lowered his head
On Saturday we him, I was glad to see him dead