Luyện nghe bài hát Stagalee

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

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

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

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

Stagalee Billy O. Lion
I care for your three lil' children
Or even lovin' wife
You mah Stetson hat
And I'm goin to yo'life

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

woman she went 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 her stocking feet
And out a hundred spot.
She had to get mo'money.

From Southern Folk Ballads, Collected from Vera 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

Stagolee shot Billy de
What do you think about
him down in cold blood
Because he stole his hat;

He was a bad man
That mean old

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

You are a bad man
You old Stagolee.

What do I about 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
mean old Stagolee.

Twelve they killed him
reached up high
Last thing that 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 starts gamblin', lay your money down
Down in New Orleans where they got that Lyon's
Every step you step you're in Billy de Lyon's blood

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

The woman the sheriff, said "How can this be?
You got all them bad men, but you 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
down with 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