Luyện nghe bài hát Stagalee

Three traditional versions of the song from Murder Ballads. Nick's version is also available. Further (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
Christmas 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 Bill O.
Dey had dat fight.

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

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

pulled out his forty-four
It boom boom boom
It long' fore Bill O. Lion
WVere layin'on de

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

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

From Southern Folk Ballads, McNeill 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 about that?
Shot him down in blood
Because he his Stetson hat;

He was a bad man
mean old Stagolee

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

You are a bad man
You old Stagolee.

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

He was a bad man,
mean 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
Head up high
Last thing that boy said,
"My six-shooter lied."

He was a bad man,
That old Stagolee.

chorus: Stagolee, Stagolee, the meanest man in town
When that boy starts gamblin', better lay your money
Down in New Orleans they got that Lyon's Club
Every step you step 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 big fight
Billy a seven, and Stack he said he'd pass
Stack said to de Lyon, "Brother,
You done your last"

The woman the sheriff, said "How can this 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 thousand come
Loaded with rifles and a great big Gatling gun
On Friday we condemned him, the judge he lowered his
On we hanged him, I was glad to see him dead