Luyện nghe bài hát Stagalee

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

you remember you remember
One dark stormy
Stagalee and Bill O.
Dey had dat fight.

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

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

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

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

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

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

was a bad man,
knows.
Spent one dollars
to buy him a suit of dothes.

He was a bad man
That mean old

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

He was a bad man
That old Stagolee

de Lyons 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,
Your loving wife?,
You stole my Stetson hat
I'm to take your life;

He was a bad man,
That old Stagolee.

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

He was a bad man
mean old Stagolee.

Twelve they killed him
reached up high
Last thing that boy said,
"My never 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 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 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 shot 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 down with and a great big Gatling gun
On Friday we condemned him, the he lowered his head
On Saturday we hanged him, I was to see him dead