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, --- you must-a been a sinner
Christmas eve they give Stagalee 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. tole Stagalee
Please don't my life
I got three children
And a dear lil'

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

Stagalee out his forty-four
It went boom boom
It long' fore Bill O. Lion
layin'on de flo'

Stagalee's woman she 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 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 old Stagolee

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

He was a bad man
That old Stagolee

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

You are a bad man
You old Stagolee.

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

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 chair;

He was a bad man
That old Stagolee.

Twelve o'clock they him
Head up high
thing that poor boy said,
"My never lied."

He was a bad man,
mean old Stagolee.

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

I remember one September, on a and stormy night
de Lyon 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 the sheriff, said "How can this be?
You got all them bad men, but you get Stagolee"
Deputies took their badges and they them on the shelf
"If you want to get bad man, you get him by yourself"

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