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Song title: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Stagalee

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Three traditional versions of the song from murder ballads. nicks version is also available. further details (and the actual book nick edited from) are also available.

Stagolee
Bad man stagalee when he bad,
He bad wid a gun
Stagalee, stagalee --- you must-a been a sinner
Evry- christmas eve they give stagalee a dinner
Bad man stagalee, when he bad
He bad wid a gun.

Dont you remember you remember
One dark stormy night
Stagalee and bill o. lion
Dey had dat noble fight.

Bill o. lion tole stagalee
Please dont take my life
I got three little children
And a dear lil lovinwife

Stagalee told billy o. lion
I dont care for your three lil children
Or even your lovin wife
You stole mah stetson hat
And Im goin to take yolife

Stagalee pulled out his forty-four
It went boom boom boom
It wasnt long fore bill o. lion
Wvere layinon de flo

Stagalees woman she went to her boss
Said, please give me some change.
Dey got my baby in de station house
Anmah business musberanged.

Stagalee asked his woman
How much change has you got?
She run her hanin her stocking feet
And pulled out a hundred spot.
She had to get momoney.

From southern folk ballads, mcneill collected from vera hall, al 1947

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

He was a bad man
That mean old stagolee

Stagolee shot billy de lyons
What do you think about that?
Shot him down in cold blood
Because he stole his stetson hat;

He was a bad man
That mean old stagolee

Billy de lyons said, stagolee
Please dont take my life
Ive got two little babes
And a darling, loving wife;

You are a bad man
You mean old stagolee.

What do I care about your two little babes,
Your darling loving wife? ,
You done stole my stetson hat
Im bound to take your life;

He was a bad man,
That mean old stagolee.

The judge said, stagolee,
What you doing in here? ,
You done shot mr. billy de lyons,
You going to die in the electric chair;

He was a bad man
That mean old stagolee.

Twelve oclock they killed him
Head reached up high
Last thing that poor boy said,
My six-shooter never lied.

He was a bad man,
That mean old stagolee.

Stagolee
Chorus: stagolee, stagolee, hes the meanest man in town
When that boy starts gamblin, better lay your money down
Down in new orleans where they got that lyons club
Every step you step youre steppin in billy de lyons blood

I remember one september, on a cold and stormy night
Billy de lyon and stagolee, lord, they had a great big fight
Billy shot a seven, and stack he said hed pass
Stack said to billy de lyon, brother,
You done shot your last

The woman asked the sheriff, said how can this be?
You got all them bad men, but you cant get stagolee
Deputies took their badges and they laid them on the shelf
If you want to get that bad man, you get him by yourself

Now send for the policemen, a hundred thousand come
Loaded down with rifles and a great big gatling gun
On friday we condemned him, the judge he lowered his head
On saturday we hanged him, I was glad to see him dead

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