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Stagolee - Mississippi John Hurt

Stagolee was a bad man

They go down in a coal mine one night

Robbed a coal mine

They's gambling down there

And they placed themselves

Just like they wanted to be

So they wouldn't hit each

Other when they was shooting

Money lying all over the floor

There was one bad guy down

There he thought he was

That was Billy De Lyon

So he had a big 45 laying down by the side of him

When they got placed why

Stagolee spoke to him

He says "Boys

Look at the money lying down here on the floor"

Says "What would we do if old

Stagolee and them was to walk in here "

This guy picked up his 45 he says

"I wouldn't make a bit of difference"

Says "Stag's gun won't shoot a bit

Harder than this one"

About that time Stag knocked his hat off

And his partner taking care of the rest

When he knocked his hat off he

He kind of remembered that was Stagolee

And he commenced begging like this

Policin' officer how can it be

You can rest everybody but cruel Stagolee

That bad man oh cruel Stagolee

He said "Stagolee Stagolee

Please don't take my life"

Says "I got two little babies

And a darlin' lovin' wife"

He's a bad man oh cruel Stagolee

Here's the answer Stagolee gave him

What I care about your two little babies

Darlin' lovin' wife

Says "You done stole my Stetson hat

I'm bound to take your life"

It's a magic hat oh cruel Stagolee

Boom boom boom boom with a forty-four

When I spied poor Billy De Lyon

He is lyin' down on the floor

That bad man oh cruel Stagolee

Gentleman of the jury what you think that

Says "Stagolee killed Billy de Lyon

About a five-dollar Stetson hat"

He's a bad man oh cruel Stagolee

Standing on the gallows Stagolee did curse

The Judge said "Let's kill him

For he killed some of us"

He's a bad man oh cruel Stagolee

Standing on the gallows

His head was way up high

At twelve o'clock they killed him

They's all glad to see him die

He's a bad man oh cruel Stagolee

Policin' officer how can it be

You can rest everybody but cruel Stagolee

That bad man oh cruel Stagolee