[00:12.88]It was early, early one morning
[00:15.54]When i heard my bulldog bark,
[00:18.66]T'was staggolee and billy delyon
[00:21.99]Squabbling in the dark.
[00:25.27]Staggolee told billy delyon
[00:28.00]“what do you think of that?
[00:31.00]You win all my money, lord!
[00:33.38]You spit in my stetson hat"
[00:37.41]Staggolee were walking
[00:40.09]In the red hot brawling sun,
[00:43.15]Says: “bring me my six-shooter,
[00:46.28]Lord i wants my fourty-one"
[00:49.66]Staggolee were walking
[00:52.72]Through the mud and through the sand
[00:55.60]Says: “i feel mistreated this morning,
[00:58.36]I could kill most any man"
[01:02.04]Billy delyons told staggolee:
[01:05.01]“please don't take my life,
[01:07.78]I got three helpless children,
[01:10.69]One poor, beautiful wife"
[01:13.77]“i don't care nothing ‘bout your children
[01:16.89]And nothing about your wife
[01:19.87]You done mistreated me, billy,
[01:22.79]And i'm bound to take your life".
[01:26.39]He shot him three times in the shoulder, lord,
[01:29.18]He shot him three times in the side.
[01:32.30]Well, the last time he shot him
[01:35.17]Caused billy lyons to die.
[01:38.64]Staggolee told mrs. billy:
[01:41.37]“you don't believe your man is dead?
[01:44.40]Come on into the barroom,
[01:47.41]See the hole i shot in his head!"
[01:50.81]The high-sheriff told the deputies:
[01:53.52]“get your pistols and come with me!
[01:56.64]We got to go'n arrest the bad man
[01:59.87]Known as staggolee"
[02:03.20]The deputies took their pistols
[02:06.06]They laid them on the shelf,
[02:08.98]“if you want that bad man staggolee
[02:12.05]You have to arrest him yourself!"
[02:15.28]The high-sheriff asked the bartender
[02:17.95]“who can that bad man be?"
[02:21.22]“speak softly!?, said the bartender,
[02:24.40]“that bad man's staggolee"
[02:27.26]He touched old stag on the shoulder,
[02:30.34]“say, stag, why do you run?"
[02:33.31]“i don't run, white folk,
[02:36.31]When i got my fourty-one"
[02:39.74]The hangman put the mask on,
[02:42.56]Tied his hands behind his back,
[02:45.54]Sprung the trap on staggolee,
[02:48.62]But his neck refused to crack.
[02:52.00]The hangman, he got frightened,
[02:54.71]Said: “chief, you see how it be,
[02:57.57]I can't hang this man, lord,
[03:01.14]You better set him free"
[03:04.22]Three-hundred dollar funeral,
[03:07.18]Thousand dollar hearse,
[03:09.91]Satisfaction! “undertaker,
[03:13.03]Put stag on down in the earth!"
[03:16.35]Staggolee told the devil:
[03:19.04]“say, come on and have some fun!
[03:22.01]You stick me with your pitchfork,
[03:24.88]And i'll shoot you with my fourty-one"
[03:28.42]Staggolee took the pitchfork
[03:31.13]And he laid it on a shelf,
[03:34.10]He says: “stand back, tom devil, lord,
[03:37.03]I'm gonna rule hell by myself."