《Staggolee》歌词

[00:00:00] Staggolee - Pacific Gas & Electric

[00:00:13] It was early early one morning

[00:00:16] When i heard my bulldog bark

[00:00:19] T'was staggolee and billy delyon

[00:00:21] Squabbling in the dark

[00:00:25] Staggolee told billy delyon

[00:00:28] "what do you think of that

[00:00:31] You win all my money lord

[00:00:34] You spit in my stetson hat"

[00:00:37] Staggolee were walking

[00:00:40] In the red hot brawling sun

[00:00:43] Says: "bring me my six-shooter

[00:00:46] Lord i wants my fourty-one"

[00:00:49] Staggolee were walking

[00:00:52] Through the mud and through the sand

[00:00:55] Says: "i feel mistreated this morning

[00:00:58] I could kill most any man"

[00:01:02] Billy delyons told staggolee:

[00:01:05] "please don't take my life

[00:01:08] I got three helpless children

[00:01:11] One poor beautiful wife"

[00:01:14] "i don't care nothing 'bout your children

[00:01:17] And nothing about your wife

[00:01:20] You done mistreated me billy

[00:01:23] And i'm bound to take your life"

[00:01:26] He shot him three times in the shoulder lord

[00:01:30] He shot him three times in the side

[00:01:32] Well the last time he shot him

[00:01:35] Caused billy lyons to die

[00:01:39] Staggolee told mrs billy:

[00:01:42] "you don't believe your man is dead

[00:01:45] Come on into the barroom

[00:01:48] See the hole i shot in his head "

[00:01:51] The high-sheriff told the deputies:

[00:01:54] "get your pistols and come with me

[00:01:57] We got to go'n arrest the bad man

[00:02:00] Known as staggolee"

[00:02:03] The deputies took their pistols

[00:02:06] They laid them on the shelf

[00:02:09] "if you want that bad man staggolee

[00:02:12] You have to arrest him yourself "

[00:02:15] The high-sheriff asked the bartender

[00:02:18] "who can that bad man be "

[00:02:21] "speak softly said the bartender

[00:02:25] "that bad man's staggolee"

[00:02:28] He touched old stag on the shoulder

[00:02:31] "say stag why do you run "

[00:02:34] "i don't run white folk

[00:02:37] When i got my fourty-one"

[00:02:40] The hangman put the mask on

[00:02:43] Tied his hands behind his back

[00:02:46] Sprung the trap on staggolee

[00:02:49] But his neck refused to crack

[00:02:52] The hangman he got frightened

[00:02:55] Said: "chief you see how it be

[00:02:58] I can't hang this man lord

[00:03:01] You better set him free"

[00:03:05] Three-hundred dollar funeral

[00:03:08] Thousand dollar hearse

[00:03:11] Satisfaction "undertaker

[00:03:14] Put stag on down in the earth "

[00:03:17] Staggolee told the devil:

[00:03:19] "say come on and have some fun

[00:03:23] You stick me with your pitchfork

[00:03:26] And i'll shoot you with my fourty-one"

[00:03:29] Staggolee took the pitchfork

[00:03:32] And he laid it on a shelf

[00:03:35] He says: "stand back tom devil lord

[00:03:38] I'm gonna rule hell by myself "