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It was early, early one morning |
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When i heard my bulldog bark, |
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T'was staggolee and billy delyon |
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Squabbling in the dark. |
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Staggolee told billy delyon |
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“what do you think of that? |
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You win all my money, lord! |
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You spit in my stetson hat" |
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Staggolee were walking |
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In the red hot brawling sun, |
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Says: “bring me my six-shooter, |
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Lord i wants my fourty-one" |
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Staggolee were walking |
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Through the mud and through the sand |
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Says: “i feel mistreated this morning, |
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I could kill most any man" |
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Billy delyons told staggolee: |
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“please don't take my life, |
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I got three helpless children, |
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One poor, beautiful wife" |
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“i don't care nothing ‘bout your children |
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And nothing about your wife |
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You done mistreated me, billy, |
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And i'm bound to take your life". |
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He shot him three times in the shoulder, lord, |
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He shot him three times in the side. |
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Well, the last time he shot him |
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Caused billy lyons to die. |
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Staggolee told mrs. billy: |
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“you don't believe your man is dead? |
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Come on into the barroom, |
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See the hole i shot in his head!" |
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The high-sheriff told the deputies: |
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“get your pistols and come with me! |
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We got to go'n arrest the bad man |
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Known as staggolee" |
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The deputies took their pistols |
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They laid them on the shelf, |
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“if you want that bad man staggolee |
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You have to arrest him yourself!" |
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The high-sheriff asked the bartender |
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“who can that bad man be?" |
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“speak softly!?, said the bartender, |
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“that bad man's staggolee" |
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He touched old stag on the shoulder, |
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“say, stag, why do you run?" |
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“i don't run, white folk, |
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When i got my fourty-one" |
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The hangman put the mask on, |
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Tied his hands behind his back, |
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Sprung the trap on staggolee, |
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But his neck refused to crack. |
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The hangman, he got frightened, |
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Said: “chief, you see how it be, |
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I can't hang this man, lord, |
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You better set him free" |
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Three-hundred dollar funeral, |
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Thousand dollar hearse, |
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Satisfaction! “undertaker, |
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Put stag on down in the earth!" |
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Staggolee told the devil: |
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“say, come on and have some fun! |
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You stick me with your pitchfork, |
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And i'll shoot you with my fourty-one" |
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Staggolee took the pitchfork |
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And he laid it on a shelf, |
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He says: “stand back, tom devil, lord, |
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I'm gonna rule hell by myself." |
