Misc Traditional – Stagolee (Ukulele)

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From Southern Folk Ballads, Mcneill Collected from Vera Hall, al 1947 [Verse 1]

C
[tab]C7
Ev'rybody knows

      F7
Spent one hundred dollars

        C
Just to buy him a suit of clothes

         G7
He was a bad man

                   C
That mean old Stagolee

[Verse 2]

     C
Stagolee shot Billy de Lyons,

C7
What do you think about that?

F7
Shot him down in cold blood

           C
Because he stole his Stetson hat;

         G7
He was a bad man

                   C
That mean old Stagolee

[Verse 3]

C
Billy de Lyons said, "Stagolee

C7
Please don't take my life

         F7
I've got two little babes

      C
And a darling, loving wife;

          G7
You are a bad man

                  C
You mean old Stagolee."

[Verse 4]

         C
"What do I care about your two little babes,

     C7
Your darling loving wife?,

F7
You done stole my Stetson hat

    C
I'm bound to take your life."

         G7
He was a bad man,

                   C
That mean old Stagolee

[Verse 5]

    C
The judge said, "Stagolee,

     C7
What you doing in here?,

         F7
You done shot Mr. Billy de Lyons,

             C
You going to die in the electric chair."

         G7
He was a bad man

                   C
That mean old Stagolee

[Verse 6]

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Twelve o'clock they killed him

C7
Head reached up high

F7
Last thing that poor boy said,

    C
"My six-shooter never lied."

         G7
He was a bad man,

                   C
That mean old Stagolee