Staggolee - Pacific Gas & Electric

[03:49.0]Staggolee - Pacific Gas & Electric
[03:49.0]It was early early one morning
[03:49.0]When i heard my bulldog bark
[03:49.0]T'was staggolee and billy delyon
[03:49.0]Squabbling in the dark
[03:49.0]Staggolee told billy delyon
[03:49.0]"what do you think of that
[03:49.0]You win all my money lord
[03:49.0]You spit in my stetson hat"
[03:49.0]Staggolee were walking
[03:49.0]In the red hot brawling sun
[03:49.0]Says: "bring me my six-shooter
[03:49.0]Lord i wants my fourty-one"
[03:49.0]Staggolee were walking
[03:49.0]Through the mud and through the sand
[03:49.0]Says: "i feel mistreated this morning
[03:49.0]I could kill most any man"
[03:49.0]Billy delyons told staggolee:
[03:49.0]"please don't take my life
[03:49.0]I got three helpless children
[03:49.0]One poor beautiful wife"
[03:49.0]"i don't care nothing 'bout your children
[03:49.0]And nothing about your wife
[03:49.0]You done mistreated me billy
[03:49.0]And i'm bound to take your life"
[03:49.0]He shot him three times in the shoulder lord
[03:49.0]He shot him three times in the side
[03:49.0]Well the last time he shot him
[03:49.0]Caused billy lyons to die
[03:49.0]Staggolee told mrs billy:
[03:49.0]"you don't believe your man is dead
[03:49.0]Come on into the barroom
[03:49.0]See the hole i shot in his head "
[03:49.0]The high-sheriff told the deputies:
[03:49.0]"get your pistols and come with me
[03:49.0]We got to go'n arrest the bad man
[03:49.0]Known as staggolee"
[03:49.0]The deputies took their pistols
[03:49.0]They laid them on the shelf
[03:49.0]"if you want that bad man staggolee
[03:49.0]You have to arrest him yourself "
[03:49.0]The high-sheriff asked the bartender
[03:49.0]"who can that bad man be "
[03:49.0]"speak softly said the bartender
[03:49.0]"that bad man's staggolee"
[03:49.0]He touched old stag on the shoulder
[03:49.0]"say stag why do you run "
[03:49.0]"i don't run white folk
[03:49.0]When i got my fourty-one"
[03:49.0]The hangman put the mask on
[03:49.0]Tied his hands behind his back
[03:49.0]Sprung the trap on staggolee
[03:49.0]But his neck refused to crack
[03:49.0]The hangman he got frightened
[03:49.0]Said: "chief you see how it be
[03:49.0]I can't hang this man lord
[03:49.0]You better set him free"
[03:49.0]Three-hundred dollar funeral
[03:49.0]Thousand dollar hearse
[03:49.0]Satisfaction "undertaker
[03:49.0]Put stag on down in the earth "
[03:49.0]Staggolee told the devil:
[03:49.0]"say come on and have some fun
[03:49.0]You stick me with your pitchfork
[03:49.0]And i'll shoot you with my fourty-one"
[03:49.0]Staggolee took the pitchfork
[03:49.0]And he laid it on a shelf
[03:49.0]He says: "stand back tom devil lord
[03:49.0]I'm gonna rule hell by myself "