Lyr. Add: STAGOLEE DONE KILL DAT BULLY
From Georgia; Odum and Johnson.

I got up one mornin' jes' 'bout four o'clock;
Stagolee shot bully; bully fell down on de flo',
Bully cry out: "dat fohty-fo' it hurts me so."
Stagolee done kill dat bully now.

Sent for de wagon, wagon didn't come,
Loaded down with pistols an' all dat gatlin' gun.
Stagolee done kill dat bully now.

Some give a nickel, some give a dime;
I didn't give a red copper cent, 'cause he's no friend o' mine.
Stagolee done kill dat bully now.

Fohty dollar coffin, eighty dollar hack,
Carried po' man to cemetery but failed to bring him back,
Ev'rybody been dodgin' Stagolee.

Pp. 197-198, no musical score.
Howard W. Odum and Guy B. Johnson, 1925, "The Negro and His Songs," Univ. North Carolina Press (reprinted Negro Universities Press).