If you’ll git me out’n dis trouble I’ll do as much for you.
Ain’t it a pity, ain’t it a shame?
Stagolee was shot, but he don’t want no name.
Stagolee, Stagolee, look what you done done:
Killed de best ol’ citerzen, now you’ll have to be hung.
Stagolee cried to de jury, “Please don’t take my life,
I have only three little children an’ one little lovin’ wife.”
Railroad Bill
Rail-road Bill might-y bad man, Shoot dem