Misc Traditional – Maggie Mae (Guitar Intro)

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Now gather round me sailor boys and listen to me plea, 

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And when you hear me tale you’ll pity me

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For I was a goddamned fool in the port of Liverpool 

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The first time that I came home from sea 

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I was paid off at the Home, from a voyage to Sierra Leone:

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Two pounds ten and sixpence was me pay.

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With a pocket full of tin I was soon taken in

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By a girl with the name of Maggie May

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Oh, Maggie Maggie May they have taken her away

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And she'll never walk down Lime Street any more.

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She robbed so many sailors and captains of the whalers

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That dirty robbing no good Maggie May

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Oh well do I remember when I first met Maggie May,

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She was cruising up and down Old Canning Place,

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She'd a figure so divine, like a frigate of the line,

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And me being a sailor I gave chase.

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Next morning I awoke, I was flat and stoney broke,

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No jacket, trousers, waistcoat could I find.

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When I asked her where they were, she said "Oh my dear sir,

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They're down in Kelly's, locker number nine!"

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Oh, Maggie Maggie May they have taken her away

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And she'll never walk down Lime Street any more.

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She robbed so many sailors and captains of the whalers

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That dirty robbing no good Maggie May

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To the pawnshop I did go but no clothes there did I find,

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And the policeman came and took that girl away,

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The judge he guilty found her of robbing a homeward bounder,

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And paid her passage back to Botany Bay

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Oh, Maggie Maggie May they have taken her away

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And she'll never walk down Lime Street any more.

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She robbed so many sailors and captains of the whalers

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That dirty robbing no good Maggie May