Misc Traditional – Maggie May (Guitar)

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Now, gather round you sailor boys, and listen to my plea

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And when you've heard my tale, pity me.

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For I was a ruddy fool in the port of Liverpool

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The first time that I come home from the sea

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I was paid off at the hove from the port of Sierra Leone

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Four pounds ten a month it was me pay

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With a pocket full of tin, I was very soon took 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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For she robbed so many sailors and captains of the whalers

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That dirty, robbin', 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 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 just a sailor, I gave chase

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Well in the 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, "My very good sir,

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They're down in Kelly's pawnshop 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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For she robbed so many sailors and captains of the whalers

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That dirty, robbin', no good, Maggie May

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Well, to the pawnshop I did go, no clothes could I find

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So the policeman come and took that girl away

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Well the judge he guilty found her, of robbin' a homeward-bounder

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And paid her passage out 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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For she robbed so many sailors and captains of the whalers

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That dirty, robbin', no good, Maggie May

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That dirty, robbin', no good, Maggie May