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this song is by Roger Chartier
on the Sailor Songs CD

Maggie May
This is a Liverpool seaman's song,
The Beatles did a short version of it on
The "Let It Be" album

 

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

When you’ve heard my tale you’ll pity me

For I was a real damned fool in the port of Liverpool

The first time that I came home from the sea……………..

We paid off at the home from the port of Sierra Leone and

Four pounds ten a month that was my pay

With a pocket full of tin I was very soon taken in by a

Girl with the name of Maggie May.

CHORUS
Oh Maggie Maggie May they have taken her away

And she’ll never walk down Lime street anymore

For she robbed so many sailors and captains of the whalers

That dirty robbin’ no good Maggie May.

Oh well I do remember when I first met Maggie May

She was cruising up and down old Canning Place

She’d a figure so divine  like a frigate of the line

So me being a sailor  I gave chase………..…CHORUS

Next morning when I awoke I was flat and stoney broke

No jacket  trousers waistcoat I could find

When I asked her where they were she said - My very dear sir

They’re down in Kelly’s knocker number nine...CHORUS

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

The policeman came and took that girl away

The judge he guilty found her of

Robbing the homeward bounder and

Paid her passage back to Botany Bay

CHORUS TWICE  

Lyrics courtesy of www.sailorsongs.com