Misc Traditional - Maggie mae

Now ^Dgather round me sailor boys and ^Glisten to me plea, ^DAnd when you hear me tale you’ll pi^Aty me For I was ^Da goddamned fool in ^Gthe port of Liverpool ^DThe first time that ^AI came home from ^Dsea I ^Gwas paid off at the Home, from a voyage to ^DSierra Leone: Two pounds ten and sixpence ^Awas me pay. With a poc^Dket full of tin I was ^Gsoon taken in By a ^Agirl with the name of Maggie ^DMay

Oh, ^GMaggie Maggie May they have ^Dtaken her away And she'll never walk down Lime Street any ^Amore. ^DShe robbed so many sailors and ^Gcaptains of the whalers That ^Ddirty robbing ^Ano good Maggie ^DMay

^GOh well do I remember when ^DI first met Maggie May, She was cruising up and down Old Canning ^APlace, She'd a ^Dfigure so divine, like a ^Gfrigate of the line, And ^Ame being a sailor I gave ^Dchase. Next ^Gmorning I awoke, I was ^Dflat and stoney broke, No jacket, trousers, waistcoat could I ^Afind. When I ^Dasked her where they were, she ^Gsaid "Oh my dear sir, They're ^Adown in Kelly's, locker number ^Dnine!"

Oh, ^GMaggie Maggie May they have ^Dtaken her away And she'll never walk down Lime Street any ^Amore. ^DShe robbed so many sailors and ^Gcaptains of the whalers That ^Ddirty robbing ^Ano good Maggie ^DMay

^GTo the pawnshop I did go but no ^Dclothes there did I find, And the policeman came and took that girl ^Aaway, The ^Djudge he guilty found her ^Gof robbing a homeward bounder, And ^Apaid her passage back to Botany ^DBay

Oh, ^GMaggie Maggie May they have ^Dtaken her away And she'll never walk down Lime Street any ^Amore. ^DShe robbed so many sailors and ^Gcaptains of the whalers That ^Ddirty robbing ^Ano good Maggie ^DMay