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GUEST,Julia L Tune Req: Not THAT Maggie May (11) Tune Req: Not THAT Maggie May 04 Mar 20

Hi folks, Here's a different song about Maggie May for which I would like to find the tune. It's from Fanny Eckstorm's papers in Orono Maine. Taken down from Franz Blanchard, Brewer ME in 1934 who learned it from a Newfoundland seal hunter around 1899.

Maggie May

When we set sail to chase the whale
No merrier crew than we
Ever left their native shore
To sail the bounding sea
And some were sad and some were glad
But I sang with glee
For I sang to marry sweet Maggie May
When I got home from sea

No chorus

Other verses describe him returning to find sh has run off with a guy from Boston

many thanks

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