The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #61609 Message #1041327
Posted By: kendall
24-Oct-03 - 07:31 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Maggie May (from A. L. Lloyd)
Subject: Lyr Add: MAGGIE MAY
I recorded this version for Folk Legacy:
Come all ye sailors bold And when me tale is told I know you all will sadly pity me, For I was a bloomin' fool In the port of Liverpool On the voyage when I first paid off from sea.
They paid me off at home for a voyage to Leone, Two pounds ten a month had been me pay While jingling me tin I was sadly taken in By a lady by the name of Maggie May.
When I sailed into her I didn't have a care She was cruising up and down old Canning Place Dressed in a gown so fine like a frigate of the line And me being a sailor gave her chase.
And me Maggie Maggie May They've taken you away You'll slave upon Van Diemans cruel shore You robbed many a sailor many a drunken whaler But you'll never cruise down Paradise Street no more.
Next day when I awoke I found that I was broke I didn't have a penny to me name I had to hock me suit, me "John L's" and me boots Down in the parkway pawnshop number 9.
She was chained and sent away from Liverpool one day The lads did cheer as she sailed down the bay And every sailor lad, he only was too glad That thay sent the old thing off to Botany Bay
And me Maggie Maggie May they have taken you away And you'll slave upon Van Dieman's cruel shore You've robbed many a sailor many a drunken whaler But you'll never cruise down Paradise Street no more.