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Posted By: Jim Dixon
11-Oct-11 - 01:27 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Music-hall songs sung by Will Fyffe
Subject: Lyr Add: MAGGIE (Will Fyffe)
My transcription from the album "I Belong to Glasgow: Greatest Hits of Will Fyffe" (2011), as found at Spotify:


MAGGIE
As sung by Will Fyffe

I think I've coorted aw the bonnie lassies in the toon,
But ma mother she's advised me that it's time to settle doon.
I've got so many sweethearts that I don't know which to choose.
Whichever one I marry, well, the rest I'm bound to lose.

CHORUS: For there's Maggie, there's Jeannie, there's Katie, and there's Kinnie(?) and their cheeks are like the rose,
But I've heard the mavis singing where a bonnie lassie grows.
[She's just like her mother; she comes frae Balquhidder(?)]* and she's promised to be mine,
And though the others they can come tae the weddin for the sake of auld lang syne.

Maggie she comes straight indeed(?) She's workin at the mill.
Jean's been lookin for a job; I think she's lookin still;
But Bella's taen ma fancy and the others hae no use,
For she's the only dochter an they've got a public hoose.

[Repeat chorus twice, making the following substitutions for the words in brackets above:]
[On chorus 2:] Kind, kind and gentle is she
[On chorus 3:] In my ain wee hoose we're goin to settle doon
[These seem to be quotes from other songs. He sings them a cappella.]