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Thread #34232 Message #3246424
Posted By: GUEST,Me to you
28-Oct-11 - 09:32 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords: Ghost of Maggie's Sailor (Peterson)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE GHOST OF MAGGIE'S SAILOR (Peterson)
THE GHOST OF MAGGIE'S SAILOR (Colleen Peterson)
In the morning the dawn seems to echo this yarn Of a sailing ship a young man, he once sailed upon Down at the harbor, far from the shore Comes an anxious heart wail like the loud waves that roar
For he once sailed the waves of this raging sea Another life lost, oh a sailor was he And the lighthouse still stands where his vessel hit land As the early dawn tells of his tale
CHORUS Singing Maggie, oh Maggie, oh look what I've done I was coming for to marry you but got lost in this fog Though my heart ceases beating your memory lives on Oh Maggie come to me meet me with the dawn
Young Maggie she waited, for her sailor that night Down at the harbor she saw no one in sight Thinking maybe he's changed his mind, sailors oft do There were tears in her eyes, but her love still was true
And as dawn came a creeping, a crowd gathered round They were looking at the ship there, that had gone aground No man aboard and all were thought to be drowned Maggie came down to the wreck they had found
And with tears in her eyes, she could see what it was Her sailor was lost coming to meet her because For to marry fair Maggie and steal her away Now he was gone forever and she thought she heard him say
Chorus
And one night as the fog quickly rolled in they say Maggie was seen down by that same death bay That her lover was lost, never heard from again Maggie jumped in the brine to be loved by her man
And sometimes if you stand in the cold early dawn They say you can see two white waves traveling on And they're hand in hand dancing, as the wind they do flow Sometimes you hear them singing through the waves as they go
Oh singing Maggie, my Maggie, I am free at last Now that you're here beside me, the pain it has passed We are together, through wind fog and rain, We can dance the wide ocean, and we're gonna kiss the wild rivers Now that you're here beside me again