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Thread #61609 Message #991461
Posted By: Roberto
27-Jul-03 - 11:42 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Maggie May (from A. L. Lloyd)
Subject: Lyr Req: A. L. Lloyd's Maggie May
Please help me correct and complete this text, Maggie May as sung by A. L: Lloyd, in English Drinking Songs, Topic TSCD496. Thank you. Roberto.
Here is what I get:
Now come all you young sailors and listen to me plea And when you've heard me tale, you'll pity me For I was a goddam (?) fool in the port of Liverpool The very first time I came home from sea
Now, I paid off at the Home (?), from the port of Sierre Leone Three-pound-ten a month it was me pay Well, I wasted all me tin whilst (?) drinking up the gin With a little girl whose name was Maggie May
Now well do I remember where I first met Maggie May She was cruising up and down in Canning Place She was dressed up mighty fine, like a frigate of the line So being a ranting sailor I gave chase
I kept right on her a track, she went on the other tack But I caught her and I broke (?) her mizzen line Next morning I awoke with a head (???) bent (?)and broke No coat, no vest, no trousers could I find
I asked her where they were, she said – Me good kind sir They're down at ... (?????) pawnshop, number nine Now, you've had your cake and bun, and it's time for you to run Or you'll never make the dockside, lad, in time
To the pawnshop I did go but no trousers could I find And the police came and took that girl away And the judge he found her guilty, of robbing a homeward-bounder So now she's doing time in Botany Bay
Oh Maggie, Maggie May, they've taken you away Never more to roam alone (?)down Canning Place For you've you robbed too many whalers, and you've ... (?????) so many sailors And you'll never see old Lime Street anymore