Maggie May

(Traditional)

1. I was paid from the pool in the port of Liverpool

    And three pounds ten it was me pay

    With a pocket full of tin, I was very soon taken in

     By a girl with the name of Maggie May.

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    Oh Maggie, Maggie May they have taken her away

     And she’ll never walk down Lime Street any more

     For she robbed do many sailors and the captains of the whalers

     That dirty robbin’ no good Maggie May.

2. Now the first time I saw Maggie, she took my breath away

    She was cruising up and down old Canning Place

    With a figure so divine, like a frigate of the line

    And me, being a sailor, I gave chase.

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3.  In the morning I awoke, I was flat and stony broke

     No jacket, trousers or waistcoat could I find

     And when I asked her where, she said my very dear sir

     They’re down at Kelly’s pawn-shop number nine.

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4.  To the pawn-shop I did go but no clothes there did I find

     The policeman came and took that girl away

     The judge he guilty found her of robbing homeward bounders

     And paid her passage off to Botany Bay.

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