Maggie May lyrics

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Now you jolly sailor lads, come listen to my tale,
I`m sure you will have cause to pity me,
I was a damned young fool in the port of Liverpool,
When I called there on my first port home from sea.

cho: Oh Maggie, Maggie May
They have taken her away
To slave upon Van Dieman`s cruel shore.
Oh, you robbed so many whalers, and dosed so many sailors
But you`ll never cruise `round Peter Street no more.

I was staying at the Home, from a voyage to Sierre Leone,
And two-pound-ten a month was all my pay,
As I jingled with my tin, I was easy taken in,
By a little girl up there called Maggie May.

cho:
Oh. I`ll never forget the day when I first met Maggie May,
She was standing on a corner at Canning Place,
In a full-sized crin-o-line, like a frigate of the line,
And as she saw I was a sailor I gave chase.

cho:

She gave me a saucy nod, and I, like a farmer`s clod,
Let her take me line abreast in tow,
And under all plain sail, we ran before the gale
And to the Crow`s Nest Tavern we did go/

cho:

Next morning when I woke, I found that I was broke,
No shoes or shirt or trousers could I find,
When I asked her where they were, she answers `My dear sir,
They`re down in Lewis` pawnshop number nine.`

cho:
So to Lewis` I did go, but no clothing could I find,
And the policeman took that wicked girl away,
And the judge he guilty found her, of robbing a homeward-bounder,
And now she`s doing time in Botany Bay.

cho:

She was chained and sent away from Liverpool one day,
The lads all cheered as she sailed down the bay,
And every sailor lad, he only was too glad
They`d sent that old whore out to Botany Bay.

cho:

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