Maggie Mae

Intro: D  G  D  A  


verse 1 

    D                               G 
Now gather round me sailor boys and listen to me plea,  
D                                  A 
And when you hear me tale you’ll pity me 
          D                   G 
For I was a goddamned fool in the port of Liverpool  
D                   A                D               
The first time that I came home from sea  
  G                                          D 
I was paid off at the Home, from a voyage to Sierra Leone: 
                            A 
Two pounds ten and sixpence was me pay. 
          D                     G  
With a pocket full of tin I was soon taken in 
     A                            D 
By a girl with the name of Maggie May 


[Refrão]

    G                           D  
Oh, Maggie Maggie May they have taken her away 
                                           A 
And she'll never walk down Lime Street any more. 
D                              G 
She robbed so many sailors and captains of the whalers 
     D             A              D      
That dirty robbing no good Maggie May 


verse 2 

G                          D 
Oh well do I remember when I first met Maggie May, 
                                         A                                           
She was cruising up and down Old Canning Place, 
        D                        G 
She'd a figure so divine, like a frigate of the line, 
    A                        D 
And me being a sailor I gave chase. 
     G                      D 
Next morning I awoke, I was flat and stoney broke, 
                                       A                                     
No jacket, trousers, waistcoat could I find. 
       D                              G 
When I asked her where they were, she said "Oh my dear sir, 
        A                              D 
They're down in Kelly's, locker number nine!" 


[Refrão]

    G                           D  
Oh, Maggie Maggie May they have taken her away 
                                           A 
And she'll never walk down Lime Street any more. 
D                              G 
She robbed so many sailors and captains of the whalers 
     D             A              D      
That dirty robbing no good Maggie May 

Optional Instrumental Chorus 


verse 3 

G                               D 
To the pawnshop I did go but no clothes there did I find, 
                                          A                           
And the policeman came and took that girl away, 
    D                         G 
The judge he guilty found her of robbing a homeward bounder, 
    A                               D 
And paid her passage back to Botany Bay 


[Refrão]

    G                           D  
Oh, Maggie Maggie May they have taken her away 
                                           A 
And she'll never walk down Lime Street any more. 
D                              G 
She robbed so many sailors and captains of the whalers 
     D             A              D      
That dirty robbing no good Maggie May 

(repeat Chorus to end)