Maggie Mae chords by The Traditional

Chords with lyrics

MAGGIE MAE Traditional Liverpool Song


Intro:

D MajorD G+G D MajorD A augmentedA

(repeat as many times as you like!)


Verse 1:

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

Chorus:

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


Verse 2:

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

Chorus:

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

Optional instrumental chorus


Verse 3:

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


Chorus:

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