Maggie Mae chords by The Traditional

MAGGIE MAE Traditional Liverpool Song


Intro:

D  G  D  A

(repeat as many times as you like!)


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

Chorus:

    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!"


Chorus:

    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


Chorus:

    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