Maggie May
sł. trad.
Oh, come all sailors bold and when my tale is told
To toil upon Van Dieman's cruel shore, 'cause you robbed many a whaler and many a drunken sailor. Now you'll never cruise 'round Liverpool any more. And two pound ten a month had been my pay, As I jingled in my tin I was sadly taken in By a lady, by the name of Maggie May.
I was cruising up and down old Canning Place, She was dressed in a gown so fine like a frigate of the line And I being s sailor I give chase.
Why I let her take my line abreast in tow, And under all plain sail we rode before the gale, And it's to the Crow's Nest tavern we did go.
And she got every penny that was mine, So I had to pop me suite, my John L's and my boots, Way down in far claim pawn shop number nine.
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