Now gather round you sailor boys and listen to my plea and
When you’ve heard my tale you’ll pity me
For I was a real damned fool in the port of Liverpool
The first time that I came home from the sea……………..
We paid off at the home from the port of Sierra Leone and
Four pounds ten a month that was my pay
With a pocket full of tin I was very soon taken in by a
Girl with the name of Maggie May.
CHORUS
Oh Maggie Maggie May they have taken her away
And she’ll never walk down Lime street anymore
For she robbed so many sailors and captains of the whalers
That dirty robbin’ no good Maggie May.
Oh well I do remember when I first met Maggie May
She was cruising up and down old Canning Place
She’d a figure so divine like a frigate of the line
So me being a sailor I gave chase………..…CHORUS
Next morning when I awoke I was flat and stoney broke
No jacket trousers waistcoat I could find
When I asked her where they were she said - My very dear sir
They’re down in Kelly’s knocker number nine...CHORUS
To the pawnshop I did go but no clothes there I did find and
The policeman came and took that girl away
The judge he guilty found her of
Robbing the homeward bounder and
Paid her passage back to Botany Bay
CHORUS TWICE
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