Maggie Mae chords

[INTRO]

[D] [G] [D] [A]

(repeat as many times as you like!)

[VERSE 1]

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

[CHORUS]

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

[VERSE 2]

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

[CHORUS]

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

Optional instrumental chorus

[VERSE 3]

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

[CHORUS]

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

(repeat chorus to end)