Irish traditional song lyrics — collected by Beer Belly Band.
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Oh, Maggie, Maggie Mae, they have taken you away
And you’ll never walk down Lang Street anymore
You robbed so many sailors, and the captains of the whalers
You’re a dirty, rotten, no good, Maggie Mae
Gather round ye sailor boys and listen to my plea
When you hear tale I know you’ll pity me
For I was a bloody fool, in the port of Liverpool
The first time that I came home from the sea
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I never will forget, the night when first we met
I was walking down along old Kenning Place
When a figure so divine, like a frigate on the line
The kind of girl a sailor likes to chase
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Well, I woke up in my bed, with a thundering in my head
All my clothes and my money stole away
And as I walked along the street, all the ladies I did meet
Said, “You’ll find them down in pawn shop number nine.”
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