The Liverpool Sailors’ Home in Canning Place, c. 1860.
The sailor is “paid off at the Home” and meets Maggie “cruising up and down” the square.
In one version of the lyrics she is wearing a “crin-o-line”, the bell-shaped dress worn by the woman in the foreground
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(4:4)
(Gmajor)
(G) (oh…)
(C)
(G6 G) (taken)
(D) (more)
(G) (judge he guilty…)
(C) (robbing a…)
(D7) (dirty…)
(G) (mae)
(C) (port of)
(G) (she returned)
(C) (week)
(G) (was my)
(D) (pay)
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oh dirty maggie mae
they have taken her away
and she’ll never walk down lime street any more
oh the judge he guilty found her
for robbing a homeward bounder
that dirty no good robbing maggie mae
’tis the port of liverpool
they returned me to
two pounds / ten a week
that was my pay
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(“maggie may” (or “maggie mae”) is a traditional ‘Liverpool’ folk song (‘Roud #1757’) about a prostitute who robbed a “homeward bounder”: a sailor coming home from a round trip)
(‘john manifold’, in his Penguin Australian Song Book, described it as “A foc’sle song of ‘Liverpool’ origin apparently, but immensely popular among seamen all over the world”)
(it became widely circulated in a skiffle version from the late 1950s)
(in 1964, the composer and lyricist ‘Lionel Bart’ (the creator of the musical Oliver!), used the song and its backstory as the basis of a musical set around the ‘Liverpool Docks’)
(the show, also called Maggie May, ran for 2 years in london)
(in 1970 a truncated version of the song performed by the ‘beatles’ was included on their album “Let It Be”)
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