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Listen all you sailors and listen all you whalers
For when you hear this song you'll pity me
I was a flaming fool in the port of Liverpool
The first time that I came home from sea
We paid off in the hold of a ship called Marigold
Two pound ten a month it was me pay
And up there on the quay, waiting for me
Was a doxy by the name of Maggie May
Oh Maggie, Maggie May, they have taken you away
To slave upon that cruel Van Diemen's shore
For you robbed so many sailors, and doped so many whalers
You won't ever walk down Lime Street any more
Now when I steered into her I hadn't got a care
For she was cruising up and down Old Cannon Place
She was dressed in a crinoline like a frigate of the line
When she saw I was a sailor she give chase
Now she gave me a saucy nod and I like a great big clod
Let her take me line abreast and tow
And under all plain sail we fled before the gale
And to the Crow's Nest Tavern we did go
Oh Maggie, Maggie May, they have taken you away
To slave upon that cruel Van Diemen's shore
For you robbed so many sailors, and doped so many whalers
You won't ever walk down Lime Street any more
Well next morning I awoke stiff and stony broke
No shirt, no shoes, no breeches could I find
When I asked her where they were, she answered me "Young sir
They're down in Stanley's Lock Shop number nine"
And to a policeman on the beat at the corner of the street
To him I went and told me tale of woe
And the jury guilty found her of robbing of a homeward bounder
And they sent her off in chains to Botany Bay
Oh Maggie, Maggie May, they have taken you away
To slave upon that cruel Van Diemen's shore
For you robbed so many sailors, and doped so many whalers
You won't ever walk down Lime Street any more
Oh Maggie, Maggie May, they have taken you away
To slave upon that cruel Van Diemen's shore
For you robbed so many sailors, and doped so many whalers
You won't ever walk down Lime Street any more