Maggie May
Judy Garland

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

I was paid off at the Home, from a voyage to Sierra Leone
Two pounds ten and sixpence was my pay
When I drew the tin I grinned, but I very soon got skinned
By a girl by the name of Maggie May

Oh, Maggie, Maggie May, they've taken you away
They've sent you to Van Diemen's cruel shore
For you robbed so many a sailor, and skinned so many a whaler
And you'll never shine in Paradise Street no more

I shan't forget the day when I first met Maggie May
She was cruising up and down on Canning Place
With a figure so divine, like a frigate of the line
So, being a sailor, I gave chase

Oh, Maggie, Maggie May, they've taken you away
They've sent you to Van Diemen's cruel shore
For you robbed so many a sailor, and skinned so many a whaler
And you'll never shine in Paradise Street no more

Next day I woke in bed, with a sore and aching head
No shoes, or shirt, or trousers could I find
I asked her where they were, and she answered, My dear sir,
They're down in Kelly's knock-shop, number nine

Oh, Maggie, Maggie May, they've taken you away
They've sent you to Van Diemen's cruel shore
For you robbed so many a sailor, and skinned so many a whaler
And you'll never shine in Paradise Street no more

Oh, you thieving Maggie May, you robbed me of my pay
When I slept with you last night ashore
And the judge he guilty found her of robbing a homeward-bounder
And she'll never roam down Paradise Street no more

Oh, Maggie, Maggie May, they've taken you away
They've sent you to Van Diemen's cruel shore
For you robbed so many a sailor, and skinned so many a whaler
And you'll never shine in Paradise Street no more


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  (outtake) (used in the film Andy Hardy Meets Debut...   A Foggy Day (A Damsel in Distress)   A Foggy Day (In London Town)   A Foggy Day [From A Damsel in Distress]   A Gotta Have Me Go With You   A Journey to a Star   A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow (Encore) [Live]   A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow [From Little Nellie ...   A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow [Live]   All I Do Is Dream of You   All I Do Is Dream of You [From Andy Hardy Meets De...   Alone [From Andy Hardy Meets Debutante]   Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home   Babes in Arms   Be a Clown [From The Pirate]   Blues in the Night [Alternate Take][#]   Blues in the Night [From Blues in the Night]   Boys and Girls Like You and Me [From Meet Me in St...   Boys and Girls Like You and Me [Outtake]   But Not For Me   But Not for Me [From Girl Crazy]   By Myself [From I Could Go on Singing]   Changing My Tune   Chicago [*]   Chin Up! Cheerio! Carry On! [From Babes on Broadwa...   Come Rain or Come Shine [Video Only]   Cottage for Sale   Could You Use Me?   Could You Use Me? [From Girl Crazy]   Cry Baby Cry   Cry, Baby, Cry   Danny Boy   Danny Boy [From Little Nellie Kelly]   Day In - Day Out   Day In - Day Out [#]   Day In, Day Out   Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead   Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead   Dirty Hands Dirty Face   Dirty Hands, Dirty Face   Dirty Hands! Dirty Face!   Dirty Hands! Dirty Face!   Do I Love You?   Do It Again [#]   Do It Again!, song (interpolated into The French D...   Drummer Boy [From Strike Up the Band]   Easy Come, Easy Go [#]   Embraceable You   Embraceable You (Reprise) [From Girl Crazy]   Embraceable You [Alternate Take][#]   Embraceable You [From Girl Crazy]   Embraceable You, song (from Girl Crazy, musical)   Everbody Sing   Everybody Sing [Broadway Melody of 1938]   Everybody Sing [From Broadway Melody of 1938]   Falling in Love With Love   Falling in Love With Love [#]   Fascinating Rhythm   Fascinating Rhythm [From the Film: Girl Crazy]   Finale (Pt. 4)/Our Love Affair [From Strike Up the...   For Me & My Gal   For Me and My Gal [From for Me & My Gal]   For Me And My Gal [From for Me and My Gal]   For Me and My Gal [From Me and My Gal]   For Me and My Gal [Original Finale/Outtake][Outtak...   For Me and My Gale   For You, For Me, For Evermore   For You, for Me, for Evermore [*]   Friendship [From Dubarry Was A Lady]   Friendship [From the Musical Production: Du Barry ...   Get Happy [From Summer Stock]   Get Happy [Live]   Get Happy/Happy Days Are Here Again/Hooray for Lov...   Get Me To the Church on Time   Get Me to the Church on Time [*]   Good Morning (used in the film Babes in Arms)   Good Morning [#]   Good Morning [From Babes in Arms]   Good Morning [Supplemental Material][Outtake]   Gotta Be This or That   Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (for the fi...   Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas [Alternate ...   Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas [Alternate ...   Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas [Alternate ...   Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas [From Meet ...   Have Yourself a Mery Christmas   Hey, Look Me Over   Hey, Look Me Over!   Hey, Look Me Over! [*]   Hoe Down [From Babes on Broadway]   How About You   How About You? [From Babes on Broadway]   How About You? [From the Film: Babes on Broadway]   How Long Has This Been Going On?   I Believe in You   I Concentrate on You   I Could Go on Singing (Till the Cows Come Home)   I Cried for You [Extended Version w/]   I Cried for You [Extended Version]   I Feel a Song Coming On   I Got Rhythm [Alternate Take]   I Got Rhythm [Alternate Take][#]   I Got Rhythm [From Girl Crazy]   I Got Rhythm, song (from Girl Crazy, 1930)   I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues   I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues, song   I Left My Heart in San Francisco [Medley]   I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City [Salt Lake City ...   I May Be Wrong   I Never Knew   I Wish I Were in Love Again [Alternate Take]   I Wish I Were in Love Again [Alternate Take][#]   I Wish I Were in Love Again [From Babes in Arms]   I Wish I Were in Love Again [From Words & Music]   I Wish I Were in Love Again [From Words and Music]   If I Had You [Alternate Take]   If I Only Had a Brain   If I Only Had a Brain [*]   If I Only Had a Brain [From The Wizard of Oz]   If I Were King of the Forest   If I Were King of the Forest [Alternate Vocal Tag]   If I Were King of the Forest [Extended Version]   If I Were King of the Forest [Partial Take][Altern...   In Between [Love Finds Andy Hardy]   In the Valley (Where the Evening Sun Goes Down) [V...   In-Between   In-Between [From Listen Darling]   It Came Upon a Midnight Clear   It Never Rains But What It Pours   It Never Rains, But It Pours   It Never Rains, But What It Pours   It Never Rains, But What It Pours [From Listen Dar...   Just Imagine   Just in Time [#]   Last Night When We Were Young   Last Night When We Were Young [Outtake]   Life upon the Wicked Stage   Little Drops of Rain [Gay Puree]   Little Drops of Rain [Gay Purree]   Lonesome Road   Long Ago (And Far Away)   Love (Encore) [Live]   Love [Live]   Love of My Life [From The Pirate]   Mack the Black [From The Pirate]   Maggie Maggie May   Make Someone Happy   Me and My Shadow   Mean to Me   Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis   Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis [From Meet Me in St. L...   Memories of You   Merry Christmas [In the Good Old Summertime]   Merry Christmas [The Good Old Summertime]   Minnie from Trinidad   Minnie from Trinidad [From Ziegfeld Girl]   Moon River   Munchkinland   My Romance   On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe   On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe [Excerpt]   On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe [From The...   On the Atchison, Topeka and the Sante Fe   On the Atchison, Topeka, And the Santa Fe   On the Bumpy Road to Love [From Listen Darling]   Opening Theme [Instrumental]   Our Love Affair [From Strike Up the Band]   Our Love Affair [Supplemental Material]   Our Love Affair, Pt. 2 [From Strike Up the Band]   Our Love Affair, Pt. 3 [From Strike Up the Band]   Our Love Affair, Pt. 4 [From Strike Up the Band]   Our Love Affair, Pt. 5 [From Strike Up the Band]   Over the Rainbow (Encore) [Live]   Over the Rainbow (Reprise) [Alternate Version][Out...   Over the Rainbow [*]   Over the Rainbow [Alternate Take]   Over the Rainbow [From the Film The Wizard of Oz]   Over the Rainbow [From the Film: the Wizard of Oz]   Over the Rainbow [From The Wizard of Oz]   Over the Rainbow [Live]   Over the Rainbow [Partial Take][Excerpt]   Paris Is a Lonely Town [From Gay Purr-ee]   Poor Little Rich Girl   Poor Little Rich Girl [From the Musical Production...   Pretty Baby   Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow   Put Your Arms Around Me Honey   Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey   Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey [From in the Good O...   Rock a Bye Your Baby   Rock a Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody [Live]   Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody [Live]   Rockabye Your Baby   San Francisco (Reprise)   Shenandoah   Skip to My Lou [From Meet Me in St. Louis]   Smile [Modern Times]   Something Cool [Outtake]   Steam Heat   Strike up the Band   Strike up the Band [From Strike Up the Band]   Stumbling [outtake]   Swanee [From A Star Is Born]   Swanee [Video Only]   Swing Mr. Charlie   Swing, Mister Charlie   Swing, Mr. Mendelssohn [Extended Version]   Taking a Chance on Love/Program Close   Ten Pins in the Sky [From Listen Darling]   Texas Tornado   Thanks for the Memory   That Old Feeling   The Battle Hymn of the Republic   The Boy Next Door [From Meet Me in St. Louis]   The Christmas Song   The Jitterbug [Outtake]   The Last Time I Saw Paris   The Man That Got Away [From A Star Is Born]   The Merry Old Land of Oz   The Merry Old Land of Oz   The Merry Old Land of Oz [*]   The Nearness of You   The Old Devil Moon   The On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe [From...   The Over The Rainbow [From The Wizard of Oz]   The Trolley Song (for the film Meet Me in St. Loui...   The Trolley Song [From Meet Me in St. Louis]   The Trolley Song [From Meet Me St. Louis]   The Trolley Song [From the Film: Meet Me in St. Lo...   There Is No Breeze (To Cool the Flame of Love)   This Heart of Mine   This Heart of Mine [Alternate Take]   This Heart of Mine [Alternate Take][#]   Till We Meet Again   Together (Wherever We Go)   Together (Wherever We Go) [Live]   Together (Wherever We Go) [Video Only]   Too Marvelous for Words   Under the Bamboo Tree [From Meet Me in St. Louis]   version used in the film Little Nellie Kelly   version used in the film Summer [From Summer Stoc...   Wearing of the Green   What Now, My Love?   What'll I Do?   When Johnny Comes Marching Home [Extended Version]   When You Were a Tulip   When You Wish upon a Star   When You Wore a Tulip   When You Wore a Tulip (And I Wore a Big Red Rose)   When Your Lover Has Gone   When Your Lover Has Gone [Video Only]   When Your Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You...   Where Do We Go from Here?   Where or When (Reprise), [From Babes in Arms]   Where or When [From Babes in Arms]   Who Cares   Who Cares (As Long as You Care for Me)   Who Cares?   Who Cares? (So Long as You Care for Me)   Who Cares? [As Long as You Care for Me]   Who? [Till the Clouds Roll By]   Yah-Ta-Ta, Yah-Ta-Ta (Talk, Talk, Talk)   Yah-Ta-Ta, Yah-Ta-Ta (Talk, Talk, Talk) [Alternate...   You Belong to Me   You Can Do No Wrong   You Do Something to Me (Reprise)   You Stepped Out of a Dream   You, Wonderful You   Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart [From Listen Da...   Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart [From Listen, D...   Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart [From the Film;...

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