KillerMiller - Acoustic Guitar & Vocals - Recorded live in Oslo, Norway - 24.10.2022
Studio Edits + Single Track Acoustic Cover Songs
KillerMiller
Vocalist / Acoustic & Electric Guitar/ Percussion / Sound Effects
Story behind the song
"Maggie Mae" is a traditional 19th century Liverpool folk song about a local prostitute who robbed "homeward bounders" which is scouse for sailors coming home from a round trip. Friggin' was a sailors/ slave punishment. It was a shaved ginger root up the anus to inflict a constant burning sensation.
Lyrics
Now gather round me sailor boys, and listen to me plea
And when you hear my tale you'll pity me
As I was a friggin' fool in the port of Liverpool
The first time I came home from the sea
I was paid off at the home, from the voyage to Sierra Leone
Two pounds ten and sixpence was me pay
With a pocket full o' tin I was very soon taken in
By a girl with the name of Maggie Mae
Oh, Maggie Mae, they've taken her away
And she'll never walk down Lime Street any more
She robbed so many sailors and captains of the whalers
That dirty, no-good, robbin' Maggie Mae
'Ow well did I remember when I first saw Maggie Mae
She was cruisin' up and down old Canning Place
She hid a figure so divine, like a frigate of the line
And me being a sailor, I gave chase
The morning I awoke and I was flat and stoney broke
No jacket, trousers, waistcoat could I find
When I asked her where they were, she said, "Oh my dear sir,
They're down at Kelly's locker, number nine"
Old, Maggie Mae, Old. Maggie Mae, they've taken her away
And she'll never walk down Lime Street any more
She robbed so many sailors and captains of the whalers
That dirty, no-good, robbin' Maggie Mae
