Maggie Mae - English / Liverpudlian Folk Song
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- "Maggie May" (or "Maggie Mae") (Roud No. 1757) is a traditional Liverpool folk song 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 two 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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My Grandad learned me the words to this when I was about 2 years old. Proper Irish Scouse sea man. Royal Navy in world war 2. Then came home from the war, raised 8 kids with my Nan and ran pubs along Scotland Road and Stanley Road for years. He’d seen it all and was a great fella.
This is my 4 year old favorite song. It's hilarious to hear him walk around the house and sing it when he has NO IDEA what it's about lol
I remember hearing this song for the first time in the movie Titanic .
Good job mate :)
I know this when I was watch "Nowhere Boy" a movie about John Lennon😁 but it's a little bit different 😂
There's a cafe down Lime Street called Maggie Mae.
yea Maggie maes café trips off the tongue doesn't it.. 😉
Thought it was on bold street?
@MXE there's one there too.. I think the one one lime St (or London Road if its same one I'm thinking) is spelt different.. mae and bold St one is may
@@ajkaye5719 ahh ok
Bold street
La primera vez qué escuche esta canción fue en el album "Let It Be" de The Beatles. ❤️
Same
Liverpool the only city in the world that has a Traditional Folk Song about a "lady of horizontal entertainment" as well as having two Cathedrals a naked man at the front of the old Lewis building and a bombed out Church kept that way.
Scousers call the Catholic cathedral, Paddy's wigwam " or the " Mersey funnel " 'cos of it's design.
@@josephforrest9472 Thought I would keep religion out of things. I was wrong about the Church Berlin has kept a Church in the same bombed condition and if my memory serves the Berlin residence call it the "Old Tooth"
So glad a channel like this uploaded this tune. Me grandad used to sing this loads and me and the boys still do when we all get back together, pot of scouse, pint of summer lighting and this arl tune
A favourite with Aussie Bush Bands, although it differs slightly. The chorus is possibly closer to the 1840s original
Oh dirty Maggie May, they have taken her away
To dwell upon that cold Van Diemen's shore.
She's robbed so many sailors, and skinned so many whalers,
She'll never walk down Lime Street any more
Rather than Botany Bay, the song refer to Hobart Bay where The Cascades Female Factory, a former Australian workhouse for female convicts in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, is located in Hobart, Tasmania.
The original is from the 1740's, not 1840's. At that time, Britain hadn't even colonised Australia nor started dropping convicts there. It's likely any references to Maggie Mae being deported to Australia were added later on. At the time, I believe they still sent convicts off to North America.
“Robbing homeward bounders!” I always heard it on Let It Be as “robbing the home what bound ‘er.”
Liverpool is only part of Merseyside, not all of it.
The painting is by Leeds artist John Atkinson Grimshaw.
The daughter of my parents Dutch friends, here in Australia, named her daughter after the Rod Stewart song Maggie May. When my Scouse parents told their friends the Liverpool meaning they weren't impressed.
Her story told by Tom slemen is heart breaking I strongly recommend haunted Liverpool 19. She heard this song while exiled and cried coz she in her long complex life never had
stole.
Don't believe a word of that Tom Slemen
The Pietasters sang about Maggie Mae too. The ole gal gets around.
nice
Does anyone recognise that intro which ends at 1:10 ?
John Ryan’s Polka
might be john lennon in nowhere boy
My daughter's name is Maggie Mae.
Be careful with her
the beatles song?
The beatles used this as inspiration for let it be
This song was made by the Quarrymen (aka the band where the beatles came from)
It comes from the 1740s lol
@@Dryhten1801 Ik i really like the beatles
@@Dryhten1801 I was in Malaya February 1957. Scousers in our camp were singing Maggie Mae before the Beatles were born.
@@ced2310 it was the first song played by the quarrymen. But it was made by the Beatles. John Lennon knew the song from his mother
I thought this was a Beatles original ngl
Is there a name for that painting in the back ground?
depends which painting you mean but another comment says that one of the paintings is by a John Atkinson Grimshaw
@@Gaiaphage thank you.
Well blot's is maggie's liver! Up to tran,s and plant!!IN TO ADX8💔? I seem to have a pool in me LIVER! OLD CHAP'S
The judge guilty her found her, of robbin’ a homeward bounder?
A homeward bounder is a sailor who has paid off his ship after a long voyage with all his pay and is homeward bound. Robbing a homeward bounder of his accumulated pay is the worst crime in the seaman's book.
The seaman's version is somewhat different, with a chorus ending 'you poxy rotten scouser maggie may'. The rest is unprintable.
But besides Manchester it's the best!❤
wow so proud to be a scouser
why
Why indeed.
Scouse not English.
Fenians out of Liverpool
Hahaha, we left all that sectarian shit behind years ago. Even most of the Orangemen have Catholic in-laws and voted for Corbyn.@@Dryhten1801
No catholics in my family and defo didn't vote for that dickhead