"#MaggieMay" (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. #JohnManifold, in his Penguin Australian Song Book, described it as "A #focsle 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.
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