Maggie Song

The song went to 1 in the uk singles chart in october 1971 and at the same time topped the.

Maggie song. Provided to youtube by universal music group maggie may rod stewart every picture tells a story 1971 umg recordings inc. Maggie may was rod stewart s first big hit as a solo performer. Maggie may or maggie mae roud 1757 is a traditional liverpool folk song about a prostitute who robbed a homeward bounder. Rod borrowed the title from maggie mae a liverpool folk song about a lime street prostitute which the beatles included on their let it be album.

Classic track from top irish folk band the fureys. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. They say we have outlived our time maggie as dated as the songs that we ve sung but to me you re as fair as you were maggie when you and i were young. They say that i m feeble with age maggie my step are much slower than then my face is a well written page maggie and time all alone was the pen.

The name maggie may does not occur in the song. Stewart liked the play on words the title created sometimes introducing the song by saying this is maggie may sometimes she did sometimes she didn t. The song was used by seán o casey in his 1926 play the plough and the stars but the name maggie was changed to nora because the character jack clitheroe was singing it to his wife nora. Johnny mcevoy recorded it as nora in 1968 and had a number one hit in ireland.

A sailor coming home from a round trip. A very nice clip from this popular couple in concert.