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"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 ...
The song was released as the B-side of the single "Reason to Believe", but soon radio stations began playing the B-side and "Maggie May" became the more popular side. The song was Stewart's first substantial hit as a solo performer and launched his solo career. It remains one of his best-known songs. A 1971 performance of the song on Top of the ...
The song is also considered as a standard of dixieland. [8] [9] 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. [10] Johnny McEvoy recorded it as "Nora" in 1968 and had a number one hit in Ireland.
The relationship to the English folk song Maggie May, which has the same music and similar lyrics, is unclear. [3] The tune was subsequently used by Geordie music hall singer Joe Wilson to set his song Keep yor feet still Geordie hinny and by trade union activist and Industrial Workers of the World member Ralph Chaplin, to set The Commonwealth ...
Maggie May is a musical with a book by Alun Owen and music and lyrics by Lionel Bart.Based on "Maggie May", a traditional ballad about a Liverpool prostitute, it deals with trade union ethics and disputes among Irish-Catholic dockers in Liverpool, centring on the life of streetwalker Margaret Mary Duffy and her sweetheart, a freewheeling sailor.
"You Wear It Well" is a song written by Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton, performed by Stewart. It uses an arrangement markedly similar to "Maggie May", one of Stewart's hits from the previous year. [1] Stewart recorded "You Wear It Well" for the 1972 album Never a Dull Moment, and released it as a single on 12 August.
Geordey, hinny" (Roud 6862 [1]) is a famous Geordie comic song written in the 19th century by Joe Wilson, in a style deriving from music hall. [2] Though the words were by Wilson, it is to be sung to the existing tune of "Nelly Gray" (also used for the Liverpool song "Maggie May")
[16] [17] In 2003, Ray Jackson claimed to be the mandolin player on the album, at least for the song "Maggie May." [16] Jackson is the mandolin player from English folk-rock band Lindisfarne. Mason attributes the mandolin playing to Martin Quittenton. [9] The liner notes to Every Picture Tells a Story list Quittenton only as the acoustic guitar ...