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

There's a cafe down Lime Street called Maggie Mae.

@ajkaye5719

Жыл бұрын

yea Maggie maes café trips off the tongue doesn't it.. 😉

@HappySerafim

Жыл бұрын

Thought it was on bold street?

@ajkaye5719

Жыл бұрын

@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

@HappySerafim

Жыл бұрын

@@ajkaye5719 ahh ok

@connorspeakman7513

Жыл бұрын

Bold street

I remember hearing this song for the first time in the movie Titanic . Good job mate :)

@wildanibnuazis8693

Жыл бұрын

I know this when I was watch "Nowhere Boy" a movie about John Lennon😁 but it's a little bit different 😂

La primera vez qué escuche esta canción fue en el album "Let It Be" de The Beatles. ❤️

@christopherpeter978

8 ай бұрын

Same

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 dirty Maggie may!

Liverpool is only part of Merseyside, not all of it.

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.

“Robbing homeward bounders!” I always heard it on Let It Be as “robbing the home what bound ‘er.”

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.

@Azog150

9 ай бұрын

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.

The painting is by Leeds artist John Atkinson Grimshaw.

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.

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.

@josephforrest9472

3 ай бұрын

Scousers call the Catholic cathedral, Paddy's wigwam " or the " Mersey funnel " 'cos of it's design.

@jas20per

3 ай бұрын

@@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"

The Pietasters sang about Maggie Mae too. The ole gal gets around.

nice

My daughter's name is Maggie Mae.

@foreshadowing7052

3 ай бұрын

Be careful with her

Does anyone recognise that intro which ends at 1:10 ?

@friedice6846

Жыл бұрын

John Ryan’s Polka

@capschetti

Жыл бұрын

might be john lennon in nowhere boy

I thought this was a Beatles original ngl

the beatles song?

@demoxcro786

Жыл бұрын

The beatles used this as inspiration for let it be

Is there a name for that painting in the back ground?

@Gaiaphage

Ай бұрын

depends which painting you mean but another comment says that one of the paintings is by a John Atkinson Grimshaw

@davy1458

Ай бұрын

@@Gaiaphage thank you.

This song was made by the Quarrymen (aka the band where the beatles came from)

@Dryhten1801

8 ай бұрын

It comes from the 1740s lol

@ced2310

8 ай бұрын

@@Dryhten1801 Ik i really like the beatles

@josephforrest9472

3 ай бұрын

@@Dryhten1801 I was in Malaya February 1957. Scousers in our camp were singing Maggie Mae before the Beatles were born.

wow so proud to be a scouser

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

But besides Manchester it's the best!❤

The judge guilty her found her, of robbin’ a homeward bounder?

@tomarmstrong5244

Жыл бұрын

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.

why

@Wotsitorlabart

Жыл бұрын

Why indeed.

Scouse not English.

@Dryhten1801

8 ай бұрын

Fenians out of Liverpool

@gyorkshire257

8 ай бұрын

Hahaha, we left all that sectarian shit behind years ago. Even most of the Orangemen have Catholic in-laws and voted for Corbyn.@@Dryhten1801

@roysta45

8 ай бұрын

No catholics in my family and defo didn't vote for that dickhead