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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: J.W. Myers
Author: traditional
Label: Zonophone
Year: 1905
As Good-bye Maggie May.
Covers:
A.L. Lloyd [on lp English Drinking Songs]
Vipers Skiffle Group [from Liverpool; produced by George Martin! Banned by the BBC]
Beatles [as Maggie Mae on Let It Be; off key, badly played and with the lyrics wrong]
Spinners [album title track; Liverpool band]
John Lennon [home recording in the Dakota building]
John and even Paul and George were at one point in skiffle group The Quarrymen, Ringo played it with his first band The Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group and they all knew it from The Vipers. This ode to a local whore was on anyone's set-list on Mersey side. This traditional sea shantee (the customer Maggie robs in the song is a seaman) relates with American song Darling Nelly Gray, written in 1856 and recorded since 1902 (American Quartet, Lambert & Haydn Quartet).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)