Little Maggie May

DESCRIPTION: "The spring has come, the flowers in bloom, The birds sing out their lay... How I love her none can tell, My little Maggie May." Time has passed, and he is far away, but he still remembers the running brook and hopes that he "may call her mine"
AUTHOR: Words: G.W. Moore / Music: C.W. Blamphin (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1867 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation beauty
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, p. 142, "Maggie May" (1 text) (pp.120-121 in the 1919 edition)
Roud #5383
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(2271), "Maggie May," J. Harkness (Preston), 1840-1866; also Harding B 20(56), "Maggie May," unknown (n.d.); also 2806 b.11(224)=2806 b.11(225)=2806 b.11(226), "Maggie May," T. Pearson (Manchester), 1850-1899
NLScotland, Crawford.EB.3694, "Maggie May," T. Person (Manchester), 1865?; also Crawford.EB.3144, "Maggie May," unknown, n.d.; also Crawford.EB.3145, "Maggie May," unknown, n.d.
NOTES [52 words]: Obviously not to be confused with the sailor-robbed-by-a-whore song "Maggie May." Which may be dirty, but at least it has the virtue of not being dreadful. I presume the authors of this did not know the other song....
The broadsides seem to have had a strong tendency to print this with "Sally In Our Alley." - RBW
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File: Shoe142

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