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Maggie May [Trad. arr. Gavin Atkin]

from The Running Tide by Gavin Atkin

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Maggie May is one of the great classic warning songs explaining in clear detail about the way the girls ashore can exploit newly paid-off sailors - though in this case the woman involved gets transported to Botany Bay - which would date the song to the transportation era, which ran from 1788 to 1868, and sea song historian and shantyman Stan Hugill found a reference to it dating back to the 1830s. What's amazing, perhaps, is that people still sing it today...

The melodeon is an old Hohner Erica tuned in GC.

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from The Running Tide, released April 23, 2015
Trad. arr. Gavin Atkin

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Gavin Atkin England, UK

Gavin Atkin lives, sings and plays in Kent, where he also sails dinghies and a small yacht, publishes a boating weblog, and runs events and workshops focusing on traditional and old fashioned music.

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