Maggie May - Rod Stewart (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Описание: Maggie May (Rod Stewart, 1971). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2026-01-25. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

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"Maggie May," written by Martin Quittenton & Rod Stewart, was Stewart's first entry onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart and rising to the no. 1 position on the chart in 1971 (Whitburn, 2013) and no. 1 on the UK chart (Kutner & Leigh, 2005). In his 2012 Autobiography, Stewart described where the song came from. “At 16, I went to the Beaulieu Jazz Festival in the New Forest. I’d snuck in with some mates via an overflow sewage pipe. And there on a secluded patch of grass, I lost my not-remotely-prized virginity with an older (and larger) woman who’d come on to me very strongly in the beer tent. How much older, I can’t tell you, but old enough to be highly disappointed by the brevity of the experience” (Stewart, 2012). The woman's name was not Maggie May, he borrowed the title from an old British folk song about a prostitute on Lime Street in Liverpool, England (T. Benitez-Eves, americansongwriter, Jan. 19, 2024). Funny, Stewart stated: "It didn’t have a chorus. It just had three rambling verses. It didn’t really have a hook. How could you hope to have a hit single with a song that was all verse and no chorus and no hook?” (G. Howie, faroutmagazine, Jan. 13, 2026).

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Lyrics:

Wake up Maggie I think I got something to say to you
It's late September and I really should be back at school
I know I keep you amused but I feel I'm being used
Oh Maggie I couldn't have tried any more
You lured me away from home just to save you from being alone
You stole my heart and that's what really hurts

The morning sun when it's in your face really shows your age
But that don't worry me none in my eyes you're everything
I laughed at all of your jokes, my love you didn't need to coax
Oh, Maggie I couldn't have tried any more
You lured me away from home, just to save you from being alone
You stole my soul and that's a pain I can do without

All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand
But you turned into a lover and
Mother what a lover, you wore me out
All you did was wreck my bed
And in the morning kick me in the head
Oh Maggie I couldn't have tried anymore
You lured me away from home 'cause you didn't want to be alone
You stole my heart I couldn't leave you if I tried

I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school
Or steal my daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool
Or find myself a rock and roll band that needs a helpin' hand
Oh Maggie I wish I'd never seen your face
You made a first class fool out of me
But I'm as blind as a fool can be
You stole my heart but I love you anyway

Maggie I wish I'd never seen your face
I'll get on back home one of these, these days