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When You And I Were Young Maggie

Words by George W. Johnson, Music by James Austin Butterfield - 1866

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G	C	G	D7
G	C	G          D7	G          G7
C	G	D          A7	D          D7
G          G7	C        Gdim	G          D7	G          G7
Refrain:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
C	G	D          A7	D7
G          G7	C        Gdim	G          D7	G      (Repeat)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

Click here for an arrangement of "Maggie Blues"

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I wan -der'd to -day to the hill, Mag -gie, To watch the scene be -low,

The creek and the creak -ing old mill Mag -gie, As we used to, long a -go.

The green grove is gone from the hill, Mag -gie, where first the dai -sies -sprung;

The creak -ing old mill is still, Mag -gie, since you and I were young.

 

Refrain:

And now we are a -ged and gray, Mag -gie the tri -als of life near -ly done;

Let us sing of the days that are gone, Mag -gie, When you and I were young.

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Sound Clip:

Listen to Jim play "When You And I Were Young Maggie" on the 5-string banjo (262k mp3)

 

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Trivia:

The words to "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" come from a poem written in Hamilton, Ontario,

Canada by George W. Johnson, a schoolteacher who taught languages and mathematics.

The poem was written ca 1864 and was a pledge of his undying love to his wife Maggie Clarke, who died in 1865.
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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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