Song For Maggie

How I remember the 12th November
The day she went sailing away from me
She woke one morning with foreign shores calling
Sailed out across the western sea

And the rains came down
And the wind she howled
The ship left the quayside, Maggie left my side
and I never saw her again

I could say I'm sorry but you know I lied
I could say I loved you but I never tried

Oh Maggie, Oh Maggie
it was a lonely day
Oh Maggie, Oh Maggie
I wish you'd have stayed

The snow came a falling, the hours were calling
With never a letter, a line or a word
And all that she'd seen, all the places she'd been to
Or where she was heading well I never knew

And then home with the driving snow
There came a letter from Mexico
Saying "I don't know when I'll be coming home again
When there's so touch here now to hold me

I could say I'm sorry but you know I lied
could say I loved you but I never tried

Your shoes & your clothes still lie on the floor
Your books and you poems still hide in my drawer
All the pictures you painted still hang on my wall
Oh Maggie, Oh Maggie they've never meant more

And I still remember like it was, yesterday
the girl that I lost for words I couldn't say

Oh Maggie, Oh Maggie
it was a lonely day
Oh Maggie, Oh Maggie
I wish you'd have stayed




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