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(When You And I Were Young)

Maggie Blues

Words and Music by Jack Frost and Jimmy McHugh - 1922

Verse:
G	A7         D7	G	-              D7
G	A7         D7	G	G7
C           Am	E7	Am        E7	Am
A7	-	D7	G7
Am        E7	Am        E7	Am        E7	Am
A7	-	D7	-
Chorus:
G	G7	C	C#dim
G	-           Ddim	D7	-
G	G7	C	C#dim
G	D7	G	G7
C	-	G	-
D7	A7	D7	-
G	G7	C	C#dim
G	D7	G	-  (D7 to chorus)

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

 

Note: This song is two melodies played together at the same time during the chorus.

 "Maggie Blues" is the lead melody, "When You And I Were Young Maggie" is the counter melody.

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Maggie Blues - Verse:

 

I've been re - quest - ed to sing an old time song,

Some - thing our grand dad - dies used to sing.

But I'm a - fraid I would make that old dit - ty sound all wrong,

'Cause I'd fill it with blues and ev - 'ry thing.

But l've a lit - tle plan, And I'll do the best I can,

To sing an old song so we all can un - der stand:

 

Maggie Blues - Chorus:

 

You simp - ly take a fav - or - ite, Then you fla - vor it, with just a note or two of blue har - mo -ny,
Tell the orch -es - tra to play sta - ca - to, and then you jazz a lit-tle ob - li - got - to.
Now that Mag -gie tune is a rag-gie tune pay no at-ten-tion to the mu- sic that they play,

But just rock your blues a - way, on the spot start to sway, Get - tin hot now,

Hear that bro - ken time, If just spoke in time, all a- round I see Harm - o -ny, charm - in' me,

Ev - 'ry lov - in' note, Is a lov - in' boat, Just full of mus -ic that you can't re - fuse.

Now you know the way, tell the band to play, and when you list-en just chris -ten it and say

I've got those you and I were young Mag - gie blues.

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When You And I Were Young Maggie - Chorus:

 

I wan - dered 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, long a - go

The green grove is gone from the hill, Mag - gie,

Where once the dai - sies sprung.

But I love you the same as of old, Mag - gie,

When you and I were young.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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