Maggie  - a song to test your vocal cords

1. I wander'd today to the hill, Maggie..........................................AUDIO
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   When You and I Were Young, Maggie
   is a famous folk song , popular song and standard .
   Its lyrics were written as a poem by the
   Canadian school teacher George Washington
   Johnson. Margaret "Maggie" Clark was his
   pupil. They fell in love and during a period
   of illness, George walked to a nearby hill,
   overlooking a mill, and composed the poem.
   The general tone is perhaps one of melancholy
   and consolation over lost youth rather than
   mere sentimentality or a fear of ageing.
   It was published in 1864 in a collection of his
   poems entitled Maple Leaves . They were
   married in 1864 but Maggie's health
   deteriorated and she died on May 12, 1865.
   James Butterfield set the poem to music and it
   became popular all over the world.
   George Washington Johnson died in 1917
   The creek and the creaking old mill, Maggie
   As he used to long, long ago'
   The green grove is gone from the hill, Maggie
   Where first the daisies sprung
   The creaking old mill is still, Maggie
   Since you and I were young.
   
   And now we are aged and grey, Maggie
   And the trials of life nearly done
   Let us sing of the days that are gone, Maggie
   When you and I were young
   .
2. A city so silent and lone, Maggie
   Where the young and the gay and the best
   In Plolish'd white mansions of stone, Maggie
   Have each found a place of rest
   Is built where the birds used to play, Maggie
   And join in the songs that were sung
   For we sang as gay as they, Maggie
   When you and I were young
   Chorus
   .
3. They say that I'm feeble with age, Maggie
   My steps are less sprightly than then
   My face is a well written page, Maggie
   But time alone has the pen,
   Thry say we are aged and grey, Maggie
   As sprays by the white breaker flung
   But to me you're as fair as you were, Maggie
   When you and I were young.
   Chorus

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