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Maggie May (WORD)
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To play along in the same key as video in GCEA tuning, put your capo on the 2nd fret!
"Maggie May" expresses the ambivalence and contradictory emotions of a boy involved in a relationship with an older woman and was written from Stewart's own experience. In the January 2007 issue of Q magazine, Stewart recalled: "Maggie May was more or less a true story, about the first woman I had sex with, at the 1961 Beaulieu Jazz Festival." In October 1971, the song went to number one on the UK Singles Chart (for five weeks), and simultaneously topped the charts in Australia (four weeks), Canada (one week), and the United States (six weeks). In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the song number 130 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.