I NEVER SEE MAGGIE ALONE Music: Everett Lynton Words: Harry Tilsley
Recorded by: Slim Whitman; Kenny Roberts; Tommy Clayton; Nancy Lee; Irving Aaronson (1927); Art Mooney
Maggie dear, just won't go out alone, Seems that she must have a chaperone, When we go out no matter where we're bound There's always somebody around.
Choruses: She brings her father, her mother, her sister and her brother, Oh! I never see Maggie alone. She brings her uncles and cousins, she's got ‘em by the dozens, I never see Maggie alone. And if I phone her, say to her "Sweet, Where shall we meet, supposin' that we eat," She brings her father, her mother, her sister and her brother, Oh! I never see Maggie alone.
She brings her father, her mother, her sister and her brother, Oh! I never see Maggie alone. One night when we were out walking and she got tired of talking, She invited me up to her home. I turned the lights down, they were too bright, Oh! What a sight when I turned on the light, There was her father, her mother, her sister, and her brother Oh! I never see Maggie alone.
I bought a roadster, two-seated, I even had it heated, So that I could see Maggie alone, While we were riding, and kissing, the engine started missing, And we were a long way from home. I got right out and then fast as I could, Found what was wrong, for when I raised the hood, There was her father, her mother, her sister and her brother, Oh! I never see Maggie alone.
One day she said she was wishing that I could take her fishing, So I knew I'd see Maggie alone. In the canoe there we two, there went gliding o'er the water, Far from the noise of her home. I threw the line in, thought I'd catch a trout. I'd got a bite and pulled the line right out, There was her father, her mother, her sister and her brother, Oh! I never see Maggie alone.