Lyrics to
Maggie M’Gill

This version of Maggie M’Gill was released by The Doors in 1970.

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Miss Maggie M’Gill, she lived on a hill
Her daddy got drunk and left her the will
So she went down, down to Tangie Town
People down there really like to get it on

Now if you’re sad and you’re feeling blue
Go out and buy a brand new pair of shoes
And you go down, down to Tangie Town
‘Cause people down there really like to get it on
Get it on

Illegitimate son of a Rock n’ Roll star
Illegitimate son of a Rock n’ Roll star
Mom met dad in the back of a Rock n’ Roll car

Well, I’m an old blues man and I think that you understand
I’ve been singing the blues ever since the world began

Maggie, Maggie, Maggie M’Gill
Roll on, roll on, Maggie M’Gill

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Maggie M’Gill, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by The Doors. Some of the lyrics to Maggie M’Gill have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Doors and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Maggie M’Gill if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Maggie M’Gill" means the words set to the music of Maggie M’Gill, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Doors. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Maggie M’Gill and the lyrics to Maggie M’Gill are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Doors who came here looking just for the lyrics to Maggie M’Gill, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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