Status

Cover Song

Written By

Unknown

Recording Sessions

Unknown if ever recorded

Availability of Official Release

N/A

Lyrics

Yonder stands little Maggie
With a dram glass in her hand
Rifle over her shoulder
Six shooter in her hand

How can I ever stand it
Just to see them two blue eyes
Smiling like two diamonds
LIke two diamonds in the sky

Rather be in some lonesome hollow
Where the sun don’t ever shine
Than to see you be some other man’s darling
And to know that you’ll never be mine

March me away to the station
With a suitcase in my hand
Yeah march me away to the station
I’m off to some foreign land

Sometimes I have a nickel
And sometimes I have a dime
Sometimes I have ten dollars
Just to make little Maggie mine

Yonder stands little Maggie
With a dram glass in her hand
She’s a drinkin down her sorrows
Over courtin’ some other man

Note

This song was performed live twice, once in 1995 (below) and again on December 7, 2000 in Japan. In addition, in the lyrics to this song were found handwritten by Elliott and were revealed by JJ Gonson as part of an October 2015 auction for his famous Le Domino guitar that was used to record Roman Candle, along with typed lyric sheets for Collect to NYC and Bastard John, and other handwritten lyric sheets for “Till the end of the Day” (Kinks cover) and “Some Song.” Based on this, while we cannot say conclusively whether Elliott recorded this song, if this was the case it would have been recorded during the Roman Candle/Cop and Speeder era (1993-1994).

Audio

(taken from the live performance noted above)