When You And I Were Young, Maggie
written by GEORGE W. JOHNSON
& JAMES AUSTIN BUTTERFIELD
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WHEN YOU AND I WERE YOUNG, MAGGIE
MUSICAL MEMORIES (COLOR CLASSICS) 1935
MUSICAL MEMORIES (COLOR CLASSICS) 1935
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When You And I Were Young, Maggie is a popular folk song and standard from 1866 composed by James Austin Butterfield. The lyrics of the sentimental song were originally a poem written in by a Canadian school teacher George Washington Johnson in Hamilton, Ontario. The 21 year old wrote the poem for his 18 year old pupil Margaret "Maggie" Clark. The two had fallen in love, got engaged, and then Maggie contracted tuberculosis and fell ill. Johnson wrote and published the poem after she became ill. The poem was published 1864, and the two were married the same year. Maggie's health continued to deteriorate, and she died less than a year later. The song was put to music the following year, in 1865, and song became popular all over the world. When You And I Were Young, Maggie has been recorded countless hundreds of times since 1905. It is considered a standard of Dixieland, a version of the song became an Irish classic, another version became a Scottish classic, and the song earned Johnson an induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame. The song is considered to be one of the most popular songs of the 19th century and early 20th century. The song ais featured in Max Fleischer's 1935 Color Classics short Musical Memories. Johnson never benefited from the song financially, and re-married two more times before his death in 1916.
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1903
RICHARD JOSE |
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1908
WILL OAKLAND |
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1910
FRANK COOMBS |
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1914
MR. E. P. SHERIDAN |
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1917
WALTER VAN BRUNT |
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1922
ISABELLA PATRICOLA & BILLY MURRAY |
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1923
PAUL SPECHT AND HIS ORCHESTRA |
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1923
FIDDLIN' JOHN CARSON |
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1925
JAMES McCORMACK |
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19??
KAPLAN'S MELODISTS |
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19??
JACK TETER |
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19??
IRVING KAUFMAN |
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19??
TEDDY WILSON |
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1937
EDGAR HAYES AND HIS ORCHESTRA |
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1939
FATS WALLER |
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1940
THE FLAT FOOT FOUR |
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1941
WILL BRADLEY & RAY McKINLEY |
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1944
KID SHOTS NEW ORLEANS BAND |
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19??
BING CROSBY & GARY CROSBY |
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19??
EDDY ARNOLD |
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1947
THE FABULOUS DORSEYS |
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1950
JAN PEERCE |
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1951
MARGARET WHITING |
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19??
VIC DICKENSON |
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1954
ROBERT SHAW CHORALE |
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1954
THE FOUR LADS |
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19??
JAN PEERCE |
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1957
CHRIS BARBER'S JAZZ BAND |
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19??
GLEN DALY |
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19??
CHET ATKINS |
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1959
ROBERTA SHERWOOD & ARTHUR GODFREY |
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1960
THE FOUR CLEFS |
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19??
SPEEDY HAWORTH |
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19??
TINY TIM |
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1970
GLEN DALY |
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1972
MITCH MILLER |
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1976
ROBERT WHITE |
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1977
SLIM WHITMAN |
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19??
THE STATLER BROTHERS |
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1983
PAT WOODS |
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2009
JOHN McDERMOTT |
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2009
THE BLACK EAGLE JAZZ BAND |
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20??
STEPHANIE TRICK |
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20??
BLUEGRASS DADDY |
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20??
JENNIFER JEON |
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20??
DONNIE STEWART & RON ANDRICO |
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20??
TOM ROUSH |
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2018
3DIVAS |
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SING ALONG |
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WHEN YOU AND I WERE YOUNG, MAGGIE
I wandered today to the hill, Maggie,
To watch the scene below;
The creek and the creaking old mill, Maggie,
As we used to 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.
A city so silent and lone, Maggie,
Where the young and the gay and the best,
In polished 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 lovely as they, Maggie,
When you and I were young.
They say I am feeble with age, Maggie,
My steps are less spritely than then
My face is a well written page, Maggie,
But time alone was the pen.
They say we are aged and gray, Maggie,
As sprays by the white breakers flung,
But to me you're as fair as you were, Maggie,
When you and I were young
I wandered today to the hill, Maggie,
To watch the scene below;
The creek and the creaking old mill, Maggie,
As we used to 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.
A city so silent and lone, Maggie,
Where the young and the gay and the best,
In polished 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 lovely as they, Maggie,
When you and I were young.
They say I am feeble with age, Maggie,
My steps are less spritely than then
My face is a well written page, Maggie,
But time alone was the pen.
They say we are aged and gray, Maggie,
As sprays by the white breakers flung,
But to me you're as fair as you were, Maggie,
When you and I were young
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