Maggie in the Woods

The melody first appears in print as a march, "Nancy Wants Her Own Share," in Darley and McCall's Feis Ceoil Collection of Irish Airs (1914). Flute player Tom Morrison made the first recording under the Maggie title in 1925, and Jerry O'Brien printed it as a polka in his 1949 accordion tutor. Margaret Barry and Michael Gorman spread it in the 1950s, and the Chieftains in the 1970s.

Several songs use the tune, among them the Irish "An bhFaca Tú Mo Shéamaisín?" and the comic "Saint Patrick Was a Gentleman." In Newfoundland it is played as "Mussels in the Corner."