When You and I Were Young, Maggie

They fell in love and during a period of illness, George walked to the edge of the Niagara escarpment, overlooking what is now downtown Hamilton, and composed the poem.

[6] The song was first recorded by Corinne Morgan and Frank C. Stanley in 1905, and has been recorded since by many famous artists including opera tenors John McCormack in 1920 and Jan Peerce, early country singers Fiddlin' John Carson and Riley Puckett, country singer Slim Whitman, bluegrass musicians Stanley Brothers, Reno and Smiley, Mac Wiseman, David Grisman and James Alan Shelton, crooners Perry Como and Gene Autry and popular singers such as Will Oakland, Henry Burr, Harry MacDonough and Frank Dunn.

[13] It was also recorded by De Dannan on the album Star-Spangled Molly, by Josef Locke on Let there be Peace, and by James Galway and The Chieftains on In Ireland.

In addition to Henry Burr and Harry MacDonough, other Canadian performers such as Hank Snow, The Climax Jazz Band and Murray McLaughlin have also recorded it.

American psychedelic rock band Magic Fern from Seattle (who wrote and performed together in the mid to late 1960s) recorded a version of this song entitled "Maggie" which is on the soundtrack for Adam Sandler's film Strange Wilderness.

[14] Irish band The Fureys & Davey Arthur also released "Maggie" as the eleventh track on their album Golden Days in 1984.