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Undercover Maggie

from Asking For Trouble by John Voorhees

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This is a fan favorite and probably the funkiest song I’ve recorded yet. It’s a simple cautionary tale of how celebrity, glamour, ambition and just-plain inauthenticity can twist a human soul. I hit similar thematic territory in [listen] The Lady Vanishes, but I’ll talk about that later.

I played this song for a group of Nashville music professionals 4 or 5 years ago as part of a songwriting contest. Not only did they not like it, one of them commented that she would have preferred it if there had been an actual point to the song, instead of just stringing together words that sounded cool. I maintain that this says much more about Nashville than it says about me.

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Maggie woke at 6:05
Brushed the dreams out of her eyes
And gazed in the mirror at a face full of compromise
Took some time to set the stage
Put on the lotion to control the age
Maggie’s going undercover for another day

Step out the door to the summer sun
Hit the pavement for the morning run
Feels good, but it’s not what you’d call fun
Look at the hair, not a hint of gray
You’d better not get in her way
Maggie’s going undercover for another day

Chorus:
And it’s
Fold the hands to hide the ring
Smile doesn’t give away a thing
Maggie’s going undercover for another day
Talk the talk and wink the wink
They’re gonna think that you think the think
Maggie’s going undercover for another day

Could’ve been on the silver screen
Yeah she’s the queen of the could-have-been
Plays both sides and everything in between
Straight as an arrow with a twisted tip
On this tightrope she never slips
Maggie’s going undercover for another day

Full of jokes and looking spry
Looking no one in the eye
Looking like the best kind of girl that money can buy
Look at the hair, not a hint of gray
It’s not a game, but she knows how to play
Maggie’s going undercover for another day

(Chorus)

Back at home she let’s it slide
She can be who she is inside
Sad truth is there’s not much left to hide
But in this world so full of lies
All you can count on is your disguise
Maggie didn’t blow her cover for another day

Chorus:
And it’s
Fold the hands to hide the ring
Smile doesn’t give away a thing
Maggie didn’t blow her cover for another day
Walk the walk and drink the drink
They’re gonna know that you think the think
Maggie didn’t blow her cover
Maggie didn’t blow her cover
Maggie’s going undercover for another day
And another day
And another day

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from Asking For Trouble, released August 1, 2000

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