Another Rod Stewart song from the same era as "Maggie May" is "Mandolin Wind," and it too has a flexible, wandering structure, with different movements -- part of the song is one way, and parts of it are other ways, and each part leads naturally into the next.
The melodies are "answered" so satisfyingly in each section, I think the first time a person hears this song, they feel like they have somehow heard it before.
Like when the mind can occasionally turn a present-time observation into a memory immediately, resulting in what we call deja vu.
Rod Stewart is the deja vu songwriter, right?
When you go on You Tube to play "Mandolin Wind," a video I can recommend as having good sound was uploaded by "Radio King."
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