Beeswing Chords by Richard Thompson

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[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ I was 19 [F] when I came to town, they called it [Bb] the summer [F] of love
They were [Bb] burning, babies [F]
burning, flags, the hawks against [Bb] the _ doves
I _ took a job in [F] the steamy, down on Caldron Street
And [Bb] I fell in [F] love with a laundry girl who was [C] working [Bb] next to me
_ Oh she [Dm] was a rare thing, _ [Bb] fine as [F] a bee's wing
_ [Dm] So [C] fine a breath [Bb] of wind might [C] blow [Bb] her away _ _
She was [Dm] a lost _ child, well she [F] was running wild
She [Dm] said as long as [C] there's [Bb] no price [C] on love [Bb] I'll stay _
[F] _ _ [Gm] And you wouldn't [F] want [Bb] me [C] any [Bb] other _ way
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Brown hair, [F] zigzag around her face, with a look of [Bb] half [F]
surprise
Like a fox [Bb] caught [F] in the headlights, there [C] was animal [Bb] in her eyes _
_ She said young man, [F] oh come to see, I'm [Bb] not the factory [F] kind
If you [Bb] don't take [F] me out of here I'll surely lose [Bb] my mind
Oh she [Dm] was a rare thing, _ [F] fine as a bee's wing
_ So fine that I [Bb] might crush [C] her where [Bb] she lay _ _
She [Dm] was a lost [Bb] child, well she [F] was running wild
_ [Dm] She said as long as there's no [Bb] [C] price on love [Bb] I'll stay
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And [Gm] you [F] wouldn't want [Bb] me [C] any [Bb] other way
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[Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] We _ _
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_ _ [F] busked [Bb] [F] around the market towns, we picked [Bb] fruit down [F] in Kent
And [Bb] we could [F] tinker lamps and pots and knives wherever [Bb] we _ went
_ I said that we [F] might settle down, get [Bb] a few [F] acres dug
_ Fire [Bb] [F] burning in the hearth and babies on [Bb] the rug _
_ _ She said oh man, [F] you foolish man, sure it [Bb] sounds [F] like hell
You [Bb] might be lord [F] of half [Bb] the [C] world, you're not on [Bb] me as well
_ Oh she [Dm] was a rare thing, _ [F] fine as a bee's wing
So [Dm] fine a breath of [Bb] wind [C] might blow [Bb] her away
_ She [Dm] was a lost _ child, [F] well she was running wild
_ She [Dm] said as long as [Cm] there's [Bb] no price [C] on [Bb] love I'll stay _
[F] _ [Gm] And you [F] wouldn't want me any [Bb] other way
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_ _ _ _ We was [Bb] camping down [F] the Gower one time, the work [Bb] was [F] pretty good
She thought [Bb] we shouldn't [F] wait for the [Bb] first and [C] I thought maybe [Bb] we should _
We was drinking [F] more in those days and tempers reached a pitch
_ And [Bb] like a fool [F] I let her run [C] with a [Bb] rambling _ _ [C] itch
_ [Bb] Oh _ [Gm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] the last [Bb] I [F] heard she's sleeping rough back on the Derby beat
White [Bb] horse in her [F] hip pocket [Bb] [C] and a wolfhound [Bb] at her feet _
_ And [F] they say [Bb] she [F] even married once a man [Bb] named [F] Romany Brown
But even [Bb] a [F] gypsy [C] caravan was too much [Bb] settling down
_ _ _ [F] And they say [Bb] her [F] flower is faded now, hard [Bb] weather and [F] hard booze
But maybe [Bb] that's just [F] the price you pay for the chains you [Bb] _
refuse
_ Oh she was [Dm] a rare thing, _ [F] fine as a bee's wing
_ [Dm] Her numbers are [Fm] more [Bb] than ever [C] [Bb] words could _ say
If I could [Dm] just _ taste all [F] of her wildness now
_ [Dm] If I [F] could hold [Bb] her in [C] my [Bb] arms today
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[Gm] Well I wouldn't [F] want [Bb] her [Cm] any [Bb] other way
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