Beeswing

[00:06.99] I was eighteen when I came to town, they call it the summer of love
[00:11.24] Burning babies, burning flags, the hawks against the doves
[00:15.90] And I took a job at the steam and we dined in Caldron Street
[00:20.11] And I fell in love with the laundry girl who was working next to me
[00:24.79] She was a rare thing, as fine as a bee's wing
[00:29.01] So fine a breath of a wind might blow her away
[00:32.72] She was a lost child, she was running wild
[00:36.50] She said, "So long as there's no price on love I'll stay
[00:41.13] You wouldn't want me any other way"
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[00:55.35] We bust her on the market towns for picking down and ken
[00:59.30] We could tinker pots and pans and knives wherever we went
[01:03.72] And I said to her, "We'll settle down and get a few acres dug
[01:07.62] A fire burning in the hearth and babies on the rug"
[01:12.35] She said, "Oh man, you foolish man, that surely sounds like hell
[01:17.12] You might be lord of half the world, you'll not own me as well"
[01:23.46] She was a rare thing, as fine as a bee's wing
[01:27.50] So fine a breath of a wind might blow her away
[01:30.99] She was a lost child, she was running wild
[01:34.55] She said, "So long as there's no price on love I'll stay
[01:38.88] You wouldn't want me any other way"
[01:44.49] We were camping down the Gower one time and the work was mighty good
[01:48.45] She wouldn't wait for the harvest, I thought we should
[01:52.94] We were drinking more in those days and tempers reached a pitch
[01:56.74] Like a fool I let her run away and she took the rambling hitch
[02:01.54] The last I heard she sleep and run, went back on the Derby beat
[02:06.34] A bottle of wine her sing, her pocket a
[02:08.38] Wolf hound at her full hound at her feet
[02:12.54] She was a rare thing, as fine as a bee's wing
[02:16.61] So fine a breath of a wind might blow her away
[02:20.17] She was a lost child, she was running wild
[02:23.72] She said, "So long as there's no price on love I'll stay
[02:28.02] You wouldn't want me any other way"
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[02:52.44] And they say that she got married once to a man called Romany Brown
[02:56.46] But even a gypsy caravan was too much like settling down
[03:01.07] They say her roses faded, rough weather on her bones
[03:05.79] Sure maybe that's the price you pay for the change that you refuse
[03:12.08] She was a rare thing, as fine as a bee's wing
[03:16.12] So fine a breath of a wind might blow her away
[03:19.52] She was a lost child, she was running wild
[03:23.28] She said, "So long as there's no price on love I'll stay"
[03:27.28] She was a rare thing, as fine as a bee's wing
[03:31.30] I miss her more than ever words could say
[03:34.80] If I could just taste all of her wildness now
[03:38.86] If I could hold her in my arms today
[03:42.73] I wouldn't want her any other way
[03:46.46] I wouldn't want her any other way
[03:50.22] I miss her more than ever words could say
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