Beeswing-Richard Thompson

[00:13.57]I was nineteen when I came to town [00:15.70]They called in the Summer of Love [00:18.32]They were burningbabies, burning flags [00:20.76]The Hawks against the Doves [00:22.13] [00:24.95]I took a job in the STeamie [00:26.70]Down on Cauldrum Street [00:28.26]I fell in love with a laundry girl [00:37.90]Was working next to me [00:39.15]She was a rare thing [00:40.46]Fine as a beeswing [00:42.21]So fine a breath of wind might blow her away [00:46.65]She was a lost child [00:48.90]She was running wild, she said [00:52.47]As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay [00:56.33] [00:57.14]And you wouldn't want me any other way [01:00.58] [01:11.92]Brown hair zig-zag round her face [01:14.04]And a look of half-surprise [01:16.48]Like a fox caught in the headlights [01:19.04]There was an animal in her eyes [01:23.10]She said, young man, O can't you see [01:25.54]I'm not the factory kind [01:28.04]If you don't take me out of here [01:30.72]I'll surely lose my miind [01:34.42]She was a rare thing [01:37.04]Fine as a beeswing [01:40.04]So fine a breath of wind might blow her away [01:45.41]She was a lost child [01:47.35]She was running wild, she said [01:50.61]As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay [01:55.67]And you wouldn't want me any other way [02:02.67] [02:31.72]We busked around the market towns [02:34.23]And picked fruit down in Kent [02:36.72]And we could tinker lamps and pots [02:39.41]And knives wherever we went [02:43.28]And I said that we might settle down [02:45.84]Get a few acres dug [02:48.34]Fire burning in the hearth [02:50.90]And babies on the rug [02:54.97]She said O man, you foolish man [02:57.65]It surely sounds like hell [03:00.09]You might be lord of half the world [03:02.53]You'll not own me as well [03:06.41]She was a rare thing [03:09.09]Fine as a beeswing [03:11.47]So fine a breath of wind might blow her away [03:16.91]She was a lost child [03:19.17]She was running wild, she said [03:22.36]As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay [03:27.61]And you wouldn't want me any other way [03:30.42] [03:36.59]We was camping down the Gower one time [03:38.34]The work was pretty good [03:40.78]She thought we shouldn't wait for frost [03:42.78]And I thought maybe we should [03:46.90]We were drinking more in those days [03:49.09]And tempers reached a pitch [03:52.03]Like a fool I let her run [03:54.60]With the rambling itch [03:58.28] [04:10.36]Last I hear she's sleeping out [04:11.61]Back on Derby beat [04:12.98]White Horse in her hip pocket [04:13.98]And a wolfhound at her feet [04:16.55]And they say she even marriend once [04:19.11]A man named Romany Brown [04:22.36]But even a Gypsy caravan [04:24.42]Was too much settliing down [04:28.23]And they say her flower is faded now [04:30.92]Hard weather and hard booze [04:33.42]But maybe that's just hte price you pay [04:36.11]For the chains you refuse [04:40.73]She was a rare thing [04:43.17]Fine as a beeswing [04:45.73]And I missher more than ever words could say [04:50.86]If I could just taste [04:53.30]All of her wildness now [04:56.11]If I could hold her in my arms today [05:01.92]Then I wouldn't want her any other way