Key: F major
Verse 1
B
I was nineteen when I came to town,
E
B
they called it the summer of love.
They were burning babies,
burning flags,
down on Caldron Street,
E
B
And I fell in love with a longer girl
E
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
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E
F#
G#m
She was a lost child, she was running wild
And you wouldn't want me
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B
any other way
E
B
Around her zigzag round face
and a look of half surprise
Like a fox caught in the headlights,
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B
hey, I'm not the factory kind
E
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B
If you don't take me out of here,
So fine a breath of wind
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G#m
She was a lost child, she was running wild
And you wouldn't bug me
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B
any other way
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B
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B
We bussed around the market towns
and we picked fruit down in Kent
And we could tinker knives
and pans
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B
And I said that we might settle down
and get a few acres dug
Fire burning in the hearth
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E
and babies on the rug
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B
She said, oh man, you foolish man,
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B
it surely sounds like hell
You might be the lord of half the world
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B
five's a bee's wing
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E
B
E
B
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way
B
E
B
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B
E
B
We were counting down the gown time,
the work was pretty good
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B
E
I thought maybe we should
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B
And we were drinking more in those days
And tempers they reached a pitch
And like fool I let her run
And you wouldn't want me
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B
any other way
The last I heard she was sleeping out
back on the Derby beat
A white horse in her hip pocket
a man named Romney Brown
But even a gypsy caravan
And you wouldn't want me
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B
any other way
They say flowers faded now,
hard weather and hard booze
But maybe that's the price
you pay
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F#
Sheep is a rare thing,
B
E
And I miss her more than words could say
E
s today
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E
B
other way
E
You
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