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Beeswing easy guitar chords by
Christy Moore
Christy Moore

2017Folk
4.6 (11)
Intro 1
G
G

Verse 1
G

I was 18 when I came to town

they called it the summer of love

Burning babies burning flags
D
C

the hawks against the doves
G

I took a job at the steaming

way down on Caltrim St.

And they fell in love with a laundry girl
D
C

that was workin' next to me
Verse 2
G

Brown hair zig zagged around her face

and a look of half surprise

Like a fox caught in the headlights
D
C

there was animal in her eyes
G

She said to me, can't you see,

I'm not the factory kind

And if you don't take me out of here,
D
C

I'll lose my mind

Chorus 1
Em
G

She was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
Em
Bm

So fine a breath of wind
C

might blow her away
Em

She was a lost child,
G

she was runnin' wild (she said)
Em

So long as there's no
D
C

price on love I'll stay
Am
D
C

You wouldn't want me any other way
Verse 3
G

We busked around the market towns

fruit pickin', down in Kent

We could tinker pots and pans
D
C

or knives wherever we went
G

We were campin' down the Gower

and the work was mighty good

She wouldn't wait for the harvest,
D
C

I thought we should
Verse 4
G

I said to her, we'll settle down,

and get a few acres dug

A fire burning in the hearth
D
C

and babies on the rug
Em

She said, oh man you foolish man
D
G

that surely sounds like hell
C
G

You might be lord of half the world,
D
C

you'll not own me as well
Chorus 2
Em
G

She was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
Em
Bm

So fine a breath of wind
C

might blow her away
Em

She was a lost child,
G

she was runnin' wild (she said)
Em

So long as there's no
D
C

price on love I'll stay
Am
D
C

You wouldn't want me any other way
Verse 5
G

We were drinking more in those days,

our tempers reached a pitch

Like a fool I let her run away
D
C

when she took the rambling itch
G

And the last I heard she was living rough

back on the Derby beat

With a bottle of White Horse in her pocket,
D
C

a Wolfhound at her feet
Verse 6
G

They say that she got married once

to a man called Romany Brown

Even a gypsy caravan
D
C

was too much like settlin' down
Em

They say her rose has faded,
D
G

rough weather and hard booze
C
G

Maybe that's the price you pay
D
C

for the chains that you refuse
Chorus 3
Em
G

She was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
Em

And I miss her more
Bm
C

than ever words can say
Em

If I could just taste
G

all of her wildness now
Em
D
C

If I could hold her in my arms today
Am
D
C

I wouldn't want her any other way
Chorus 4
Em
G

She was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
Em

And I miss her more
Bm
C

than ever words can blow say
Em

If I could just taste
G

all of her wildness now
Em
D
C

If I could hold her in my arms today
Am
D
C

I wouldn't want her any other way

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  • Em

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  • Am

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