Christy Moore's Beeswing
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I was eighteen when I came to town They called it the summer of love Burning babies burning flags The hawks against the doves I got a job at the steaming Way down on Caltrim Street Where I fell in love with a laundry girl Working next to me Brown hair zigzagged around her face A look of half surprise Like a fox caught in the headlights There was animal in her eyes She said to me "can't you see? I'm not the factory kind And if you don't take me out of here I'll lose my mind" She was a rare thing Fine as a beeswing So fine a breath of wind might blow her away She was a lost child She was running wild She said "so long as there's no price on love I'll stay You wouldn't want me any other way" We busked around the market towns Fruit picking down in Kent We could tinker pots and pans and knives wherever we went We camped on down the Gower The work was mighty good She wouldn't wait for the harvest and I thought we should I said why don't we settle down Get a few acres dug With a fire burning in the hearth And babies on the rug She said "my love how foolish That surely sounds like hell You may be lord of half the world You'll not own me as well" She was a rare thing Fine as a beeswing So fine a breath of wind might blow her away She was a lost child She was running wild She said "so long as there's no price on love I'll stay You wouldn't want me any other way" We were drinking more in those days Our tempers reached a pitch Like a fool I let her run away When she got the rambling itch Last I heard she's sleeping rough Back on the Derby beach With a bottle of White Horse in her pocket A wolfhound at her feet They say she once got married To a man named Rominy Brown But even a gypsy caravan was too much like settling down They say her rose has faded Bad weather and hard booze But maybe that's the price you pay for the chains you refuse She was a rare thing Fine as a beeswing So fine a breath of wind might blow her away She was a lost child She was running wild She said "so long as there's no price on love I'll stay You wouldn't want me any other way" She was a rare thing Fine as a beeswing And I miss her more than words could ever say If I could just taste All of her wildness now If I could hold her in my arms today I wouldn't want her any other way
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