Beeswing chords by Grace Petrie

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
G+G     C majorC    G+G                    C majorC    G+G
I was nineteen when I came to town, they called it the Summer of Love
G+G    C majorC    G+G         D MajorD         C majorC
Burning babies, burning flags, the hawks against the doves
G+G     C majorC     G+G           C majorC    G+G
I took a job at the steamie way down on Cauldrum Street
G+G    C majorC    G+G          D MajorD              C majorC
And I fell in love with a laundry girl that was working next to me


Verse 2:
G+G      C majorC    G+G               C majorC   G+G
Brown hair zig-zag around her face and a look of half-surprise
G+G      C majorC    G+G             D MajorD      C majorC
Like a fox caught in the headlights, there was animal in her eyes
G+G    C majorC   G+G                   C majorC   G+G
And she said to me, "Oh can't you see that I'm not the factory kind
G+G      C majorC    G+G        D MajorD    C majorC
If you don't take me out of here I'll lose my mind"

Chorus:
        E minorEm        G+G
She was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
  E minorEm        D MajorD     E minorEm    C majorC
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
        E minorEm        G+G
She was a lost child, she was running wild
   E minorEm   G+G          D MajorD      E minorEm    C majorC
She said "So long as there's no price on love, I'll stay
   D MajorD      G+G         C majorC
And you wouldn't want me any other way"


Verse 3:
  G+G    C majorC    G+G              C majorC    G+G
We busked around the market towns, fruit picking down in Kent
G+G     C majorC   G+G         D MajorD         C majorC
We could tinker pots and pans and knives wherever we went
G+G    C majorC   G+G                     C majorC   G+G
We were camping down the Gower one time and the work was pretty good
G+G   C majorC    G+G             D MajorD    C majorC
She wouldn't wait for the harvest, I thought we should


Verse 4:
G+G     C majorC    G+G               C majorC    G+G
I said to her, "we'll settle down, we'll get a few acres dug
G+G    C majorC   G+G         D MajorD       C majorC
A augmentedA fire burning in the hearth and babies on the rug"
G+G    C majorC   G+G                    C majorC      G+G
And she said, "Oh love, you foolish thing, that surely sounds like hell
G+G      C majorC    G+G             D MajorD     C majorC
You might be lord of half the world, you'll not own me as well"

Chorus:
        E minorEm        G+G
She was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
  E minorEm        D MajorD     E minorEm    C majorC
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
        E minorEm        G+G
She was a lost child, she was running wild
   E minorEm   G+G          D MajorD      E minorEm    C majorC
She said "So long as there's no price on love, I'll stay
   D MajorD      G+G         C majorC
And you wouldn't want me any other way"


Verse 5:
G+G     C majorC    G+G                  C majorC    G+G
We were drinking more in those days and our tempers reached a pitch
    G+G     C majorC  G+G          D MajorD    C majorC
Like a fool I let her go and she took the rambling itch
G+G      C majorC      G+G            C majorC   G+G
The last I heard she's living rough back on the Derby beat
G+G      C majorC   G+G            D MajorD       C majorC
A augmentedA bottle of White Horse in her pocket, a wolfhound at her feet


Bridge:
G+G         C majorC   G+G
And they say her rose is faded
    D MajorD        G+G
Rough weather and hard booze
    G+G         C majorC   G+G
Well maybe that's the price you pay
     D MajorD         C majorC
For the chains that you refuse


Chorus:
        E minorEm        G+G
She was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
  E minorEm        D MajorD     E minorEm    C majorC
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
        E minorEm        G+G
She was a lost child, she was running wild
   E minorEm   G+G          D MajorD      E minorEm    C majorC
She said "So long as there's no price on love, I'll stay
   D MajorD      G+G         C majorC
And you wouldn't want me any other way"


Chorus:
        E minorEm        G+G
She was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
   E minorEm            D MajorD      C majorC
And I miss her more than ever words could say
      G+G            C majorC   G+G
If I could just taste all of her wildness now
  D MajorD              C majorC
If I could hold her in my arms today
G+G   D MajorD     C majorC       G+G
I wouldn't want her any other way