Jinny Binghams Ghost chords by Frank Turner

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: DmDm

Difficulty: Novice

Note: Chords between brackets () signify that you only need to play the root notes.

Intro:
      DmDm
If you're heading down to Camden Town
  G minorGm       DmDm
Be sure to raise a toast
     A7A7
To the patron saint of the waifs and strays
           DmDm
To Jinny Bingham's ghost

Verse 1:
 A7A7                   DmDm
Once she was a fresh-faced lass, from Kentish Town she came
   A7A7                  DmDm
Her people, they were pedlars, Jinny Bingham was her name
      G minorGm               DmDm
With her husband Gypsy George a Camden coach house they did keep
      E7E7              A7A7
Till they hung him by his neck from Tyburn Tree for stealing sheep
   A7A7                  DmDm
It broke her heart to lose her love when she was just a child
   A7A7                  DmDm
So a man named Derby took the hand of Jinny meek and mild
   G minorGm                 DmDm
He was a drinker, not a thinker, daily brought his wife to tears
   E7E7                (A augmentedA G+G FF E MajorE) DmDm      A7A7
Until one Camden winter morning, Derby simply disappeared


Chorus:
       DmDm
If you're heading down to Camden Town
   G minorGm       DmDm
Be sure to raise a toast
     A7A7
To the patron saint of the waifs and strays
           DmDm
To Jinny Bingham's ghost


Verse 2:
    A7A7              DmDm
She earned her reputation on those bitter Camden streets
    A7A7                  DmDm
If you'd tarry with the Bingham girl, you'd hold your manhood cheap
    G minorGm                   DmDm
But even so the miser Pitcher was the third man on her lips
    E7E7                    A7A7
Till one night they checked her oven, found him burned up to a crisp
    A7A7                    DmDm
They tried her for his murder, thought they'd finally cooked her goose
    A7A7                    DmDm
But even when the next man died, Jinny somehow slipped the noose
    G minorGm               DmDm
He was a fugitive from justice, for love she took him in
    E7E7               (A augmentedA G+G  FF  E MajorE) DmDm  A7A7
But he beat her once to often and the poison did him in

Chorus:
       DmDm
If you're heading down to Camden Town
   G minorGm       DmDm
Be sure to raise a toast
     A7A7
To the patron saint of the waifs and strays
           DmDm
To Jinny Bingham's ghost


Bridge:
    E7E7
The locals didn't like her, false words followed her around
    E minorEm
They called her wicked woman, sorceress of some renown
    G minorGm
They swore that on the gravestones of her husbands she'd grown rich
    E7E7               A7A7
The ribald and the righteous, they knew she was a witch
     E7E7
But the reason she was hated was a simple one indeed
     E minorEm
She had kindness for the careless, she took in those in need
   G minorGm
The guilty and the gamblers, the harlots and the whores
    E7E7            A7A7
All knew that Jinny offered sanctuary at her bar
    A#A#                  C majorC      DmDm
No judgement for the judged, and you can never fall too far


Fiddle solo:

DmDm G minorGm DmDm A7A7
DmDm G minorGm DmDm


Outro:
     A7A7                  DmDm
On the day she died, they swore they saw the devil by her side
    A7A7                DmDm
A augmentedA mob broke down her door and from her chair her body pried
    G minorGm                 DmDm
The tavern is still standing, it's now called The Underworld
    E7E7                A7A7
And it still offers sanctuary for all broken boys and girls

      DmDm
So let's head on down to Camden Town
  G minorGm           DmDm
And folks, let's raise a toast
     A7A7
To the patron saint of the waifs and strays
           DmDm
To Jinny Bingham's ghost