Jinny Binghams Ghost chords by Frank Turner

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Dm

Difficulty: Novice

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

Intro:
           Dm
If you're heading down to Camden Town
    Gm              Dm
Be sure to raise a toast
          A7
To the patron saint of the waifs and strays
                     Dm
To Jinny Bingham's ghost

Verse 1:
  A7                                      Dm
Once she was a fresh-faced lass, from Kentish Town she came
     A7                                   Dm
Her people, they were pedlars, Jinny Bingham was her name
           Gm                              Dm
With her husband Gypsy George a Camden coach house they did keep
            E7                            A7
Till they hung him by his neck from Tyburn Tree for stealing sheep
     A7                                    Dm
It broke her heart to lose her love when she was just a child
     A7                                   Dm
So a man named Derby took the hand of Jinny meek and mild
      Gm                                  Dm
He was a drinker, not a thinker, daily brought his wife to tears
      E7                                (A G  F E) Dm           A7
Until one Camden winter morning, Derby simply disappeared


Chorus:
             Dm
If you're heading down to Camden Town
     Gm              Dm
Be sure to raise a toast
         A7
To the patron saint of the waifs and strays
                     Dm
To Jinny Bingham's ghost


Verse 2:
       A7                            Dm
She earned her reputation on those bitter Camden streets
       A7                                    Dm
If you'd tarry with the Bingham girl, you'd hold your manhood cheap
       Gm                                     Dm
But even so the miser Pitcher was the third man on her lips
       E7                                        A7
Till one night they checked her oven, found him burned up to a crisp
       A7                                        Dm
They tried her for his murder, thought they'd finally cooked her goose
       A7                                        Dm
But even when the next man died, Jinny somehow slipped the noose
       Gm                             Dm
He was a fugitive from justice, for love she took him in
       E7                             (A  G   F   E) Dm   A7
But he beat her once to often and the poison did him in


Chorus:
             Dm
If you're heading down to Camden Town
     Gm              Dm
Be sure to raise a toast
         A7
To the patron saint of the waifs and strays
                     Dm
To Jinny Bingham's ghost


Bridge:
       E7
The locals didn't like her, false words followed her around
       Em
They called her wicked woman, sorceress of some renown
       Gm
They swore that on the gravestones of her husbands she'd grown rich
       E7                             A7
The ribald and the righteous, they knew she was a witch
         E7
But the reason she was hated was a simple one indeed
          Em
She had kindness for the careless, she took in those in need
      Gm
The guilty and the gamblers, the harlots and the whores
       E7                       A7
All knew that Jinny offered sanctuary at her bar
       A#                                    C           Dm
No judgement for the judged, and you can never fall too far


Fiddle solo:

Dm Gm Dm A7
Dm Gm Dm


Outro:
         A7                                   Dm
On the day she died, they swore they saw the devil by her side
        A7                               Dm
A mob broke down her door and from her chair her body pried
       Gm                                 Dm
The tavern is still standing, it's now called The Underworld
        E7                               A7
And it still offers sanctuary for all broken boys and girls

            Dm
So let's head on down to Camden Town
    Gm                     Dm
And folks, let's raise a toast
         A7
To the patron saint of the waifs and strays
                     Dm
To Jinny Bingham's ghost