Beeswing (Live)-Christy Moore

[ti:Beeswing (Live)] [ar:Christy Moore] [al:Burning Times] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Beeswing (Live) - Christy Moore [00:13.30]I was 18 when I came to town [00:15.94]They called it the summer of love [00:18.60]Burning babies burning flags [00:20.98]The hawks against the doves [00:22.85] [00:23.44]I took a job at the steaming way [00:26.24]Down on Caltrim St [00:28.37]Fell in love with a laundry girl [00:30.93]That was workin' next to me [00:32.76] [00:34.88]Brown hair zig zagged across her face [00:37.26]And a look of half surprise [00:39.64]Like a fox caught in the headlights [00:42.15]There was animal in her eyes [00:44.23] [00:45.97]She said to me [00:47.43]"Can't you see I'm not the factory kind [00:50.74]If you don't take me out of here [00:54.09]I'll surely lose my mind" [00:56.59]She was a rare thing fine as a bee's wing [01:01.37] [01:02.31]So fine a breath of wind might blow her away [01:06.02] [01:07.01]She was a lost child she was runnin' wild [01:11.85](She said) [01:12.47]"So long as there's no price on love I'll stay [01:16.41] [01:17.74]You wouldn't want me any other way" [01:21.45] [01:25.60]We busked around the market towns [01:27.97]Fruit pickin' down in Kent [01:30.49]We could tinker pots and pans [01:33.05]Or knives wherever we went [01:35.38]We were campin' down the Gower one time [01:38.14]The work was mighty good [01:40.71]She wouldn't wait for the harvest [01:42.71]I thought we should [01:45.91] [01:46.97]I said to her we'll settle down [01:49.43]Get a few acres dug [01:51.62]A fire burning in the hearth [01:54.24]And babies on the rug [01:56.13] [01:58.00]She said "Oh man you foolish man [02:00.69]That surely sounds like hell [02:02.85] [02:04.35]You might be lord of half the world [02:06.91]You'll not own me as well" [02:09.00] [02:10.26]She was a rare thing fine as a bee's wing [02:14.26] [02:15.63]So fine a breath of wind might blow her away [02:18.93] [02:20.27]She was a lost child she was runnin' wild [02:25.09](She said) [02:25.61]"So long as there's no price on love I'll stay [02:29.12] [02:30.74]You wouldn't want me any other way" [02:34.00] [02:38.27]We were drinking more in those days [02:40.97]Our tempers reached a pitch [02:43.27]Like a fool I let her run away [02:45.74]When she took the rambling itch [02:47.62] [02:48.24]Last I heard she was living rough [02:51.06]Back on the Derby beat [02:53.14]A bottle of White Horse in her pocket [02:55.58]A Wolfhound at her feet [02:57.64] [02:59.40]They say that she got married once [03:01.73]To a man called Romany Brown [03:03.72] [03:04.36]Even a gypsy caravan [03:05.62]Was too much like settlin' down [03:08.56] [03:10.13]They say her rose has faded [03:12.32]Rough weather and hard booze [03:15.45] [03:16.49]Maybe that's the price you pay [03:18.93]For the chains that you refuse [03:21.74] [03:22.30]She was a rare thing fine as a bee's wing [03:26.62] [03:27.55]I miss her more than ever words can say [03:31.52] [03:32.14]If I could just taste all of her wildness now [03:37.47]If I could hold her in my arms today [03:41.22] [03:42.85]I wouldn't want her any other way I could hold her in my arms today I wouldn't want her any other way