Beeswing-Mary Lou Lord

[ti:Beeswing] [ar:Mary Lou Lord] [al:Live City Sounds] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Beeswing - Mary Lou Lord [00:09.81]I was nineteen when I came to town [00:11.87]They called it the Summer of Love [00:13.88]They were burning babies [00:15.23]Burning flags [00:16.18]The hawks against the doves [00:17.91] [00:19.44]I took a job in the steamie [00:21.70]Down on Cauldrum Street [00:23.81]And I fell in love with a laundry girl [00:25.99]Who was working next to me [00:28.26] [00:28.81]Oh she was a rare thing [00:30.51] [00:31.20]Fine as a bee's wing [00:32.90] [00:33.82]So fine a breath of wind [00:35.56]Might blow her away [00:37.29] [00:37.92]She was a lost child [00:39.67] [00:40.24]Oh she was running wild [00:41.85] [00:42.42]She said [00:42.90]As long as there's no price on love [00:45.69]I'll stay [00:46.34] [00:47.22]And you wouldn't want me any other way [00:52.75] [00:56.41]Brown hair zig zag around her face [00:58.46]And a look of half surprise [01:00.57]Like a fox caught in the headlights [01:02.74]There was animal in her eyes [01:05.48] [01:06.23]She said Young man [01:07.44]Oh can't you see [01:08.53]I'm not the factory kind [01:10.84]If you don't take me out of here [01:13.57]I'll surely lose my mind [01:16.26]Oh she was a rare thing [01:17.63] [01:18.60]Fine as a bee's wing [01:20.39] [01:21.14]So fine that I might [01:22.44]Crush her where she lay [01:25.26]She was a lost child [01:26.87] [01:27.80]She was running wild [01:29.24] [01:29.90]She said [01:30.40]As long as there's no price on love [01:32.74]I'll stay [01:34.07] [01:34.83]And you wouldn't want me any other way [01:39.52] [01:44.01]We busked around the market towns [01:46.00]And picked fruit down in Kent [01:47.71] [01:48.26]And we could tinker lamps and pots [01:50.54]And knives wherever we went [01:52.39] [01:53.78]And I said that we might settle down [01:56.04]Get a few acres dug [01:57.82] [01:58.35]Fire burning in the hearth [02:00.66]And babies on the rug [02:02.81] [02:03.91]She said Oh man you foolish man [02:06.33]It surely sounds like hell [02:08.02] [02:08.58]You might be Lord of half the world [02:10.77] [02:11.46]You'll not own me as well [02:14.08]Oh she was a rare thing [02:15.55] [02:16.07]Fine as a bee's wing [02:17.78] [02:18.82]So fine a breath of wind [02:20.72]Might blow her away [02:22.07] [02:22.80]She was a lost child [02:24.47] [02:25.00]Oh she was running wild [02:26.57] [02:27.30]She said [02:27.79]As long as there's no price on love [02:30.36]I'll stay [02:31.87]And you wouldn't want me any other way [02:37.56] [02:41.19]We was camping down the Gower one time [02:43.49]The work was pretty good [02:45.12] [02:45.66]She thought we shouldn't [02:46.92]Wait for the frost [02:47.96]And I thought maybe we should [02:50.20] [02:51.36]We was drinking more in those days [02:53.55]And tempers reached a pitch [02:55.28] [02:55.90]And like a fool I let her run [02:58.15] [02:58.79]With the rambling itch [03:00.57] [03:01.24]Oh she was a rare thing [03:02.83] [03:03.56]Fine as a bee's wing [03:05.34] [03:06.04]So fine a breath of wind [03:07.87]Might blow her away [03:10.43]She was a lost child [03:11.94] [03:12.74]Oh she was running wild [03:14.43] [03:15.05]She said As long as [03:16.03]There's no price on love [03:17.89]I'll stay [03:19.22] [03:20.02]And you wouldn't want me any other way [03:25.13] [03:28.73]Oh the last I heard [03:30.00]She's sleeping rough [03:31.59]Back on the Derby beat [03:32.79] [03:33.55]White Horse in her hip pocket [03:35.33] [03:35.89]And a wolfhound at her feet [03:38.45] [03:39.28]And they say she even married once [03:41.75]A man named Romany Brown [03:43.46] [03:44.03]But even a gypsy caravan [03:46.18]Was too much settling down [03:48.59] [03:49.39]And they say her flower is faded now [03:52.42]Hard weather and hard booze [03:54.51]But maybe that's just the price [03:56.53]You pay for the chains you refuse [03:59.98]Oh she was a rare thing [04:01.39] [04:02.27]Fine as a bee's wing [04:04.08] [04:04.78]And I miss her more than [04:06.47]Ever words could say [04:08.59] [04:09.15]If I could just taste [04:10.84] [04:11.56]All of her wildness now [04:13.83]If I could only hold her in my arms today [04:18.02] [04:18.96]I wouldn't want her any other way