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Beeswing (Richard Thompson cover)

from Welcome to the Neighbourhood by Greg U

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This one marks 14 days and 14 tracks of music, with only two days missed!

I've never been much good at fingerpicking but as this whole thing is partly about developing skills, I've thought I'd have a go at a simplified version of Richard Thompson's beautiful song 'Beeswing'. I'm still no good at finger picking.

I first discovered this song through the Futurehead's cool cover of it on their accapella album 'Rant', checked out the original and it's become one of my all time favourite songs, so I have them to thank. I'm pleased to have finally given it a whirl.

Thanks also to Tom Atkin for lending me his classical acoustic.

Hope you're all safe, healthy and happy. As ever, please share and even buy if you like! Some of you have been keeping me in beer and snacks, which I really appreciate

Greg x

lyrics

I was nineteen when I came to town
They called it the Summer of Love
They were burning babies, burning flags
The Hawks against the Doves

I took a job in the steamie
Down on Cauldrum Street
I fell in love with a laundry girl
Who was working next to me

She was a rare thing
Fine as a beeswing
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
She was a lost child
She was running wild, she said
As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay
And you wouldn't want me any other way

Brown hair zig-zag round her face
And a look of half-surprise
Like a fox caught in the headlights
There was an animal in her eyes

She said, young man, Oh can't you see
I'm not the factory kind
If you don't take me out of here
I'll surely lose my mind

She was a rare thing
Fine as a beeswing
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
She was a lost child
She was running wild, she said
As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay
And you wouldn't want me any other way

We busked around the market towns
And picked fruit down in Kent
And we could tinker lamps and pots
And knives wherever we went

And I said that we might settle down
Get a few acres dug
Fire burning in the hearth
And babies on the rug

She said oh man, you foolish man
It surely sounds like hell
You might be lord of half the world
You'll not own me as well

She was a rare thing
Fine as a beeswing
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
She was a lost child
She was running wild, she said
As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay
And you wouldn't want me any other way

We was camping down the Gower one time
The work was pretty good
She thought we shouldn't wait for frost
And I thought maybe we should

We were drinking more in those days
And tempers reached a pitch
Like a fool I let her run
With the rambling itch

Last I hear she's sleeping out
Back on Derby beat
White Horse in her hip pocket
And a wolfhound at her feet

And they say she even married once
A man named Romany Brown
But even a Gypsy caravan
Was too much settliing down

And they say her flower is faded now
Hard weather and hard booze
But maybe that's just the price you pay
For the chains you refuse

She was a rare thing
Fine as a beeswing
And I miss her more than ever words could say
If I could only taste
All of her wildness now
If I could hold her in my arms today
I wouldn't want her any other way

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from Welcome to the Neighbourhood, track released April 10, 2020
Written by Richard John Thompson. Performed by Greg Ullyart

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