Beeswing

I was nineteen when I came to town

They called it the Summer of Love

They were burning pages, 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

Oh she was a rare thing

Fine as a bee's wing

So fine a breath of wind might blow her away

She was a lost child

Well, 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 around her face

A look of half-surprise

Like a fox caught in the headlights

There was 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"

Oh she was a rare thing

Fine as a bee's wing

So fine a breath of wind might blow her away

She was a lost child

Well, 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

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"

Oh she was a rare thing

Fine as a bee's wing

So fine a breath of wind might blow her away

She was a lost child

Well, 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 were camping down the Gower one time

The work was pretty good

She thought we shouldn't wait for the frost

And I thought maybe we should

We were fighting more in those days

And tempers reached a pitch

And like a fool I let her run with the rambling itch

Oh she was a rare thing

Fine as a bee's wing

So fine a breath of a wind might blow her away

She was a lost child

Well, 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"

She said, "As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay

And you wouldn't want me any other way"