WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Frank Turner - Jinny Binghams Ghost Chords | Ver. 1
[Intro]
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If you're heading down to Camden Town
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Be sure to raise a toast
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To the patron saint of the waifs and strays
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To Jinny Bingham's ghost
[Verse 1]
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Once she was a fresh-faced lass, from Kentish Town she came
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Her people, they were pedlars, Jinny Bingham was her name
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With her husband Gypsy George a Camden coach house they did keep
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Till they hung him by his neck from Tyburn Tree for stealing sheep
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It broke her heart to lose her love when she was just a child
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So a man named Derby took the hand of Jinny meek and mild
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He was a drinker, not a thinker, daily brought his wife to tears
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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]
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She earned her reputation on those bitter Camden streets
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If you'd tarry with the Bingham girl, you'd hold your manhood cheap
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But even so the miser Pitcher was the third man on her lips
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Till one night they checked her oven, found him burned up to a crisp
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They tried her for his murder, thought they'd finally cooked her goose
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But even when the next man died, Jinny somehow slipped the noose
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He was a fugitive from justice, for love she took him in
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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]
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The locals didn't like her, false words followed her around
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They called her wicked woman, sorceress of some renown
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They swore that on the gravestones of her husbands she'd grown rich
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The ribald and the righteous, they knew she was a witch
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But the reason she was hated was a simple one indeed
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She had kindness for the careless, she took in those in need
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The guilty and the gamblers, the harlots and the whores
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All knew that Jinny offered sanctuary at her bar
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No judgement for the judged, and you can never fall too far
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[Outro]
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On the day she died, they swore they saw the devil by her side
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A mob broke down her door and from her chair her body pried
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The tavern is still standing, it's now called The Underworld
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And it still offers sanctuary for all broken boys and girls
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So let's head on down to Camden Town
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And folks, let's raise a toast
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To the patron saint of the waifs and strays
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To Jinny Bingham's ghost