WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Richard Thompson - Beeswing Chords | Ver. 2
Intro:
[The intro is based around the following chords with a walk down from G to A via the F# and E bass notes]
D G Asus2 A Asus4 Bm
D G Asus2 A Asus4 Bm G
Verse 1:
D D/B D/A D
I was nineteen when I came to town
D D/B D/A D
They called it the summer of love
D/A D/B D/A D/G
They were burning babies, burning flags
A A G G G G
The Hawks against the Doves
Verse 2:
D D/B D/A D
I took a job in the steamie
D D/B D/A D
Down on Caldrum Street
D D/B D/A D/G
I fell in love with a laundry girl
A A G G G
Who was working next to me
Chorus:
G Em9/B D
She was a rare thing, fine as a Beeswing
Bm7 A G A G
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
Em9/B D
She was a lost child, she was running wild
Bm7 A G A G D/F#
She said, as long as there's no price on love I'll stay
Em D/F# G D/A G/D A Asus4 D
And you wouldn't want me any other way
Verse 3:
D D/B D/A D
Brown hair zigzagged around her face
D D/B D/A D
And a look of half surprise
D D/B D/A D/D
Like a fox caught in the headlights
A A G G G G
There was animal in her eyes
Verse 4:
D D/B D/A D
She said young man, oh can't you see
D D/B D/A D
I'm not the factory kind
D D/B D/A D/G
If you don't take me out of here
A A G G G
I'll surely lose my mind
Chorus:
G Em9/B D
She was a rare thing, fine as a Beeswing
Bm7 A G A G
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
Em9/B D
She was a lost child, she was running wild
Bm7 A G A G D/F#
She said, as long as there's no price on love I'll stay
Em D/F# G D/A G/D A Asus4
And you wouldn't want me any other way
SOLO:
[The solo starts the same as the intro and then moved up the neck picking notes from the B minor
pentatonic scale (relative to capo). It ends with an Em chord over which his picks the notes
B D F# E and D on the 1st and 2nd strings before returning the the D chord of the verse.]
Verse 5:
D D/B D/A D
We busked around the market towns
D D/B D/A D
And picked fruit down in Kent
D D/B D/A D/G
And we could tinker lamps and pots
A A G G Gmaj7 Gmaj7
And knives wherever we went
Verse 6:
D D/B D/A D
And I said that we might settle down
D D/B D/A D
Get a few acres dug
D D/B D/A D/D
Fire burning in the hearth
A A G G G G
And babies on the rug
Verse 7:
D D/B D/A D
She said oh man, you foolish man
D D/B D/A D
That surely sounds like hell
D D/B D/A D/D
You might be lord of half the world
A A G G G
You'll not own me as well
Chorus:
G Em9/B D
She was a rare thing, fine as a Beeswing
Bm7 A G A G
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
G Em9/B D
She was a lost child, she was running wild
Bm7 A G A G D/F#
She said, as long as there's no price on love I'll stay
Em D/F# G D/A G/D A Asus4 D
And you wouldn't want me any other way
Verse 8:
D D/B D/A D
We was camping down the Gower one time
D D/B D/A D
The work was pretty good
D D/B D/A D/G
She thought we shouldn't wait for the frost
A A G G Gmaj7 Gmaj7
And I thought maybe we should
Verse 9:
D D/B D/A D
We was drinking more in those days
D D/B D/A D
Tempers reached a pitch
D D/B D/A D/G
And like a fool I let her run
A A G G
With the rambling itch
[Repeat first half of intro]
Verse 10:
D D/B D/A D
Oh the last I heard she's sleeping rough
D D/B D/A D
Back on the Derby beat
D D/B D/A D/D > C#
White horse in her hip pocket
A A G G G
And a wolfhound at her feet
Verse 11:
G D D/B D/A D
And they say she even married once
D D/B D/A D
A man named Romany Brown
D D/B D/A D/D
But even a gypsy cara---van
A A G G G
Was too much settling down
Verse 12:
G D D/B D/A D
And they say her flower is faded now
D D/B D/A D
Hard weather and hard booze
D D/B D/A D/D
But maybe that's just the price you pay
A A G G
For the chains you refuse
Modified chorus:
G G Em9/B D
Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a Beeswing
Bm7 A G A G
[So fine that I might crush her where she lay*]
Bm7 A G A G
And I miss her more than ever words could say
G Em9/B D
If I could just taste, all of her wildness now
Bm7 A G A G D/F#
If I could hold her in my arms today
Em D/F# G D/A G/D A Asus4 D
Then I wouldn't want her any other way
