I was 18 when I came to town,
they call it the summer of love
Burning babies, burning flags,
the hawks against the doves
Well I took a job at the steaming,
way down in Caltram Street
And I fell in love with the laundry girl
she was working next to me
Brown hair zigzagged around her face,
the look of half surprise
there was anima in her eyes
Well she said to me, can't you see,
And if you don't take me out of here,
She said so long as there's
no price in love I'll stay
You wouldn't want me any other way
We busked around the market towns
We could tinker pots and pans
and knives wherever we went
We went camping round the Gower
and the work was mighty good
She wouldn't wait for the harvest,
Well I said to her, we'll settle down
and we'll get a few acres done
With the fire burning in the heart
Well she said, oh man, you foolish man,
that surely sounds like hell
You might be lord of half the world,
She said so long as there's
no price in love I'll stay
You wouldn't want me any other way
We were drinking more in those days,
till her tempers reached a pitch
Like a fool, I let her run away
when she took the rambling ditch
With a bottle of Whitehorse in her pocket,
Well they say that she got married once
to a man called Romany Brown
was too much like settling down
They say her rose has faded now,
rough weather and hard booze
Well maybe that's the price you pay
for the chains you refuse
I miss her more than ever
If I could just taste all of her wildness now
If I could hold her in my arms today
I wouldn't want her any other way
If I could hold her in my arms today
I wouldn't want her any other way you
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