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[bryant]

This is to blame.

She was:

• Working next to me
  
• A rare thing
  
• Fine as:
  
  
  
  • a bee's wing
    
  • so fine a breath of air might blow her away
    
  
  
• A lost child
  
• Running wild
  
• Sleeping rough back on the Derby beat
  
• Even married once, to a man named Romany Brown
  

I was:

• Nineteen when I came to town
  
• In love with a laundry girl
  

We:

• Busked around the market square
  
• Picked fruit down in Kent
  
• Could tinker lamps and pots and knives wherever we went
  
• Was camping down the Gower
  
• Was drinking more in those days
  

They were:

• Burning babies
  
• Burning flags
  
• Calling it the Summer of Love
  
• Hawks and doves
  

She said:

• "As long as there's no price on love I'll stay"
  
• "You wouldn't want me any other way"
  
• "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 man, you foolish man, it surely sounds like hell"
  
• "You might be lord of half the world, you'll not own me as well"
  

I said:

• "We might settle down, get a few acres dug"
  
• "Fire burning in the hearth and babies on the rug"
  

If I could:

• Just taste all of her wildness now
  
• Hold her in my arms today
  

I wouldn't:

• Want her any other way