Jinny Binghams Ghost

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Riff 2 / interlude
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Riff 3
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[Chords]
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[Intro]
Dm
If you're heading down to Camden Town
G                     Dm
Be sure to raise a toast
A
To the patron saint of the waifs and strays
(let A ring out)              Dm
To Jinny Bingham's ghost


[Verse 1]
A                                 Dm
Once she was a fresh-faced lass, from Kentish Town she came
A                              Dm
Her people, they were pedlars, Jinny Bingham was her name
         G                      Dm
With her husband Gypsy George a Camden coach house they did keep
               E                         A
Till they hung him by his neck from Tyburn Tree for stealing sheep
A                                    Dm
It broke her heart to lose her love when she was just a child
     A                         Dm
So a man named Derby took the hand of Jinny meek and mild
          G                        Dm
He was a drinker, not a thinker, daily brought his wife to tears
          E                            (riff 1)
Until one Camden winter morning, Derby simply disappeared


[Chorus]
Dm
If you're heading down to Camden Town
G                      Dm
Be sure to raise a toast
A
To the patron saint of the waifs and strays
                         Dm
To Jinny Bingham's ghost


[Verse 2]
A                                          Dm
She earned her reputation on those bitter Camden streets
A                                     Dm
If you'd tarry with the Bingham girl, you'd hold your manhood cheap
             G                         Dm
But even so the miser Pitcher was the third man on her lips
         E                                      A
Till one night they checked her oven, found him burned up to a crisp
A                                       Dm
They tried her for his murder, thought they'd finally cooked her goose
A                                     Dm
But even when the next man died, Jinny somehow slipped the noose
         G                               Dm
He was a fugitive from justice, for love she took him in
      E                              (riff 1)
But he beat her once to often and the poison did him in


[Chorus]
Dm
If you're heading down to Camden Town
G                       Dm
Be sure to raise a toast
A
To the patron saint of the waifs and strays
                       Dm
To Jinny Bingham's ghost


[Bridge]
(all chords palm muted)
   F
The locals didn't like her, false words followed her around
     Em
They called her wicked woman, sorceress of some reknown
      G
They swore that on the gravestones of her husbands she'd grown rich
       E                         A
The ribald and the righteous, they knew she was a witch
  F
But the reason she was hated was a simple one indeed
    Em
She had kindness for the careless, she took in those in need
     G
The guilty and the gamblers, the harlots and the whores
     E                               A
All knew that Jinny offered sanctuary at her bar
   Bb                         C
No judgement for the judged, and you can never fall too far


[Interlude]
(riff 2)


[Verse 4]
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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
 G                             Dm
The tavern is still standing, it's now called the Underworld
     E                        ( riff 3 )
And it still offers sanctuary for all broken boys and girls


[Chorus]
Dm
So let's head on down to Camden Town
G                           Dm
And folks, let's raise a toast
A
To the patron saint of the waifs and strays
                         Dm
To Jinny Bingham's ghost