Track 12
My Best Girl
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My Best Girl
I'm not sure why the lyrics developed the way they did, but I like the result.
folky number with a hurdy-gurdy drone and mandolins
words and music by Martin Stirrup 2016
(¾ with drone)
E A E
Sweet Fanny Gibbons, she waits for me
E B7
Wearing no diamonds or pearls
E A E
With her hair tied in ribbons for all to see
E B7 E
That she is my best girl
She is so pretty, she is so fair
That’s why my heart will abide
No girl from the city could hope to compare
To her as she walks by my side
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B A E
And I always tell her one day we’ll be wed
And I’ll realise all the dreams in my head
E A E
Forever and ever in our wedding bed
E B7 E
For she is my best girl
Every hour seems endless to me
Whether at work or at play
That I’m not with her is all I can see
All through the long dreary day
instrumental
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as chorus
There she is standing so perfect and tall
Looking for me with her back to the wall
As I emerge from my primary school
For she is my best girl
Repeat first verse?