Frank Turner – Jinny Binghams Ghost (Guitar Acoustic)

Drop D (D-A-D-G-B-E) Video Lesson
Key
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Versions (3)

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Chords

E string tuned down to a D DADGBE- Tuning Find strumming patterns for riffs by listening or watching to the song. Riff 1
e|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------2-------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------2-------------------------------------------------|
D|-2------------------------2-------------------------------------------------|
A|-0------------------------0-------------------------------------------------|
D|------5----3----2----0------------------------------------------------------|
Riff 2 / interlude
e|-1-----1--------------------1-----1-----------------------------------------|
B|-3--3--3--2--7--10-8--6--5--3--3--3-----------------------------------------|
G|-2--0--2--0--0--------------2--0--2-----------------------------------------|
D|-0--0-----2--7--11-8--7--5--0--0--0-----------------------------------------|
A|----5-----0-----0--0--0--0-----5--------------------------------------------|
D|----5--------------------------5--------------------------------------------|
Riff 3
e|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-2-3-2-3-2-2-2--------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-2-3-2-3-2-2-2--------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--------------------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
[Chords]
    Dm  G   A   E   F   Em   Bb   C
e|--1-----------0-------0-----------------------------------------------------|
B|--3---0---2---0-------0---------1-------------------------------------------|
G|--2---3---2---1---2---0----3----0-------------------------------------------|
D|--0---0---2---2---3---2----3----2-------------------------------------------|
A|------5---0---2---3---2----1----3-------------------------------------------|
D|------5-------2---3---2-----------------------------------------------------|
[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]
A                                            Dm
On the day she died, they swore they saw the devil by her side

A                                      Dm 
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