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Along the Whitby Strand

© John Drakes 2018

“An old fashioned love story. A couple walk along the beach, holding hands, very much in love and planning for a life together. Up on the promenade an old couple watch them and smile, thinking back to the days when they too walked …..Along the Whitby Strand.”

 

We walk along the Whitby Strand

Laughing, loving, holding hands

Sandy toes and tangled hair

A kiss in salty air

 

We’ll write our names when tides recede

Near lapping waves and sighing seas

Pebble pen and paper sand

Lovers making plans

 

CHORUS:
Sea breeze and salt water

Out along the strand

Followed by our footprints

In the sand

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They watch us shamelessly embrace

With wrinkled grins and sun browned face

The old ones with their knowing smiles

Remembering awhile

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Serenaded by the sea

We wander far and aimlessly

Time has flown, the hours go by

Beneath a seagull sky

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CHORUS:       
Sea breeze and salt water

Out along the strand

Followed by our footprints

In the sand

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When darkness falls and day is done

I’ll lie with you ‘till morning comes

One day we’ll walk with wedding bands

Along the Whitby Strand

One day we’ll walk with wedding bands

Along the Whitby Strand

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CHORUS:       
Sea breeze and salt water

Out along the strand

Followed by our footprints

In the sand

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One day we’ll walk with wedding bands

Along the Whitby Strand

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