The Strand Magazine/Volume 2/Issue 12/The Winding Walk

4038038The Strand Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 12 — The Winding WalkFrank L. Moir

Words and Music by Frank L. Moir.

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      There's a wind -- ing walk in a gar -- den fair, 
      With nut- -- trees o -- ver head, 
      And ro -- ses sweet, 
      By the dear old seat, 
      Per -- fum -- ing the sum -- mer air: 
      
      It was there we met in the long a -- go, 
      It was there we pligh -- ted
    }


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      troth.
      Ah! dear, dear, days,
      'Neath the sha -- ded ways,
      Where we walk'd in our sun -- lit youth.

      There's a wind -- ing walk by the vil -- lage green, 
      That leads to the dear old church,
      Where the pop -- lars sigh 
      To the clear blue sky,
      And the swal -- lows flit be -- tween:
      It was

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      there we met on that sweet day,
      It was there they made us one;
      And the bells rang out, 
      'Mid the mer -- ry shout
      Of the child -- ren, who cheer'd us on.

      It's a wind -- ing walk thro' the land of love,
      With the sha -- dows o -- ver head,
      But from our true hearts
      All the gloom de -- parts, 
      And the
    }


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      light shines out a- bove.
      Take my hand, sweet -- heart, we must jour -- ney on;
      Say to me as you did that day,
      'Neath the rose- trees sweet
      By the dear old seat,
      ''We will love till our days are done;
      We will love, we will love, we will love till our days are done.''
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