Come Walk With Me Words and Tune by Liz Weston
This song was written early on in 2003 for the Maidenhead Folk Club’s biennial song-writing competition. The idea came on a walk through our local woods. The song is dedicated to my lovely granddaughter, Jessica, who was less than three months old at the time. I hope that by encouraging the young down the generations to respect, cherish and wonder at the natural world, we can help to protect this beautiful and fragile planet and everything that lives on it. Liz
Liz asked me to sing this song as a celebration of her Granddaughter Jessica’s eighteenth birthday yesterday November 25th and it was for her that she wrote the song what pleasure it is to sing and to Love the Land. Martyn
COME WALK WITH ME
Written by Liz Weston.
Come walk the woodlands way with me and see the graceful birch and bright berried holly tree
The ancient oak and beech in glade where wren and robin sing in their green and leafy shade
And underfoot in Springtime scented bluebells fill your gaze and shy roe deer slip silently along their secret ways
All this I will show you as we wander hand in hand
Come walk with me and learn to love the land.
Come walk in meadows by the stream and watch the speckled trout in the dancing waters gleam
The willow branches trail the ground and curlews fill the air with their eerie haunting cry
Tread soft among the meadow flowers where the cattle graze and swallows swoop and dart in their dreamy summer haze
All this I will show you as we wander hand in hand
Come walk with me and learn to love the land.
Come walk on moors and lofty hills where soaring skylarks sing and the golden eagle dwells
The water falls and tumbling ghylls rush sparkling to the sea from their high and lonely hills
In summer smell the honeyed heather in the sunsets glow and try to spot the mountain hare furred white in winter snow
All this I will show you as we wander hand in hand
Come walk with me and learn to love the land.
When on life’s path your footsteps roam on wandering ways that lead you far away from your home
You’ll find the beauty everywhere in seas and mountains lakes and woods that make this earth so fair
And when with children of your own you tread familiar ways to show them all the things you cherished from your childhood days
I’ll be there beside you as you wander hand in hand
Saying walk with me and learn to love the land
Come walk with me and learn to love the land.