A popular song from 1957.
Words by Carroll Coates.
Music by Lou Stein.
Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Now that you’re gone
I’m alone on the shore
You’re not walking with me
So the song of the sea
Isn’t sweet any more
But the soft, soft sands
Are the same soft sands
Where we once had such fun
In the warm summer sunshine
There is the rock that you dared me to climb
Darling, that was the place
Where we shared an embrace
For the very first time
Yes, the rock still stands on the soft, soft sands
And it’s more than my heart can bear
Why do I still dream of that story book ending?
When will my heart ever learn?
Why do I sit here pretending
That you will return?
Time and again, since you’ve told me goodbye
I come back to the spot
‘Cause it’s all that I’ve got to remember you by
And I run my hands through the soft, soft sands
Where you once wrote, “I’ll always care”