Summer, What Summer when did we see you last?

Was it a brief spell last year, or sometime in the past

We remember you in seventy-six when your sun was oh so strong

There wasn't a breath of air all night and all day long.

You often come and bring the rain

Mackintoshes and umbrellas singing refrain

Sometimes it never stopped, we remember

From early May until September

Summer Oh! Summer! We love you

So when you send down the sun, and on the beach we go

So please don't forsake us this year, we plead

Your Sun to tan us, is all we need

The birds and the bees are missing you so

The flowers and the trees, you they adore

The farmer is yearning for ripened corn

We are all waiting for a summer morn. By M Seddon

Alicks Fold

Westhoughton

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