Album:    Laughs,
Giraffes & Epitaphs

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Words:  Lynne Clark
Composer:   Ed Hooke
Date of Composition/Copyright:   1985-6
Date of Recording:    1994

Commentary
Words I would have been proud to have written myself and was so flattered when I discovered that they were written for me.

 Come!

Let's take the bikes down by the river

- just us two.

It doesn't matter if we get our shoes wet

or forget the time and miss tea.

Ah!  I'm sitting on the cheese & pickle sandwiches

but that doesn't matter either

'cause there's blackberries on all the hedges

- ripe and ready

- waiting for us to pick them one by one.

Let's rest for a while

so I can tell you that you're different.

I know I shouldn't say this but I love you.

The handle on my basket is broken though.

The berries are falling out.

I mustn't love you.  I know that.

So I'll just write it here.

There's no harm in that.