TAKE ME BACK (OLD SWANSEA TOWN)

I was born in St Thomas Swansea in 1960.My grandad was an engineer on the tugs at Swansea Docks and my dad was a well known local builder in the Sandfields area of the town near the old Vetchfield.The Sandfields was the area I grew up in as a child in the Sixties and early seventies. This is my story in song of the town I love and adore .

Take Me Back by Derek Davies,
Copyright 2017.

The cobbled streets that paved old Swansea Town,the morning mist across the sea.
Playing football in Victoria Park, those happy days that you gave me.

Long summer days we'd play there on the sands, seagulls cry and children play.
The ice cream van was there, to cool us down,
The Mumbles light house on the Bay.

Chorus.
Those days are gone forever in my life, Please take me back Lord that I pray,To the town and city streets where I came from, to the sweeping sands of Swansea Bay.

Going fishing then was pure delight,skimming stones across the sea.
Campfires burning there all through the night, oh what joy it used to be.

Chorus.
Those days are gone forever in my life, Please take me back Lord that I pray,To the town and city streets where I came from,to the sweeping sands of Swansea Bay.


The Guildhall clock stands tall, above that town, Back then it's time stood still for me.
The Old Slip Bridge,The Vetch, and Swansea Jack,Those memories that live in me.

Chorus.
Those days are gone forever in my life, Please take me back Lord that I pray,To the town and city streets where I came from,to the sweeping sands of Swansea Bay.