Tender Stranger

from Autumn Song by Roy Smiles

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Tender Stranger

I searched all through these London streets
Indifferent to all the danger
Looking for a soul to meet
In search of a tender stranger.

I wandered through old London town
Like a lovelorn, weary ranger
London Bridge wore a sad old frown
As I longed for a tender stranger.

London lost me in its crowds
Lonesome as any granger
Silent in a city much too loud
In my quest for a tender stranger.

Chorus
Will she love me? Will she care?
Will she call me her lover?
Will she stay or drift away?
In search of someone other?

I dreamed away my London days
A child without a manger
Regretting a girl who went away
As I dreamed of a tender stranger.

I drifted through my London life
To my own heart a stranger
I dreamt of love & perhaps a wife
In pursuit of a tender stranger.

Chorus

(Instrumental)

London my lover didn't love ,me
London my lover didn't love me
London my lover didn't love me
London my lover didn't love me.

And so it was & so I strayed
My love almost endangered
I went to church & there I prayed
A prayer for a tender stranger
A prayer for a tender stranger
A prayer for a tender stranger.

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from Autumn Song, released June 2, 2015

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Roy Smiles London, UK

Roy Smiles has recorded ten albums:
'Drunks & Dreamers' (2011), 'Time's Moving On' (2012),'Seize The Day' (2013), 'Autumn Song' (2014), 'Bremen' (2014), 'The Trains & The Rain' (2015), 'Northern Angels'.(2018), 'Lost Souls' (2020), 'November's Child' (2023) & 'Tales Of The Ocean' (2023).
All available on Bandcamp.
Contact: roy.smiles@aol.co.uk. ... more

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