We're All For Swanage (first 2 verses and chorus)

Deep into Dorset there lies a town,
Swanage its name, by the sea it is found.
To its clean beaches led many a trail;
The pretiesat one was the railwa.........y.

From the town station, to Wareham it went,
Trains to Southampton and London it sent;
Bringing back children with buckets in hand,
To play in tne sea, in the sand.

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We're all for Swanage, Corfe Castle too.
Purbeck by rail, there's no finer view.
Follow us now and pray, soon, it will seem;
We're off to Wareham by seam -Yes!
We're off to Wareham by steam.

If anyone would like the full song - let me know via mudcat mail.

One little story around the song: three of us went to an engagement gig for a singer who had been part of our club for many years before she moved away.

The gig was near Clapham Junction station (Britain's busiest main line station), and on the way back the three of us were waiting for our train back when someone mentioned that on this very day the first train from London to Swanage had run though this very station the same morning.

So risking the wrath of station staff we all sang We're All For Swanage across Clapham Junction platforms at full folk singer volume! (We hearlily clapped - by staff and travellers by the way... )

Ian Fyvie