WASHED ASHORE
(R Wylie / T Hester)

as recorded by The
 Platters


Washed ashore on a lonely island in the sea,
Washed ashore (joy girl) on a lonely island in the sea!

So many times you've told me baby,
So many times you've made me feel
That this love will last for ever,
And that this love was real.

But now the tide has changed
And all the love you stored,
You took it out of your sweet little heart
And just threw it overboard!

Washed ashore (yeah yeah) on a lonely island in the sea,
Washed ashore (oh, yeah yeah) on a lonely island in the sea.

My life is filled with emptiness, baby,
The sand is filled with tears!
How long can I survive without ya, honey?
How many lonely lonely years?

I'm deserted on an isle of sadness,
Where the forgetting is hard to do!
Memories are eating my life away,
Those memories of you!

(yeah, yeah yeah girl),Washed ashore on a lonely island in the sea,
(no, yeah, huh) Washed ashore on a lonely island in the sea!

And with the love you tossed away,
With all my heart and all my soul,
Floating on a sea of shattered dreams
To a isle of tears and woe!
No other love could rescue me, baby,
From this isle of loneliness.
Until you come and save me, baby,
I'll be marooned like this!

Washed ashore (yeah yeah girl) on a lonely island in the sea,
Oh, washed ashore on a lonely island in the sea!

Gone, gone, gone,
With the love I had for you, baby,
With all my heart and all my soul
I'll never let you go...




(Contributed by Peter Akers - April 2020)