Bendemeer’s Dream (chrom)

W: Thomas Moore

Irish folk song

Key: G

Time: 3/4

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There’s a bow-er of ros-es
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by Ben-de-meer’s stream,
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and the night-in-gale sings
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’round it all the day long.
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In the time of my child-hood
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‘twas like a sweet dream,
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To sit by the ros-es
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and hear the bird’s song.
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That bow’r and its mu-sic
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I ne’er can for-get,
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but oft when a-lone
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in the bloom of the year,
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I think “Is the night-in-gale

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Sing-ing there yet?
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Are the ros-es still bright

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by the calm Ben-de-meer?