Bendemeer’s Stream - John Charles Thomas

John Charles Thomas {1891-1960}singing Bendemeer’s Stream. Recorded 24th August 1939. Tommy O’Brien played it on his RTE programme, that ran for 40 years. There’s a bower of roses, by Bendemeer’s Stream, And the nightingale sings ’round it all the day long. In the time of my childhood ’Twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses And hear the bird’s song. That bow’r and its music I ne’er can forget, But of when alone In the bloom of the year I think, “Is the nightingale