The Kelly Family – Bendemeers Stream (Guitar)

Capo 3
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Chords

[Intro] G A D G A D [Verse 1]
          D        D7       G
There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream

        A                          D
And the nightingale sings round it all the day long

       D          D7               G
In the time of my childhood it was like a sweet dream

   A                    D
To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song
[Chorus]
     A                        D
That bower and its music I'll never forget

              D7          E            A
But oft when alone in the bloom of the year

  D            D7          G
I think is the nightingale singing there yet

        A                         A7        D
Are the roses still bright by the calm Bendemeer
[Instrumental] G A D G A D [Verse 2]
       D          D7            G
No the roses soon wither'd that hung o'er the wave

         A                            D
But some blossoms were gather'd while freshly they shone

        D          D7                G
And the dew was distill'd from their flowers they gave

        A                        D
All the fragrance of summer when summer was gone
[Chorus]
     A                   D
Thus memory draws from delight ere it dies

                D7             E      A
An essence that breathes of it many a year

     D            D7             G
Thus bright to my soul as it was then to my eyes

        A                         A7        D
Is that bower on the banks of the calm Bendemeer
[Outro]
N.C.                                        D
Are the roses still bright by the calm Bendemeer