Lyr Req: Bendemeer's Stream (Thomas Moore)

Subject: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore
From: Jim Krause
Date: 10 Mar 99 - 03:45 PM

Does any one have the lyrics and music to "Bendemeer's Stream?" I'm not sure I've spelled Bendemeer correctly. I'm pretty sure the melody was traditional, Moore seemed to frequently recycle folk melodies, the same way Robert Burns did.

Subject: RE: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore
From: Bruce O.
Date: 10 Mar 99 - 05:48 PM

Go to Levy collection in Mudcat's Links, in 'Bibliographic Search' on the Levy website put in 'Bendemeer's' (Box 114, #26)

Subject: RE: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore
From: Frank Maher
Date: 12 Mar 99 - 05:38 PM

Hi Soddy, Did You ever find the Words,after?????? If You didn't,I think I have them.....

Subject: RE: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore
From: Bruce O.
Date: 12 Mar 99 - 06:22 PM

Susan Reed sang it on Elektra 126. I'm stumped; I have a late 19th century 'Complete Works of Thomas Moore', but it doesn't have "Bendeemer's Stream" or "Nothing in Life Can Sadden Us", both of which are given and attributed to Thomas Moore in 'The Vocal Library', London, 1818.

Subject: Lyr Add: BENDEMEER'S STREAM (Thomas Moore)
From: Frank Maher
Date: 12 Mar 99 - 10:50 PM


Bendemeer's Stream
Download Midi File
Barry Taylor
Information
Lyrics
Thomas Moore (1779-1852) wrote these lyrics for Bendemeer's Stream. Around 1900 Percy French wrote the lyrics by which the tune is better known - The Mountains of Mourne.

Thomas Moore also wrote lyrics to

Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms My Gentle Harp The Minstrel Boy The Pretty Maid Milking a Cow She is Far From the Land.

For a complete list of tunes by Thomas Moore at this site, enter "tmoore" (without the quotes) in the search engine.

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 sweet like a dream,
To sit by the roses and hear the bird's song.
That bow'r and its music I ne'er can forget,
But oft when alone in the bloom of the year
I think, "Is the nightingale singing there yet?
Are the roses still bright by the calm Bendemeer?"

No, the roses soon withered that hung o'er the wave,
But the blossoms were gathered while freshly they shone,
And the dew was distilled on the flowers that gave
All the fragrance of summer - when summer is gone.
Thus memory draws from delight ere it dies,
An essence that breathes of it many a year.
Thus, bright to my soul as 'twas then to my eyes,
Is that bow'r on the banks of the calm Bendemeer.

Related Links

Thomas Moore (with portrait) Thomas Moore (Links and Chronology) Quotes by Thomas Moore Selected Poetry of Thomas Moore

From
Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Selected and Edited by William Cole
Second verse from
Songs of Ireland
Jerry Silverman
See Bibliography for full information.

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Subject: RE: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore
From: Bruce O.
Date: 12 Mar 99 - 11:17 PM

The opening lines of all of Thomas Moore's songs in 'A Selection of Irish Melodies', (10 parts) and the tunes to which they were sung are listed in the Irish tune titles index on my website.

Subject: RE: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore
From: Frank Maher
Date: 13 Mar 99 - 11:20 AM

Hi Bruce, How do I find Your Web Site????

Subject: RE: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore
From: Bruce O.
Date: 13 Mar 99 - 12:27 PM

www.erols.com/olsonw
There are also some rare Irish songs at the beginning of the Scarce Songs 1 file.

Subject: RE: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore
From: Bruce O.
Date: 13 Mar 99 - 01:13 PM

This may be as good a plce as any for a question. Moore's "Nothing in Life Can Sadden Us" commences "[Women] Dear creatures, we can't do without them". By 1828 some other songs were sung to the tune of "Dear creature, we can't do without them". Does anyone have this tune, or know where I can find it?

Many of Moore's early songs were not in his books of 'National Songs', or in the 10 books of 'A Selection of Irish Melodies', and we may never have a complete listing of all of his songs. That old edition of Moore's Works that I have has a section at the end of about a dozen songs that it says were not in the 'London edition', but it still does not have all of them. Moore's songs in the Irish tune index on my website are listed from early reissues of the original seperate books, except for the 9th and 10th books, which I could not find. One or two of the original issues also gave some tunes, without songs.

Subject: RE: Looking for a song by Thomas Moore
From: Jim Krause
Date: 06 Oct 99 - 04:25 PM

Thanks for all your help one and all, even though it took me awhile to get around to reading all this. Now I have quite a bit to go on.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bendemeer's Stream (Thomas Moore)
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 12:31 PM

Well, this is too late for Bruce Olson, but,
regarding the river:

Bendemir is an archaic name for this river,
and it is in the Middle East.
That is why Thomas Moore included his lyric
in an Oriental novel called Lalla Rookh,
as opposed to his National Airs;
it is sung by the ladies in the harem (!)


Today this river goes by a different name.
Aras / Araxes

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bendemeer's Stream (Thomas Moore)
From: meself
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 01:37 PM

I used to sing it as a kid - I don't recall if I sang the second verse though: it would be one heck of a mouthful.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bendemeer's Stream (Thomas Moore)
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 01:54 PM

All right, no wonder I felt confused.
At the site itself, there is no such confusion.
But we Westerners have been mistaken or have misled ourselves
for several centuries about the name and the thing named.


Band-i-Amir   means "the dam [built by] the Amir."
Amir is an office, not the name of a particular person.
The dam was built on the river Araxes.
It is the sort of dam which does two things:
1) provides a bridge by which traffic crosses the river
2) creates a reservoir out of the river

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bendemeer's Stream (Thomas Moore)
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 01:38 PM

Lyrics and music at the following link. However, I don't know if it will be of any use to anyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FknhV83zCdI