By the Bend of the River

A popular song from the year 1927.
Words by Bernhard Haig.
Music by Clara Edwards.

The sheet music:

By-the-Bend-of-the-River – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

By_The_Bend_Of_The_River – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. The golden moonlight, the gloam
    My thoughts returning to home
    And with their winging, my heart is singing
    A song all it’s own
    By the bend of the river
    Where rushes are growing, and waters are flowing
    Far down to the sea
    On a soft, balmy June night
    In the shimmering moonlight
    I know that my own true love is waiting for me
    In the cool of the evening
    When shadows are falling
    I can hear my love calling so softly to me
    Through the scent of the heather
    In fair summer weather
    We’ll drift down together
    My true love with me
  2. The blush of dawning, the day
    The call of birds far away
    The dancing sunbeams
    All prove my daydreams
    That love lives alway
    By the bend of the river
    Where rushes are growing, and waters are flowing
    Far down to the sea
    On a soft, balmy June night
    In the shimmering moonlight
    I know that my own true love is waiting for me
    In the cool of the evening
    When shadows are falling
    I can hear my love calling so softly to me
    Through the scent of the heather
    In fair summer weather
    We’ll drift down together
    My true love with me
    Ah! Ah!