The Last Rose Of Summer played on chromatic harmonica by Tony (Bomber) Aked

Music for the beautiful Thomas Moore poem "The Last Rose Of Summer" played by Tony (Bomber) Aked on a Hering Velvet Voice chromatic harmonica in the key of G. Tony is a member of the National Harmonica League. In the late 60's and early 70's Tony ran the Maypole Folk Club in Leeds and played with the Pendas Way Folk Group. He also played with The Yorkshire Folk Company which consisted of Pendas Way, Janet Jones, Keith Marsden and Brian Senior.

The photos were taken in Pannett Park, Whitby in August 2011.

The Last Rose Of Summer
Thomas Moore

'Tis the last rose of summer
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone:
No flower of her kindred,
No rose-bud is nigh,
To reflect back her blushes,
Or give sigh for sigh.

I'll not leave thee, thou lone one!
To pine on the stem;
Since the lovely are sleeping,
Go, sleep thou with them.
Thus kindly I scatter
Thy leaves o'er the bed,
Where thy mates of the garden
Lie scentless and dead.

So soon may I follow,
When friendships decay,
And from Love's shining circle
The gems drop away.
When true hearts lie wither'd,
And fond ones are flown,
Oh! who would inhabit
This bleak world alone?

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• Keith Marsden
• Brian Senior
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[LizzieCornish]

Lovely, Jean..and Tony too. Both the harmonica and the roses...

[jeana1001]

@LizzieCornish Thanks, Lizzie. There had just been a downpour and you can see the raindrops on the roses. There has been a programme of improvements in Pannett Park and it looks so good now. I must take some photos of the other areas there for future videos.

[geetarxist]

i like it

[jeana1001]

@geetarxist Thank you for commenting ~ I'm glad you enjoyed it. ♬♬

[MrTonyBomber]

@LizzieCornish Thanks for the encouraging comment and as I'll be posting some tunes to my own channel in the near future do you have any requests? :)

[MrTonyBomber]

@TBM1066 Thanks Bruce, I will keep practising and thanks for the encouragement.

[TBM1066]

Beautiful touch with the harp, Tony.

Bruce

[MrTonyBomber]

@clarebannerman thank you for the comment

[clarebannerman]

Very well played.