John Rogers Thomas

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'Tis But a Little Faded Flower

A

A Fadeless Gem Against the Stream Ah! Never Deem My Love Can Change All the Year Round All's for the Best Angel Voices Angels, Guide the Little Feet Angels, Roll the Rock Away!Annie Law Annie of the Vale Apart!

B

Be Near to Me Be Quiet Do, I'll Call My Mother Beautiful Highlands!Beautiful Isle of the Sea Beautiful Snowdrops Beautiful Wales Bessie, The Star of the Vale Better Days Better Luck To-morrow Bird of the Angel Wing Blue-Eyed Bell Blue-Eyed Jeannie Bonny Eloise Breathe It Softly to My Loved Ones Bright Days Are Coming Love

C

Cable Song Come Again, Happy Days!Come While the Moonlight Beams Comrades, Touch the Elbow Croquet

D

Darling Bessie Darling Leonore Do You Think the Moon Could Have Seen Us?Down by the Gate Down By the River Side I Stray Dreaming of Thee Dreaming, Still Dreaming

E

Eilleen Allanna Ettie May Evangeline

F

Far Away Far on the Deep Blue Sea Fishes in the Sea Floating Down the Stream Follow the Flag

G

Give the Poor All They Honestly Earn Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken God Be Merciful God Bless Us Every One God Bless You!Golden Hours Good Bye Good Bye! But Come Again

H

Happy Be Thy Dreams Happy Dreams, Return Again Haunting Eyes Heart and Hand Ho! Reapers of Life's Harvest Home Below and Heaven Above Home Is Home

I

I Could Live in a Desert If Only with Thee I Have a Little Sweetheart I Have Seen Thee in My Dreaming I Wish I Were a Fairy Queen I Wish Somebody'd Come I'll Dream of Thee No More I'll Meet Thee at the Gate I'm Dying Far from Those I Love In the Moonlight Long Ago It Is a Good Thing

J

Jamie's Whisper to Jessie Jennie Who Lives in the Dell Jubilate Deo in F major Julietta Bell Just As I Am!

K

Kathleen of Kildare Keep a Brave Heart Still Kiss Me Good Night Mother

L

Land of Home and Beauty Last Words of Washington Let Us be Friends Again Let Us Speak of a Man As We Find Him Linger Not Darling Little Birdie Little Footsteps That Are Gone Little Willie's Grave Lost in the Wide World Love Good Bye Loved Ones Far Away Loves Early Dream

M

Mary Gray Mary of the Wildwood Masonic Ode May God Protect Columbia Mother Kissed Me in My Dream Must We Then Meet as Strangers My Dear My Native Home My 'Good for Nothing'My Wee Wife Waiting at the Door

N

Nearer My God to Thee Nearest and Dearest Nelly Dear Good Bye No Crown Without the Cross Not Lost For Ever

O

O Come, Buy My Blossoms O Sing Unto the Lord O! Sweet Be Thy Repose Oft in My Slumbers Oft in the Stilly Night Oh Fare Thee Well Mine Own Love Oh! Gently Breathe Oh! Let Me Shed One Silent Tear Oh! Why Did You Die?Old Friends and Old Times On the Bluff Once Upon a Time One By One One Dream of You, My Own Only a Withered Rose Onward March to Victory Our Noble Chief Has Passed Away Our Own Dear Land Our Wandering Ships

P

Pearl of the Isle Pleasant Memories Praise the Lord

R

Rose of Killarney

S

Say a Kind Word When You Can Selections from the Hymnal She Dwelleth Now in Heaven She Never Could Forget the Day Softly O'er the Rippling Waters Some Heart Will Love Thee Still Some One to Love Song of Friendship Still Thine Own Strangers No More Sweet Dreams be Thine Sweet Flower of Kilmeena Swinging on the Garden Gate

T

Tarry With Me Te Deum Te Deum in F major That Song of Thine The Birds Will Come Again The Birth of Green Erin The Candy Stick The Children's Sweet Good Night The Cottage by the Sea The Darlings of Our Home The Day When You'll Forget Me The Dew Is on the Flower The Fields of Home The Gates Ajar The Hand That Rocks the World The Hopes Gone by The Light of Loving Eyes The Miller's Daughter The Moonlit Sea The Old Farm House The Old Time The Open Door The Owl The Pretty Little Maid of Minnetonka The Rainbow Temperance Song The Soldier's Return The Standard of Freedom The Stream in the Valley The True Cross The Union The Watchword, 'Liberty or Death'There Were Shepherds There's Millions In It Think of Me Sometimes Tit, Tat, Toe To Stella in Heaven

W

Waiting in the Twilight Wake from Thy Happy Dreams We Meet Again We Two We Were Boys and Girls Together Welcome Home When Blossoms Come Again When I Can Read My Title Clear When the Evening Shades are Falling When the War Is Over, Mary Where Is Home Where Is the Sunny Land While Gentle Ones are Round Us Winsome Winnie of the Mill

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Ye Midnight Stars!You Never Know What You Can Do Till You Try

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We Were Boys and Girls Together

John Rogers Thomas (March 26, 1829 – April 5, 1896) was an American composer, pianist, and singer of Welsh descent.

Thomas was born in Newport, South Wales on March 26, 1829. A baritone and composer, he first came to America with the Sequin English Opera Company and became interested in the music of America that was developing. He sang and toured with Bryant's Minstrels and settled in New York City.

He wrote more than one hundred popular American songs during the nineteenth century of which his most popular were The Cottage by the Sea (1856), Old Friends and Old Times (1856), Bonny Eloise—The Belle of Mohawk Vale (1858), 'Tis But a Little Faded Flower (1860), When the War Is Over, Mary (1864), Beautiful Isle of the Sea (1865), Croquet (1867), Eilleen Allanna (1873), and Rose of Killarney (1876). Thomas occasionally published material under the pseudonyms Charles Osborne, Arthur Percy and Harry Diamond. In addition to song writing, Thomas composed three larger works; The Picnic (1869), a children's operetta with a libretto by George Cooper; The Lady in the Mask (1870), an operetta with a libretto by George Cooper; and Diamond Cut Diamond (1876), a parlor opera in one act.

In addition to his popular songs, Thomas also composed sacred music, and was also known as a teacher in Brooklyn and in New York City, where he died on April 5, 1896.