Subject: Parting songs From: GUEST,mollymal Date: 19 Nov 14 - 05:10 PM Apologies if this thread already exists but I couldn't find it if it does. What are your favourite songs for rounding off a good session - obvious ones included because they're not obvoous to all ? |
Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Steve Gardham Date: 19 Nov 14 - 05:17 PM Various 'Rolling Home' songs. 'Wild Mountain Thyme', 'Now is the Hour'. 'Merrily we roll along/Goodnight Ladies'. I seem to remember there is a thread somewhere that covers this. |
Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,mollymal Date: 19 Nov 14 - 05:43 PM ta for those.Wild mountain thyme is very popular as a last song but I often wonder why because it doesn't really seem to be about leaving our going home. Come to think of it Ive never really understood why the chorus keeps asking her if she"ll go?! |
Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Steve Gardham Date: 19 Nov 14 - 05:48 PM It's just a good song that seems to have become a standard for rounding off an evening/festival. Plenty of audience participation/harmonies etc. Will you go with us to the mountains to pluck the heather? |
Subject: RE: Parting songs From: RobbieWilson Date: 19 Nov 14 - 06:08 PM It's because when he got back to Ireland from Glasgow Jimmy McPeake couldn't remember the words to Braes O' Balquidder and made up some of his own Incidentally here is a link old thread( one of many) |
Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST, topsie Date: 19 Nov 14 - 06:40 PM A certain (no longer current) morris side would end their Sunday night sessions with a singularly depressing rendering of 'On a Monday Morning': ON A MONDAY MORNING (Cyril Tawny) Too soon to be out of me bed, Too soon to be back to this bus queue caper, Fumbling for change for me picture paper, On a Monday morning. Oh, where has the weekend gone? Oh, where are the wine and the beer I tasted? Gone the same way as the pay I wasted, On a Monday morning. If only the birds were booze, If only the sun was a party giver, If I could just give someone else me liver, On a Monday morning. My lover she lies asleep, My lover is warm, and her heart is mellow, I'd give the whole world just to share her pillow, On a Monday morning. |
Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Dennis the Elder Date: 19 Nov 14 - 07:04 PM Parting glass, I like George Donaldsons version |
Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Leadfingers Date: 19 Nov 14 - 07:11 PM Show me the Way to Go Home Straight , then 'posh' (Indicate the way etc) , then Gibberish ( Go me the way to show home etc) |
Subject: ADD: Parting Friends (Sacred Harp) From: Joe Offer Date: 20 Nov 14 - 02:05 AM One of the nicest Sacred Harp parting songs is this: PARTING FRIENDS Farewell, my friends, I'm bound for Canaan, I'm trav'ling through the wilderness; Your company has been delightful, You, who doth leave my mind distressed.* I go away, behind to leave you, Perhaps never to meet again, But if we never have the pleasure, I hope we'll meet on Canaan's land. (*alt: You do not leave my mind distressed) 267 in the 1991 Sacred Harp book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIWR5nEXMUI |
Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Dave Hanson Date: 20 Nov 14 - 03:13 AM The traditional Irish song ' The Parting Glass ' is top of my list. Dave H |
Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,mollymal Date: 20 Nov 14 - 03:40 AM thanks. This is great.and ta for titbits about mountain thyme.Ilove parting glass as long as it's not turned into a hymn.Cyril Tawney's song looks promising. |
Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 20 Nov 14 - 03:40 AM For me there's two 1) The Farewell Shanty and 2) Bide a while by Tom Yates |
Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Herga Kitty Date: 20 Nov 14 - 04:20 AM Dave Webber's Parting Song. Kitty |
Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Vixen Date: 20 Nov 14 - 12:37 PM Goodnight Irene... Happy Trails To You... One I call Drink Up and Go Home--"Don't tell me your troubles / got enough of my own / be thankful you're livin' / drink up and go home" Just a few I've heard lately... |
Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Tug the Cox Date: 20 Nov 14 - 06:20 PM Barley Mow is a great finisher, especially if sufficient ale has been quaffed |
Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Joe_F Date: 20 Nov 14 - 08:28 PM Meetings of the Boston Area Chantey and Maritime Singers always end with A Seaman's Hymn by A. L. Lloyd. Will Ye No Come Back Again is (I understand) a popular parting song among Scottish singers. |
Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,John from Kemsing Date: 21 Nov 14 - 09:19 AM Here` a beautiful "parting song". The words and music of John Wallace. https://soundcloud.com/johnhhills/epilogue |
Subject: RE: Parting songs From: topical tom Date: 21 Nov 14 - 05:55 PM My favourite of this genre is "The Parting Glass", I believe a scottish song? Very moving. |
Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Elmore Date: 21 Nov 14 - 11:22 PM "River" by Bill Staines is his parting song, followed these days by "And I Bid You Goodnight", his encore. Both are excellent parting songs. |
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