Closing songs

Subject: Closing songs
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 15 Mar 99 - 08:34 PM

Do any of you know any good Irish closing songs other than PARTING GLASS?

CAP'T BOB

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: MMario
Date: 15 Mar 99 - 09:53 PM

What about Cruscian Lan? Not sure about the spelling on that....

MMario

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: o'hanrahan
Date: 15 Mar 99 - 10:08 PM

Is not Irish but i like Leonard Cohen's "Closing Time"...particularly in the uptempo style ala Fairport's version. For a more mellow mood "Wild Mountain Thyme" can be a great closer, even better if the audience all join in on the singing.

An Uachtar. O'Hanrahan

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: Ferrara
Date: 15 Mar 99 - 11:08 PM

How about "Let Union Be In All Our Hearts"? "Let union be in all our hearts, / Let all our hearts be joined as one / We'll end the day as we've begun / We'll end it all in pleasure." Words are in the DT.

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: Barry Finn
Date: 15 Mar 99 - 11:33 PM

Flower's Of The Forest,
Jock Stewart,
Lock Lomond,
Leave Her Johnny,
Stor Mo Chori (sp?)
Dark Island (more a song about absence than parting but it's a nice closer)

Barry

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: Philippa
Date: 16 Mar 99 - 05:19 AM

One that's very popular with Paddy Tunny, Len Graham, Voice Squad etc. goes (chorus)
Here's a health to the company and one to my lass
We'll drink and be merry, all out of one glass
We'll drink and be merry, all grief to refrain
For we may or might never all meet here again.

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: alison
Date: 16 Mar 99 - 05:21 AM

We had a lone thread on this in the last year... can't remember what it was called.

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: alison
Date: 16 Mar 99 - 05:23 AM

Found it.....

here you go.....

Parting songs

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: Philippa
Date: 16 Mar 99 - 06:41 AM

The song I mentioned, "Health to the Company" is in the DT. Just about every other song you could wish for is at the link provided by Alison. Now I'll correct the spelling of Paddy Tunney.
sl n go f¢ill, Philippa

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: Bert
Date: 16 Mar 99 - 08:27 AM

It's not Irish but Billy Connolly's 'Closing Time' would be a good one.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE MINSTREL (Pratt)^^
From: AlistairUK
Date: 16 Mar 99 - 08:28 AM

Here's a song that I used to do to close my shows sometimes. It has no chorus so it was a self indulgence, it was written by Graham and Eileen Pratt a wonderful duo from the North of England...unfortunately I can't tell you the na me of the record it was recorded on but I think it was also recorded by a guy from Derbyshire called Nick Dow:

THE MINSTREL
(Graham and Eileen Pratt)

1) I sang my song at Hasting's battle
To praise the deeds of Charlamagne.
I sang of Arthur and of Roland,
So man remembers their great fame.
I sang to rouse a sinking nation,
That king and man might never yield.
But when the battle cry was over,
We all lay dead on Hasting's field.

2) I sang my song to conquer loved ones.
I sold my voice to him who paid,
To sing his lady gentle love songs.
To lend his passion subtler shades.
And when my silver throated praises,
At last did melt her heart of stone.
They paid me and they both departed,
And left me there to sing alone.


(Jauntily)3) I sang My song at fair and market,
A song much bawdier than before.
Amongst the pigs the geese and the cattle.
I sought to please the crowd once more.
I sang to win applause and favour,
Songs of the cuckold and the whore.
And though I gladly took their money
I missed the songs I'd sang before.


4) I sang my song at times of anger
I found new purpose in my rhymes
At kings and queens I'd point the finger
And bid them see the nation's crimes.
How bitterly did I condemn them,
All those who bled the poor oppressed
but the time was not yet ripe for changes,
And I hung at Tyburn with the rest.

5) My eyes are tired my voice grows weary,
My aging memory's nearly gone.
I've sang my song for the lord and lady
I've sung it to for the common ones
Until there's no more for singing
Until we reach the stories end.
I'll always find the strength within me.
To rise and sing my song again.

There is a verse between 4) and 5) but I cannot for the life of me remember it I can remember the first lines and then it goes blank...it's been about 7 years since I've thought of this song so maybe the verse will come back to me in time.

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See this thread (click) for corrections and for the missing verse.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: Liam's Brother
Date: 16 Mar 99 - 10:22 AM

Captain Robert... Wild Mountain Thyme.

All the best,
Dan

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: bill\sables
Date: 16 Mar 99 - 07:22 PM

There is a very good Closing song written by Alan Bell from Lancashire U.K. called the Minstrel. chorus is:

Goodbye and adieu and farewell
I've loved you but now I must leave you with a smile and a song as we part
the show's over it's time to be gone
But perhaps I will see you next year
When I'll have some more tales to ammuse you
And many more tunes you will hear
I'm a minstrel a peddler of songs.

If anyone is interested i have the words somewhere

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: Barbara
Date: 17 Mar 99 - 04:15 AM

Yes, please! Especially if you can post a tune, too.

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: Roger the zimmer
Date: 17 Mar 99 - 08:07 AM

It must be great to be asked to close the evening for the right reasons! With my voice, I'm designed to chase people to the car park! On a Greek holiday staying above the Aristico Taverna in Emborios, Kalymnos where the owner, Yorgos, daytime electrical engineer and evening waiter and guitarist, kindly let me join in, in exchange for filing gaps in his English lyrics, I usually ended with "Goodnight Irene" in honour of his wife, the superb cook, Eirene, but if they wanted an early night my rendition of one verse of Lieber & Stoller's "Trouble" usually got rid of the punters. Since then I've mastered the second verse and "she who must be obeyed" reckons I could empty whole islands now. On a strange birthday weekend on a Thames sailing barge, ostensibly for sailing and birdwatching with some friends (the weather was so bad the skipper dropped anchor on a mudbank where we stayed till it was time to go back, and the only birds we saw were seagulls being blown backwards) The captain played guitar, the cook played saucepans, I played comb and paper and we drank and sang the weekend away . Several witnesses claim when I sang "Blue Suede Shoes" everyone else dived overboard into the gale and swam for shore. I don't remember that (it WAS my birthday and Greek brandy always makes me sing) but I do remember the Captain saying that in fact he had been playing something else at the time. Good job I can't get to Mudstock, but emptying a field of 3,000 people would be a new challenge. I really envy those of you who CAN sing and play!

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Mar 99 - 07:05 PM

well...this gives me an opening to request a song..guess I'll do it here rather than a new thread for now..

about 20 years ago, I heard a guy sing somethind called "Time, Gentlemen, Time"... about closing time at a bar, I ahve no idea whether it is 'trad', since I have not heard it elsewhere.

I did find this...but don't recognize it..the song had a chorus and was not as long as this poem...any ideas?..(tune, too, please!)

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: Allan.S
Date: 17 Mar 99 - 07:54 PM

At the old Yale Hoots we sang "All the good times are past and gone" Lord I would like to hear that again. Allan

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: Night Owl
Date: 17 Mar 99 - 11:26 PM

Allan S.---do you remember the words...the recesses of my brain has the tune in it.

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: LEJ
Date: 18 Mar 99 - 04:01 PM

Closing Time by Lyle Lovett. Bitter-sweet but not saccharin. And Lyle has just about the best voice goin, though I think alot of us could do the tune justice.

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: Bert
Date: 18 Mar 99 - 05:09 PM

Roger the Z,

We're no better than you. We just PRETENd we are. So keep on singing.

Bert.

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 18 Mar 99 - 06:15 PM

AHOY! The best laid plans? We had a great St. Patrick's Day party and finally decided that we would finish up with Wild Mt. Thyme since it's a song that about everyone knows. Then someone wanted The Parting Glass, that was followed by Take A Dram (a song from Gordon Bok & Co. on the cd LANGUAGE OF THE HEART) which ended up being the final closing song.

Thanks for all the great ideas and there are several songs suggested in the list that I want to check out, and bill\sables I would like to get the words to the Minstrel ~ enjoyed the part you quoted.

Cap't Bob

Subject: Lyr Add: THE MINSTREL SONG (Alan Bell)^^
From: bill\sables
Date: 18 Mar 99 - 08:05 PM

Here are the words for "THE MINSTREL SONG" written by Alan Bell from Lancashire England

The Minstrel Song
(Alan Bell)

When I was a young lad and eager
For the footlights and fortune and fame
I met an old trouper his name it was Sam
And he taught me the rules of the game
He showed me the ways of the theatre
How always the show must go on
I learned how to enter, to stand, take a bow
Whenever I sang his song

CHORUS
Goodbye and adieu and farewell
I've loved you but now I must leave you
With a smile and a song as we part
The show's over it's time to be gone
But perhaps I will see you next year
When I'll have some more tales to ammuse you
And many more tunes you will hear
I'm a minstrel a peddler of songs.

I've worked all the small country theatres
And toured round the old music halls
I've died in the first house on a wet monday night
But I've lived to take six curtain calls
I've starved like a beggar on Broadway
And been broke down the Champs Elesey
But when the show's over and the curtain came down
I could always smile and say

I've courted the girls in the chorus
And lingered in many a late bar
I've gazed up in awe at my name in bright lights
To think I had become a star
I once loved a beauty named Nancy
Whose loving was so sweet and strong
But she wanted a house and some kids and a dog
So sadly I sang my song

So I've spent all my life entertaining
And lived by the stage door routine
I've had many chances and missed quite a few
I'm not yearning for what might have been
Now many long years lie behind me
And I hope there are still some to come
When I stand on the stage with the house lights turned down
As the audience sing my song

Sorry I can't put the tune on I don't know how Perhaps alison or someone could give me a lesson in putting music onto a thread
Cheers Bill

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Click to play

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: Allan S.
Date: 19 Mar 99 - 10:05 AM

I only remember the chorus All the good times are past and gone, all the good times are ore All the good times are past and gone, little darling dont you weep no more Do you remember any of the verses?? I will try to find them. Allan

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: Ian
Date: 19 Mar 99 - 11:24 AM

All The Good Times in DT - search for "Good Times". Bluegrass fave!

Subject: Tune Add: THE MINSTREL SONG
From: alison
Date: 24 Mar 99 - 10:49 PM

hi,

Here is the tune for THE MINSTREL SONG posted above, (thanks to Bill Sables for the tune)...

composed by Alan Bell

ABC format:

X:1
T:untitled
M:3/4
Q:1/4=76
K:D
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GF5|AAfffe|dAF4|AAAAAB|AG5|GGgggf|ecBcA2|
AAAAf2|ed5|AAfffe|df5|AAfffg|aag4|eeeeed|
ce5|Aeeeff|ed5|AAfffe|df5|AAfffg|aag4|eeeeed|
ce5|Aeeeff|ed||

Slainte

alison

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Click to play

Subject: RE: Closing songs
From: bill\sables
Date: 24 Mar 99 - 11:49 PM

The above tune and the words of the minstrell song are not mine ,although I wish they were , They were written by Alan Bell from Lancashire England If you would like to give him credit for them. Cheers Bill

Subject: Missing verse to Song of Ages or 'The Minstrel'
From: Taniwha
Date: 21 Mar 00 - 07:19 AM

I have the missing verse of AlistairUK still wants it: I don't know how to contact him but my e-mail is : [e-mail]