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19 Nov 14 - 05:10 PM (#3678452) Subject: Parting songs From: GUEST,mollymal 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 ? |
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19 Nov 14 - 05:17 PM (#3678456) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Steve Gardham 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. |
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19 Nov 14 - 05:43 PM (#3678467) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,mollymal 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?! |
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19 Nov 14 - 05:48 PM (#3678468) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Steve Gardham 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? |
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19 Nov 14 - 06:08 PM (#3678476) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: RobbieWilson 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) |
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19 Nov 14 - 06:40 PM (#3678488) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST, topsie A certain (no longer current) morris side would end their Sunday night sessions with a singularly depressing rendering of 'On a Monday Morning': ON A MONDAY MORNING (Cyril Tawny) Too soon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. |
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19 Nov 14 - 07:04 PM (#3678499) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Dennis the Elder Parting glass, I like George Donaldsons version |
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19 Nov 14 - 07:11 PM (#3678503) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Leadfingers Show me the Way to Go Home Straight , then 'posh' (Indicate the way etc) , then Gibberish ( Go me the way to show home etc) |
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20 Nov 14 - 02:05 AM (#3678564) Subject: ADD: Parting Friends (Sacred Harp) From: Joe Offer 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 |
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20 Nov 14 - 03:13 AM (#3678569) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Dave Hanson The traditional Irish song ' The Parting Glass ' is top of my list. Dave H |
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20 Nov 14 - 03:40 AM (#3678574) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,mollymal 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. |
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20 Nov 14 - 03:40 AM (#3678575) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,Raggytash For me there's two 1) The Farewell Shanty and 2) Bide a while by Tom Yates |
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20 Nov 14 - 04:20 AM (#3678588) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Herga Kitty Dave Webber's Parting Song. Kitty |
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20 Nov 14 - 12:37 PM (#3678702) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Vixen 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... |
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20 Nov 14 - 06:20 PM (#3678776) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Tug the Cox Barley Mow is a great finisher, especially if sufficient ale has been quaffed |
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20 Nov 14 - 08:28 PM (#3678800) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Joe_F 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. |
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21 Nov 14 - 09:19 AM (#3678924) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,John from Kemsing Here` a beautiful "parting song". The words and music of John Wallace. https://soundcloud.com/johnhhills/epilogue |
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21 Nov 14 - 05:55 PM (#3679078) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: topical tom My favourite of this genre is "The Parting Glass", I believe a scottish song? Very moving. |
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21 Nov 14 - 11:22 PM (#3679117) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Elmore "River" by Bill Staines is his parting song, followed these days by "And I Bid You Goodnight", his encore. Both are excellent parting songs. |