The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #58442   Message #1142646
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
22-Mar-04 - 01:24 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Respite Tavern - Spring on in
Subject: RE: BS: The Respite Tavern - Spring on in
MAG, great minds think alike. This evening I spent some time transcribing Paddy Graber's version of "Parting Glass" :

Of all the money that e'er I spent
I've spent it in good company
And all the harm that ever I did
Sure alas it was to none but me

And all I've done for want of wit
To memory now I can't recall
Oh come fill to me the parting glass
Good luck and joy be with you all

If I had money enough to spend
And leisure to sit awhile
There is a fair maid in the town
That sorely has my heart beguiled

Her roughish eye, her ruby lips
She has in faith my heart enthralled
So fill to me the parting glass
Good night and joy be with you all

Oh, of all the comrades that e'er I had
They're sorry for my going away
And of all the sweethearts that e'er I had
Sue they'd bid me one more night to stay

And since it falls unto my lot
That I must rise yet you need not
I will gently rise I will softly call
Oh may peace and joy be with you all.

Spoken:

Deep Peace of the running wave to you
Deep Peace of the flowing air to you
Deep Peace of the quiet earth to you
But above all, peace.