Some time ago there was a thread about "The Parting Glass", but I cannae seem to find it on the search function. Going to the DT DB, I got the MIDI file, fed it to my "Melody Assistant" program, which promptly converted same into a score. This I transposed (with the same program - a very handy feature) up to a whistle-freindly key, and viola; pretty soon I was playing it. Then there is the "Irish Hit Parade" radio program out of Boston, MA which we get up here in Maine every Saturday. When they have "changing of the guard (DJs)" in the afternoon, the departing morning chap always plays a very nice version of "The Parting Glass"... in a distincly different meter and tune than the score featured here. I listen intently trying to commit the tune to memory, but it's tricky; can anyone direct me to a MIDI or score for this "alternate" tune to the "Glass"? One distinctive is that it uses a refrain or chorus: "Pour to me the parting glass; we'll drink the health what'e'r befall / I'll gently rise, and softly call: Goodnight and Joy be to you all." When was this song written, and by whom? I get the impression that it is fairly contemporary - somthing we need be aware of, I suppose, when performing publicly.