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Thread #6051   Message #50746
Posted By: Joe Offer
23-Dec-98 - 07:45 PM
Thread Name: Parting songs
Subject: Lyr Add: THE PARTING GLASS (Judy Goodenough)
Rob, that song you posted is on the 1998 Gordon Bok album, Gatherings. Bok says it was written by the late Judy Goodenough, who has been discussed in other threads here recently. Here are the lyrics from the CD booklet, just a bit different from your rendering

The Parting Glass
© J.B. Goodenough

The fire is out, the moon is down
The parting glass is dry and done
And I must go and leave this town
Before the rising of the sun

Long's the road, and many's the mile
Before I rest my soul again
With girls that weep and girls that smile
At all the words and ways of men

And some there are who may not bide
But wander ‘til their journey's end
Or take a girl to be a bride
Or keep a man to be a friend

When I'm done with wandering
I will sit beside the road and weep
For all the songs I did not sing
And promises I did not keep

JRO/Joe Offer

See the note at the end of the previous post. -JoeClone 20-Feb-2001.