Thinking about Jen in that cake kinda gets me choked up....oh....that's not what you meant? Sorry, sorry....

The first time I heard Parting Glass, a version by the Voice Squad, the last quatrain stuck in my head and my tear ducts, as well -- the line about it falling to my lot, that I should rise and you should not....but you understand, I at first thought it meant rise physically, meaning the song was being sung to the deceased. I think now it means just to those left in a small town by one moving on to bigger things. Much less sentimental that way. I got that way the first time I heard the Clancies sing Roddy McCorley, too. And the Foggy Dew. Guess I'm just a bloody oul' Protestant, eh?

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