Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well (Gil Robbins)

Subject: Lyrics Request: So Fare Ye Well
From: Wachara
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 11:41 AM

I'm still looking for complete lyrics of this song, it goes like this:

So fare ye well my darling
So fare ye well my dear
Do not weep if it's my long absence
While I'm present here
Since it ...
So try to live and ...
And do not weep for me

She runs her lily white hands
And ...
You enlisted as a soldier
And in the war you'd die
In the battle you'd be wounded
And in the ... be slain
...
If I never see you again

I'm goin' away tomorrow to ...
So ... my dear darling
It's about 500 miles
I hope the time is coming
When I and you shall meet
...
...

...
And the drum and fife are beating
To ...
Stand steady by a captain...
Trust in God your Savior
But keep your...

Subject: RE: Lyrics Request: So Fare Ye Well
From: Sorcha
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 12:01 PM

Previous thread.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 07:14 PM

Unfortunately, the "previous thread" linked to do not contain the lyrics requested.

SO FARE YE WELL was recorded by The Highwaymen. It was written by Gil Robbins, a member of The Highwaymen. It's on the album "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore: The Best of The Highwaymen," Alliance CD 96334, 1996. As far as I can tell, no one else ever recorded it. Here's my transcription of a sound sample found at Allmusic.com:

I'm goin' away tomorrow to tarry for a while,
So far from my dear darlin'; it's about five hundred mile.
I hope the time is coming when I and you shall meet....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Fare Ye Well
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 11 Sep 05 - 08:24 PM

It may have been partly written by Gil Robbins, but it appears to have been based on Ten Thousand Miles / Turtle Dove (reference as in the thread Sorcha indicated); with some motifs added from other sources.