Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: WyoWoman Date: 20 Oct 99 - 10:19 PM This is a great thread, Ian. Now I want to know the *rest* of the story. What'd you settle on? WyoWoman
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Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Gorgeous Gary Date: 20 Oct 99 - 09:56 PM When I'm at one of my filk conventions, I frequently make Tom Paxton's "Honor Of Your Company" (from his WEARING THE TIME album) the last song I play. One of my fellows has been using Bill Staines' "A Thousand Songs" as the last song **he** plays for the weekend. |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Bruce O. Date: 20 Oct 99 - 09:44 PM "The Parting Glass" is a slight reworking of "Good night and joy be wi' you all", whose tune is in the 17th century Scots Skene and Guthries MSS. The song is the last in 'The Scots Musical Museum'. |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 20 Oct 99 - 08:31 PM I take Jon Freeman's point about "Rolling Home"; it has been done to death in recent years. "When Fortune Turns Her Wheel" is a fine idea, and I'm surprised that I'd forgotten about it. On reflection, "Meet on the Ledge" might be worth considering, along with "Farewell Farewell". Malcolm |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: emmet Date: 20 Oct 99 - 08:01 PM I know it's not an old favorite, but Irish rock/folk band the Saw Doctors have a song called "I'll Be On My Way" which can easily be played solo with an acoustic guitar. It has a sort of calypso beat. Probably the best way to tell if a song is good parting song is if you can imagine someone saying "I want them to play that when they wheel me out..." Also, I haven't looked at all the messages so I don't know if anyone else mentioned it but, "The Leaving of Liverpool" is a great parting song. - Emmet |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: ursa Date: 20 Oct 99 - 06:55 PM Always Look on the Bright Side of Life from Monty Python's-Life of Brian is always a good sentiment to leave people with, and the song is great. |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Ian HP Date: 20 Oct 99 - 02:16 PM Dear me, it's incredible to see the responses to this thread - revived twice. I could not have imagined what I'd started - it has obviously struck a chord with people with the same question. I had picked Farewell But Whenever from suggestions, but am now gravitating towards When Fortune Turns Her Wheel (which I don't think anyone has suggested). Thanks all. |
Subject: Lyr Add: HALLELUJAH^^ From: Judy Cook Date: 20 Oct 99 - 12:33 PM The version of that Sacred Harp song that I know goes: And let this feeble body fail And let it faint or die My soul shall quit this mournful vale And soar to worlds on high And I'll sing Hallelujah And You'll sing Hallelujah And We'll all sing Hallelujah When we arrive at home. Shall join the disembodied saints And find it's long rest That only bliss for which it pants In my Redeemer's breast cho: Oh what is all my suffering here If Lord, Thou find me meet With that enraptured host t'appear And worship at thy feet cho: Give joy or grief, give ease or pain Take life or friends away But let me find them all again In that eternal day cho: I love singing the chorus especially. Judy HTML line breaks added. -JoeClone 20-Feb-2001. |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Graham Pirt Date: 20 Oct 99 - 05:12 AM I Like Bob Dylan's "Restless Farewell" |
Subject: Lyr Add: HAPPY TRAILS^^ From: WyoWoman Date: 20 Oct 99 - 12:31 AM Out here in the Wild, Wild West, we sing "HAPPY TRAILS." (If we're feeling particularly stressed, we sing "Happy Trials...")
Happy trails to you, G'night, y'all, WyoWoman |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Jon Freeman Date: 20 Oct 99 - 12:11 AM Just a personal opinion but assuming Rolling Home is the song I am thinking of, I am fed up with it being used as a closing song in a local folk club. It would make a very pleasant and unexpected change to go back to The Wild Mountain Thyme or Goodnight Irene once in a while. Jon |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 19 Oct 99 - 11:04 PM Also "Shallow Brown", "The Singer's Request" (Trad/Nic Jones) and John Tams' "Rolling Home". Malcolm |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Alice Date: 19 Oct 99 - 10:35 PM refresh |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Joe Offer Date: 23 Dec 98 - 08:24 PM Different tune, Alice. Rob, did the Clancys record this one? -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Alice Date: 23 Dec 98 - 08:19 PM Rob and Joe, are the Judy Goodenough lyrics sung to the same tune as the Parting Glass done by the Clancy Brothers? They fit the tune... just wondering. |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE PARTING GLASS (Judy Goodenough) From: Joe Offer Date: 23 Dec 98 - 07:45 PM 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. |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE PARTING SONG (JOURNEY'S END)^^ From: Rob Derrick Date: 23 Dec 98 - 07:18 PM Oops. Sorry about the redundancy. It's as bad as the old woman who took the two pills "To be sure, to be sure" But to continue the subject, there are two songs called "The Parting Glass" that I know of. The first is the most popular, and therefore accounts for why I can't for the moment remember it. Ah, it is:
Of all the money that e'er I spent
The second, which I also learned from Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem, and the one that is my favorite, is |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Rob Derrick Date: 23 Dec 98 - 07:08 PM This one would have to be my favorite, and as I don't see that anyone has already listed it, I thought I would. It is from the singing of Ian Robb. I believe it is a knocked-about variation on a Sacred Harp song, but I don't remember which one. Singer's Farewell Farewell old friends, it's time to go etc.etc.etc...... |
Subject: Lyr Add: SINGER'S FAREWELL^^ From: Rob Derrick Date: 23 Dec 98 - 07:07 PM This one would have to be my favorite, and as I don't see that anyone has already listed it, I thought I would. It is from the singing of Ian Robb. I believe it is a knocked-about variation on a Sacred Harp song, but I don't remember which one. SINGER'S FAREWELL Farewell old friends, it's time to go You must be on your way Do not let this parting grieve you so Though dreary is the day And I'll sing hallelujah And you'll sing hallelujah And we'll all sing hallelujah When we arrive at home No saint you were while on this earth You trod your path so wide For saints do seldom venture forth For fear they stray aside If God there be some Pharisee Of unforgiving ways Then look for Him for you must seek To brighten up his days And when at Peter's gate you stand With sins of flesh and wine One song of bribe, he'll take your hand And lead you in to dine Though friends may join, and friends may part Though friends be born and die Each song remains within our heart Each spirit ever nigh |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Joe Offer Date: 22 Dec 98 - 12:56 PM We end our church choir concerts with a little doo-wop: Goodnight, shweetheart, well, it's time to goYeah, I guess you could say we're a bit unusual for a church choir. We do a great job on "girl group" songs, too. Goodnight, shweetheart.... Goodnight, Gwacie. -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: RASTA Date: 20 Dec 98 - 10:07 PM STAY AWHILE- TITLE AND SONG OF A KINGSTON TRIO ALBUM HAS ALWAYS BEEN A GOOD ONE FOR ME. OH WE*LL STAY AWAHIE TO BIDE A WHILE WERE NEVER GOIN TO LEAVE YOU OH WE*LL STAY AWHILE TO BIDE AWHILE TILL WE COME BACK TO SEE YOU---- ITS OUT THERE ON CD SOMEWHERE. MAYBE CLANCYS DID IT ALSO THEY WERE BIG FRIENDS BACK IN THE 60SL. GOOD LUCK RASTA |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Gary Power - gpower@canada.com Date: 19 Dec 98 - 10:29 PM The two most popular parting songs I've heard over the years are The Parting Glass and Goodnight Irene. |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Susan A-R Date: 19 Dec 98 - 10:07 PM Gordon Bok's "Hearth and Fire" is a lovely one. I'm not sure if it's in the database. If I find that it's not, I'll send lyrics and album/book information on where to find it. |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Barry Finn Date: 19 Dec 98 - 03:32 AM Len N, Sweet Rosie Anna/ Bye Bye My Roseanna is an all time favorite of mine. The Menhaden Chanteymen used to (& still do) do this as a net hauling song, the most beautiful version I ever heard. Had to be about 10 or 12 of them sitting semi-circle, showing how they'd be leaning in towards the center as the lead sang then they'd grab hold of the (imaginary) net & all pull back, slow & steady, as they rang out the chorus, it was pure magic. I'll post their version, I checked the DT & was suprized that it wasn't there. The mention of this also but to mind another (farewell) sea song called "Riley", a shanty from the Georgia Sea Islands. It starts off
Riley, Riley where was you, Bye, bye from Barry |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Harald Schmidt Date: 18 Dec 98 - 07:50 PM Hi Bert, a friend of mine in New Jersey (Willie Bauer) uploaded the song on his page. You can visit his page: All the best HARALD |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Len N Date: 18 Dec 98 - 07:11 PM Pete Seeger and Arlo used to play a song that would make a nice farewell tune. I have always assumed the title was "Goodbye my Roseanna", but if the title is not correct, the chorus is Bye bye, Bye bye, Bye bye Good bye my Roseanna Bye bye, Bye bye, Bye bye And I won't be back tomorrow Len |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Bert Date: 18 Dec 98 - 02:05 PM I like your song Harald. Would like to hear you sing it. Bert. |
Subject: Lyr Add: ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING WHEN YOU ...^^ From: Benson Date: 18 Dec 98 - 01:48 PM ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING WHEN YOU SAY GOOD-BYE Words and music by George M. Cohan New York: F.A. Mills, ©1903. "One of the musical hits from Geo. M. Cohan's latest play, 'Little Johnny Jones' "
1. My Dad would never preach to me.
CHORUS: Always leave them laughing when you say goodbye.
2. Said Dad, "Whene'er you hear a joke, |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Alice Date: 18 Dec 98 - 01:28 PM Benson, I love that sentiment.
....When he tells his troubles, interrupt him with a joke ...
I know some whiners whom I have to constantly cajole into seeing something good about their life.
I like being able to use songs to touch the depths of peoples emotions, both tragic and comic. alice |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Benson Date: 18 Dec 98 - 09:57 AM I am flying "seat of the pants" here....but I often think of the song and (advice) of George M Cohan....".Always leave them laughing when you say goodbye".........."When you meet a fellow with a tear dimmed eye...you can leave him laughing if you try...When he tells his troubles, interrupt him with a joke ....tell him one he's never heard and he'll declare that "it's a bird".....When he's giggling good you know...that's the time to turn and go.....Always leave them laughing when you say goodbye!!!!! Maybe not a great tune....but a great sentiment........ The Limeliters did one in the 60's called "Proschai...?"A lighthearted and rollicking tune....Goodbye in every conceivable language...... "Proschai, adeiu, aur rivor derci, adios, aloha, aufweidersehen, shalom.......Proschai no matter what the country or the land Proschai is one word they'll always understand!!! (forgive the spelling ) |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Roger "The Zimmer" Date: 18 Dec 98 - 09:29 AM The Corries a 60s/70s Scottish folk duo (one half of whom died last year)used to finish with one of two very short encores that they introduced straight-faced. The first "for the older members of our folk audience" went: Granny's in the cellar I'm surprised ye canna smell 'er Baking biscuits on a damned old dirty stove In her eye there is some matter That keeps drippin' in the batter And when she breathes in the (snorting sound effect)runs through her nose. The other was introduced as a tribute to a young girl they'd met: On the bosum of sweet Abigail Was written the price of her tail And on her behind For the use of the blind Was the same information in Braille. All in the best possible taste of course! |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: AndreasW Date: 18 Dec 98 - 03:13 AM Hi MoonStarM Just enter Parting Glass into the Digitrad Database Search box (upper right corner of this page) and press the Search button. In the result list you will find the song. Andreas |
Subject: Lyr Add: A LAST SONG (Harald Schmidt) From: Harald Schmidt Date: 18 Dec 98 - 01:14 AM I) wrote my own parting song, if someone is interesting:
A Last Song
This will be a last song, this will be a last good-bye
When I'm old and doddering and my race is almost run Last night I dreamed the waters came rushing to and fro
(solo and repeat 1st verse)
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Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: MoonStarM@aol.com Date: 18 Dec 98 - 12:24 AM Can someone send me the words to "The Parting Glass"? I would appreciate it. Thanks. |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Liam Date: 29 Sep 98 - 02:03 AM Amongst many I would recommend 'The leaving of Nancy', 'The Setting' and 'Andy's gone with cattle'. cheerio Liam |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Barbara Date: 23 Sep 98 - 04:21 AM Doug, zygote, see that box in the upper right hand corner? Put [happy trails] in it, like that, with the brackets, and you will have it. B* Barbara8 |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Zygote Date: 23 Sep 98 - 01:33 AM All lovely choices you folks have mentioned. I didn't Roy Rogers & Dale Evans' old standby, "Happy Trails". Corny but nice. Wish I knew all the lyrics to it. Doug |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Bert Date: 27 Aug 98 - 10:58 AM Shenandoah Bye bye blackbird Leaving of Liverpool Leave her Johnny, Leave her Spanish Ladies Rio Grande Let him go, let him tarry Goodnight ladies Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye Country roads, take me home Swansea Town There's even one of mine that might do, called "Kiss for the road" You might want to make the ending a little more cheerful though. click here Bert |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Joe Offer Date: 25 Aug 98 - 02:04 PM Lately, when our song circle is about to call it a night, we put down the instruments and songbooks and stand up and gather close together in a sircle, and we sing partig songs until we can't remember any more. It's a magical moment, a magic that continues long after we've left for home. I have a Cornish friend who says they do that back home, every night after the bars close. If I could do that every night, it might make a boozer out of me. -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Alice Date: 25 Aug 98 - 01:12 PM Oh, yes, and "Westering Home". If anyone has more verses than the two that are in the database, I would really appreciate if you posted them. There is another thread titled Westering Home, if you would like to add them there. alice |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Barbara Shaw Date: 24 Aug 98 - 08:50 PM Here are a few that fit the parting theme, although we usually end up doing either "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" or "Amazing Grace." Adieu False Heart Back Home Again Children Go Where I Send Thee Hand Me Down My Walking Cane Hold What You Got (I'm Coming Home Baby) Home Sweet Home I'll Break Out Again Tonight I'll Fly Away I'll Just Go Away Jamaica Farewell Light In The Window Meet Me Somewhere In My Dreams Sing Me Back Home Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? Won't You Come and Sing For Me You'll Get No More of Me You Ain't Going Nowhere |
Subject: Lyr Add: A WEE DEOCH-AN-DORIS^^^ From: Ralph Butts Date: 24 Aug 98 - 10:27 AM I'm surprised no one has mentioned this one (from the International Lyrics Server)....Tiger
A WEE DEOCH-AN-DORIS
1. There's a good old Scottish custom that has stood the test o' time,
CHORUS: Just a wee deoch-an-doris, just a wee drap, that's a'
2. I like a man that is a man, a man that's straight and fair, CHORUS |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Wolfgang Date: 24 Aug 98 - 08:49 AM Hi John in Brisbane, thanks for replying so quickly (I'm only here about once a week) with the lyrics. Yes, it's another song. Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Alice Date: 21 Aug 98 - 06:07 PM Hey, Allan C., thank you so much! I'm glad you responded. I envy you that old book!! What a treasure. I once was searching an out-of-print book website for Thomas Moore books, and found that there is a book about Mary O'Hara titled "The Scent of the Roses". I just love this song. It never fails to evoke emotion from the listeners.>BR< Alice |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: belter Date: 21 Aug 98 - 03:53 PM To clarify, I ment the last song the Weavers performed in public. |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: belter Date: 21 Aug 98 - 03:51 PM I was going to sugjest Good Night Irean, but some one beat me to it. It was the last song the group ever performed. |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Elaine, Date: 20 Aug 98 - 09:44 AM Holly, Can you please post the lyrics to Chi Mi Na Morbheanna? Thanks |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Cuilionn Date: 19 Aug 98 - 03:40 PM Dinnae ken how this wuid wairk for endin' a set, but our ceilidhs tend tae close wi' th' Scots Gaelic song, "Chi Mi Na Morbheanna." ("I will see the great mountains.") We've had guid success teachin' th' chorus tae th' crood, an' it's a song aboot luikin' for'ard tae guid times an' guid friends meetin' agin, sae it's maist appropriate. Anither guid closin' tune for folk whae ken oor appreciate th' Gaelic wuid be "Soraidh Leibh 's Oidhche Mhath Leibh," which translates roughly tae mean "Blessings gae wi' ye, and a guid nicht." I'm thinkin' they use that back on th' Auld Sod an' up in Cape Breton as weel. It's richt excitin' tae get a crood singin' alang wi' a Gaelic chorus, as it build a bridge atween them an' th' tradition an' build a bit o' hope for th' future. I tell ye, Celtic musicians wuid be daein' th' wairld a sairvice tae kindle interest an' hope in' sic a way. An beannacht ort, --Holly |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Art Thieme Date: 19 Aug 98 - 03:16 PM Joe, To "fix" badly deterriorated reel-to-reel tapes from about that era, we had to be bake those in a convection oven. That'd set the oxide so they could be played ONE TIME and copied. Several cuts from old reels that will be on my almost ready new recording were saved that way thanks to Rich Warren of WFMT Radio in Chicago and Tom Martin-Erickson of Wisconsin Public Radio. Not sure what to do with a cassette, but I suspect the tape could be removed, baked, recontructed and then copied. Good luck ! Art |
Subject: RE: PARTING SONGS From: Sir Date: 19 Aug 98 - 02:35 PM "All Through the Night" "Bright Morning Stars Are Shining" "May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You" "Blest Be the Tie That Binds" "May the Road Rise to Meet You" "Hey Bartender" (Blues Brothers cover) |
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