Farewell songs for the last round

Subject: Farewell songs for the last round
From: GUEST,Musicmic
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 10:33 PM

I was playing a wedding, last night, and one of the guests was, originally, from Glasgow. I, quickly, had him singing along with "I Belong to Glasgow" and, as a final number, "I'm Noo Awa' Tae Bide Awa'" which he just loved and sang with abandon. (I wound up with a $150 tip from the mother-of-the-bride and a solid rave to the agent).
If the gentleman had been from Ireland, I would have tried "The Parting Glass". I imagine it would have achieved a like affect. I know that there must be lots of songs in that genre. I don't know what the English use for frothy farewells. Americans used to sing "Show Me The Way To Go Home" but they don't do that so much, nowadays. The Univ. of Pennsylvania frats sing a real pretty one called "Drink a Highball at Nightfall".
I am not talking about all drinking songs (although I love them). I mean those songs that good friends sing when they part.

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: iancarterb
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 11:01 PM

You are right, the era of Good Night Ladies and Show
me the Way is long gone, 'tho anyone over 60 (I am) might respond favorably to either, because familiarity is powerful. There's a sweet song (I think by Tom T Hall), It's Been Something Seeing You Tonight, that I've heard several people use as a show closer. I don't know how wide its currency is, but I suspect it will grow wider.

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Padre
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 11:07 PM

'So Long, It's been Good to Know You'

'The Farewell Chantey' (It is time to go now...)

Padre

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: GUEST,Musicmic
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 01:30 AM

Thanks. I had forgotten about "Goodnight, Ladies" (That one is over a century old but, perhaps, familiar because Meridith Wilson wove it into the score for "The Music Man"). Sure, we used Woodie's "So Long, It's Been Good To Know You" as a last song as well as Leadbelly's "Goodnight, Irene". Every prom at every school closed with "Goodnight, Sweetheart".
There were other non alcoholic ta-ta tunes. Most of the summer camps I have worked at had some variation of "Friends, Friends, Friends, We Will Always Be", the singing of which meant we were out of marshmellows.

                     Mike

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: jacqui.c
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 07:32 AM

There's 'Goodnight Irene'.

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Sorcha
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 09:20 AM

Well, jacqui, 'jump in the river and drown' isn't exactly uplifting is it? smile...

Why do we only use Auld Lang Syne on New Years?

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Sorcha
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 09:52 AM

So long, it's been good to know you....

It's corny, but from Sound of Music: Goodbye, farewell, so long
(when the skarper off stage and out of Austria)

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: van lingle
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 10:18 AM

Fairport Convention's Farewell, Farewell (of which Danu did a beautiful recording not too long ago) might work. I think Richard Thompson got writing credit for it but I believe the tune is traditional. Anyhoo it starts out:

Farewell, farewell to you who would hear,
You lonely travelers all,
The cold north wind will blow again,
The winding road does call.

Hope I got that right.vl

Subject: Lyr Add: AND WE BID YOU GOOD NIGHT
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 10:42 AM

"And We Bid You Goodnight" is popular with many performers. The Incredible String Band and the Grateful Dead sang it. (There's a thread that says it's in the DT, but I couldn't find it.)

AND WE BID YOU GOOD NIGHT

Lyrics: Traditional [Sarah Doudney]
Music: Traditional [Ira David Sankey]

Lay down my dear brothers, lay down and take your rest
Oh won't you lay your head upon your saviour's breast
I love you, oh but Jesus loves you the best
And I bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
And I bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
And I bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight

Walking in Jerusalem just like John (bid you goodnight, goodnight)
I remember right well, I remember right well (bid you goodnight, goodnight)
His rod and his staff shall comfort me (bid you goodnight, goodnight)
Tell "A" for the ark, that wonderful boat (bid you goodnight, goodnight)
Tell "B" for the beast at the ending of the wood (bid you goodnight, goodnight)
Well it eat all the children that would'nt be good (bid you goodnight, goodnight)
I'm walking in Jerusalem just like John (bid you goodnight, goodnight)
Walking in the valley of the shadow of death (bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight)

And I bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight
And I bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight

Source of these lyrics:
http://www3.clearlight.com/~acsa/introjs.htm?/~acsa/songfile/ANDWEBID.HTM

Elmer

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: eddie1
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 10:50 AM

Hi Sorcha

In Scotland, "Auld Lang Syne" is used to finish off many gettogethers. Not only at New Year. The advantage is that everyone knows it albeit with different pronunciations!

Hi Musicmic

There might be a few Scots who would take exception to you claiming "The Parting Glass" was Irish but in the spirit of the season, I won't go down that road. It is a great song to finish on.

Happy 2007 to all

Eddie

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Effsee
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 10:57 AM

"Tak' a dram afore ye go" by MIRK, written by Ian Sinclair of same.

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 01:53 PM

There is a beautiful old round from England ( 17th C.) whose words are

Sing with thy mouth, sing with thy heart.
Let every voice sing "Loath to depart."
Though friends together we will always remain,
Yet "Loath to depart" sing once again.

When heard, the tune seems rather drab, but when the parts combine, it is quite beautiful.

Sorry I can't find the MIDI for you, but it's worth investigating.

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: scouse
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 07:02 PM

I think of.....
"All the tunes in the World are dancin' around in my head,
The clock on the wall say's it's time to go home,
Tomorrow we'll sing them instead."

As Aye,
Phil..

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Alice
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 07:31 PM

I have sung an obscure one as farewell but most people don't know it.
by Thomas Moore
Farewell But Whenever you welcome the hour
That awakens the night song of mirth in your bower
Then think of the Friend who once welcomed it too
And forgot his own griefs to be happy with you
His griefs may return, not a hope may remain,
Of the view that once brightened his pathway of pain,
But he ne'er will forget the short vision which threw,
It's enchantment around him, while lingering with you.

More on this old thread Click here

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Joe_F
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 07:36 PM

I gather than "Will Ye No Come Back Again" is traditional in some circles.

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 01 Jan 07 - 06:19 PM

'Rolling Home' by John Tams might be worth a try. The chorus easily picked up by those who don't know the words, which I would imagine would be most of the audience, if they across the pod, or non-folkies.

see thread with lyrics & midi

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 01 Jan 07 - 06:41 PM

By heck, Scouse!!

ye beat uz to kit!

"Aaall the tunes in the world" hez te be THE best gannin hyem song

Lay doon the borrowed guitar
Lay doon the fiddle and bow
The'd like one more drink at the bar
But the landlord has said, "Time to go"

Fabulous, fabulous song!!

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: GUEST,Musicmic
Date: 01 Jan 07 - 08:13 PM

I thank you for the new ideas and, even more for the old ideas. Eddie is quite correct to mention that "Auld Lang Syne" is more than just Dick Clark's theme song and Joe's entry, "Will You No Come Back, Again", has, often, been used as the last song of some of the best sessions I have attended. (Parting may be sweet sorrow but the Scots seem to have made a culture out of it) "And We Bid You, Goodnight" takes me back to Fox Hollow, in the late 60's, when we learned it from The Golden Ring. "Rolling Home" was the last song at every session with Spencer Nelson or Theresa Pyott of OUTWARD BOUND and most other chanty singers, too.
Anyway, thanks for the memories.

                      Mike

Subject: Lyr Add: THE PARTING GLASS
From: BobbyO'Brien
Date: 01 Jan 07 - 08:23 PM

"The Parting Glass"

Of all the money that e'er I had, I spent it in good company;
And all the harm I've ever done, alas was done to none but me;
And all I've done for want of wit, to memory now I can't recall,
So fill me to the parting glass, goodnight and joy be with you all.

Of all the comrades e'er I had, they're sorry for my going away,
And all the frends that e'er I had,they wished me 1 more day to stay,
But since it falls unto my lot that I should go and you should not,
I'll gently rise and softly call, goodnight and joy be with you all.

If I had money enough to spend and leisure time to sit awhile,
There is a fair maid in this town who sorely has my heart beguiled.
Her rosy cheeks and ruby lips, I own she has my heart in thrall,
So fill me to the parting glass, goodnight and joy be with you all.

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 01 Jan 07 - 09:22 PM

Dave Webber's "The Parting Song" has to be the best new traditional way to wind up an evening.
"Sing together one and all and raise a glass of wine...."
However, it is probably not as widely known as other suggestions.

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: GUEST,Musicmic
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 12:43 AM

I do knot know Dave Webber or his song. Is it recorded?

Subject: Lyr Add: HERE IS MY HOME (Si Kahn)
From: JennyO
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 01:42 AM

Here are a couple. I'll just post the chorus of the first one - it's in the DT:

HEALTH TO THE COMPANY

Here's a health to the company and one to my lass
Let us drink and be merry all out of one glass
Let us drink and be merry, all grief to refrain
For we may and might never all meet here again


And here is another one I like to sing:

HERE IS MY HOME
(Si Kahn)

Good friends from whom we now must part,
Where are we bound?
Your hands and voices lift my heart;
Here is my home.

CHORUS:
Come darkness, come light
Where are we bound?
Come morning, come night
Here is my home.

For those who work in harmony,
Where are we bound?
Can learn to live in unity;
Here is my home.

If we can join ourselves in song,
Where are we bound?
Our hearts will live when we are gone;
Here is my home.

The spirit that finds music here
Where are we bound?
Will sing forever in the air
Here is my home.

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: eddie1
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 07:23 AM

One of my favourite people and singers was the late Iain MacKintosh.
Three great songs I heard from him are:-
The Special Friends – Iain MacKintosh
A Sweet Song of Yesterday – Bob Zentz
All The Good People – Ken Hicks

All good finishers with great choruses.

Eddie

Subject: Lyr Add: ONE MORE MADMAN (Dick McCormack)
From: Midchuck
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 08:44 AM

Here's a little more downbeat one, written many years ago by an old friend who had recently been "dumped." (He never performed it much because the bar owners didn't like him to. They wanted the customers to leave feeling good.) And of course it predates the present stronger taboos on drunk driveing:

ONE MORE MADMAN
(Dick McCormack)

All the glasses are gone off the table
All the customers gone from the place.
The music's gone out of my fingers,
Like the color's gone out of my face.

Tonight I'll just turn off the headlights
And drive by the light of the moon.
'Cause these days, sleep comes slowly
And the God Damn morning comes too soon

(Cho.)

I'm only one more madman,
Saying "goodnight" to the bar;
Who carries his load only barely,
And his dreams just a little too far.
Who finds something novel in losing
And romance in being alone
Only one more madman
One more drunk going home.

There's a look in our eyes of knowing more than we're saying.
Oklahoma dust left on our shoes.
Kerouac and Rimbaud sticking out of our back pockets,
New York streets and the poetry of the blues.

But you get tired of this romance of decadence,
And the second-hand life we live on loans.
Tired of waking up with strangers,
And sick and tired of waking up alone.

(Cho.)

A madman is someone you write songs about.
A madman is something to see.
A madman is someone you can love from a safe distance,
But a madman ain't nothing you'd want to be.

So here's to us all, goodnight ladies,
We are what we are when we're alone.
Here's to us bums with our guitars,
And here's to you drunks going home.

(Cho.)

(Repeat last 2 lines of Cho.)

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Singing Referee
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 09:27 AM

Dave Webber's Parting song is on Dave and Anni's "Together Solo" album. There's a clip of it here.

Johnny Collins has also recorded it and you can find a clip of his recording here.

Both show what a great chorus song it is. One of the best DIY harmony songs going!

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Willa
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 10:23 AM

Hi JennyO - you beat me to it with Si Kahn's wonderful song. I use it, because although it is not particularly widely knownthe chorus is soon picked up. Just love the words!

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: JennyO
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 10:33 AM

Yes Willa, I agree. I find the words quite moving. The first time I ever heard that song was at a festival - it was just on sunset, the sky was glowing red through the trees, and I heard Kate Fagan's beautiful voice wafting through the air. Magic!

Then a few years ago, when I moved into my present house under some rather amazing circumstances, I sang it at the house-warming. Yes - very special!

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 03:26 PM

Thanks JennyO!

I've had the line "for we may or may never all meet here again" going round in my head since I made my earlier post!

Willa, ello M'dear!

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: breezy
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 04:20 PM

Dave Webber's song is often sung when all depart from after meeting up for may day in Padstow and sung at the ring o bells St Issey

'........
Here's hoping we shall meet again , upon the road of time'

See yus all there,

Subject: Lyr Add: TILL WE MEET AGAIN (chorus only)
From: GUEST,Musicmic
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 04:35 PM

I will listen and learn the songs you have suggested. In reading the posts, I have remembered a few more. "The Wiffenpoof Song" and the less familiar West Point anthem, "Benny Haven's, Oh". I, sometimes, end shows with a medley of "Let The Rest Of The World Go By", "Till We Meet Again" and "Now Is The Hour". The words to "Till We Meet Again" seem to say it all.

   Smile the while you bid me sad adieu
   When the clouds roll by, I'll come to you.
   Then, the skies will seem more blue
   Down in Lovers Lane (my dearie)
   Wedding bells will ring their melody
   Every tear will be a memory
   So, wait and pray each night for me,
   'til we meet again.


                  Mike

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Celtaddict
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 06:32 PM

I agree that Dave Webber's 'Parting Song' and the Padstowe chantey are great, and there are a number of going home shanties, and 'The Going Home Song' but there are some grand more contemporary ones too.

Rick Fielding and Holmes Hooke's 'When We Gather Once More' on 'This One's the Dreamer'
chorus
Be well, be safe, be kind, be strong,
For the times will test us sore
And to gladden our hearts,
Our bodies, our souls,
Oh, be here when we gather once more.
(The last verse, in Rick's voice, still brings me tears.)

And, George Papavgeris (El Greko) manages to be both touching and funny with 'Friends Like These' on 'Ordinary Heroes.'
chorus
Who needs fame and who needs fortune?
And who needs a life of ease?
I'm the richest in the county
When I'm blest with friends like these.
(the last verse of this is delicious, remarking that if the angels take you, and the devil takes my soul, "we'll still harmonize together, you above and me below.")

And Allister MacGillivray's 'Here's to Song'
chorus
Here's to song and here's to time
Here's to both with friends of mine
Here's to friends who raise their voices high.
Kings have riches, widely lain,
Lords have lands but then again
We have friends and songs no wealth can buy.

All three choruses are easy to learn and lend themselves well to harmonizing.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE GOODNIGHT SONG
From: JennyO
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 08:47 PM

I must add this one which I heard performed by a great local group - The Wheeze and Suck Band. They often do it as their closing song. It has a good chorus:

The Goodnight Song

(Sung by Blue Murder with Jim Boyes singing lead on their album No One Stands Alone.)

Chorus (after each verse):
So goodnight my friends as the dawn comes pale
And the Eastern wind brings the threat of gale
Keep a hold on hope through the darkest vale
And we'll meet further on down the road

I have travelled far from this island strand
From the icy wastes to the burning sand
Ploughed the raging sea, seen the verdant land
Been at home in a place far away

Many differences but much the same
Though the ways are strange and have different names
But a friendly face breaks a thousand chains
And a smile breaks the lock on the door

We have joined in song, laughed a night away
Swapped out tales of woe, kept the clouds at bay
In the morning clear will be on our way
But we'll meet further on down the road

So lets drink a health to good times gone by
When our spirits soared and we touched the sky
And we'll bid farewell but not goodbye
And we'll meet further on down the road

Chorus:
So goodnight my friends as the dawn comes pale
And the Eastern wind brings the threat of gale
Keep a hold on hope through the darkest vale
And we'll meet further on down the road.

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Bert
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 12:27 AM

Just a wee doch an doris

Just a wee drap that's a

Just a wee doch an doris

Before you gang awa

There's a wee wifey waitin

In a wee But 'n Ben

If you can say

"It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht"

Then you're a richt ye ken

Subject: Lyr Add: TILL WE MEET AGAIN
From: Bert
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 12:48 AM

Hey Mike,

I thought I was the only one who sings that one nowadays.

-------------------------

Till We Meet Again

There's a song in the land of the lily,
Each sweetheart has heard with a sigh.
Over high garden walls this sweet echo falls
As a soldier boy whispers goodbye:

Smile the while you kiss me sad adieu
When the clouds roll by I'll come to you.
Then the skies will seem more blue,
Down in Lover's Lane, my dearie.

Wedding bells will ring so merrily
Ev'ry tear will be a memory.
So wait and pray each night for me
Till we meet again.

Tho' goodbye means the birth of a tear drop,
Hello means the birth of a smile.
And the smile will erase the tear blighting trace,
When we meet in the after awhile.

Smile the while you kiss me sad adieu
When the clouds roll by I'll come to you
Then the skies will seem more blue
Down in Lover's Lane, my dearie,

Wedding bells will ring so merrily
Ev'ry tear will be a memory
So wait and pray each night for me
Till we meet again.

-----------------------------------

The really sad thing about this song is that so many of the guys who sang it, didn't return home. So many, that the "The French Widow" was the subject of stand up comedians for half a century or more.

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: GUEST,Musicmic
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 01:26 AM

Thanks, Bert, I can't pronounce that "Wee doch and doris...", neither do I know what it means but I do remember hearing it. And i can't thank you enough for the verses of "Til We Meet Again".
Some of the more modern farewells seem lovely. I would like to hear them sung out loud.

                         Mike

Subject: Lyr Add: THERE'S NEVER A GOOD TIME FOR LEAVING
From: Bert
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 10:30 AM

The ch is pronounced the same as in Loch, or the double L in Welsh Llangollen, or similar to the Kh as in the Arabic Khalid. English speaking folks only use the sound when coughing up phlegm.

There was a Mudcat Radio episode where we each sang a goodbye song and I remember that Bill Sables had a really good one. If he doesn't join this thread soon I'll send him a PM.

Here's one of mine


There's Never a Good Time for Leaving

There's never a good time for leaving
There's no good time for goodbye
There's never a good time for leaving
it always makes somebody cry
There's never a good time for leaving

There's never a good time for going
Darling say you won't go
There's never a good time for going
I'll love you for ever I know
There's never a good time for going

Darling don't leave me
Oh tell me you'll stay
stay here beside me
for just one more day
There's never a good time for leaving

There's never a good time for leaving
There's no good time for goodbye
There's never a good time for leaving
it always makes somebody cry
There's never a good time for leaving

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Greg B
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 10:42 AM

'Leave Her Johnny' is traditionally used as a parting
song at various maritime music events...a shanty traditionally
used for performing the last task before departing the vessel
import, i.e. pumping the bilge one last time.

Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN FIRST WE MET (Alan Bell)
From: The Barden of England
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 06:46 PM

Alan Bell's song of parting is the one that does it for me :-

WHEN FIRST WE MET
(Alan Bell)

1. When first we met we were total strangers
We didn't know if we could be friends,
How soon we came to know each other
Now I know we will meet again

Chorus:
So here's to you and our time together
I'll share with you now a parting glass
And bid adieu with a smile and laughter
Our time apart will be short and pass

2. We talked of dreams and a good tomorrow
Of yesterday's and their dark dispairs
We've had our share of joys and sorrows
Now we part as friends who care

3. A long long road now winds before me
And fate may take me where it will
Through deep valleys and over mountains
I'll not forget, I'll remember you still


A wonderful song and it can be found here:-
@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7753
John Barden

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Joe_F
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 09:13 PM

If it's a stag affair, then "Time, Gentlemen, Time" might do.

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Celtaddict
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 10:13 PM

Okay, five tries, I give up. No blicky for me.
The full words to Allister McGillivray's "Here's to Song" are online. I have some recordings of it (Celtic Folk Live Vol I, Song for the Mira) but do not find it sung online. The line the blicky box told me to paste in is:
Here's to Song
I do not find the full words to either George Papavgeris' (El Greko's) "Friends Like These" or Rick Fielding's "When We Gather Once More" online, and would be glad to transcribe the full songs if anyone is interested. Both have clips on iTunes, to give a hint what they sound like.

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Celtaddict
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 10:15 PM

Well fry me in olive oil, it worked.

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Celtaddict
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 10:32 PM

And a 2003 thread about Jim James' "The Going Home Song" was just resurrected also.

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: GUEST,mick burke
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 10:45 PM

so now the end is near
it's time to face the final curtain

Sorry about that everybody.
Sorry for bringing this one up as well ,but here goes. Has anybody noticed the similaries between The Parting Glass and I Did My Way ?

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 10:58 PM

The faarewell shanty.

It is time to go now
Haul aawaay the anchor   etc.

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: GUEST,Musicmic
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 12:17 AM

Honest to God, Mick, I've been singing them, one after the other for ten minutes and I can't seem to find any similarity between "The Parting Glass" and "I Did It My Way", except for the farewellness of the sentiment. Now, "How Can I Keep From Singing", now, there's a song that could have used the old Sinatra touch.
And, I bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.

                     Mike

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Jim Lad
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 03:40 AM

"Leave her Johnny, Leave her"

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Tom Hamilton frae Saltcoats Scotland
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 12:10 PM

these boots were made for walking, parting glass, goodbye, fareweel goodnight auf weidersein (pardon my German) (this last one is from the sound of music, I think that's what is called.

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: GUEST,synbyn
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 12:14 PM

Lynne Heraud & Pat Turner sing the best I've heard for a long time- but best heard at a gig for full effect!

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Tom Hamilton frae Saltcoats Scotland
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 12:21 PM

leaving of Liverpool and God save the Queen, no bad for a Protestant Republican, don't worry I don't sing it either (God save the Queen).

the Queen God bless her and all who sail in her. did you know that a coutry called lichinstein (I think that's the way it's spelt) in Eruope hasd the same tune as God save the Queen

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: Chris in Portland
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 01:02 PM

Will You Sing a Chorus with Me? by Anthony John Clarke
http://www.anthonyjohnclarke.com/
Chris in Portland

Subject: Lyr Add: EPILOGUE
From: GUEST,John from Elsie`s Band
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 02:18 PM

We have a number of leaving songs and this is one of them that has much to recommend it, "Epilogue"

Another wind is calling us, another breeze is blowing.
Another tide calls for the ride
Time, time we were going

Another friend was made today, another face for knowing,
A smile , a tear, another year.
Time, time we were going.

With conversations, songs and smiles these old four walls were glowing
They`ll see next year though never fear.
time, time we were going.

The season`s come, the season`s go, on times great tide we`re flowing
So now today we cannot stay.
Time, time we were going.

We sang and made the rafters ring, we sang till night was slowing.
Now songs and fires are nearly done.
Time, time we were going.

There`s love and laughter here today with friendship good and
growing.
So farewell till we met again.
Time, time we were going

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: GUEST,John from Elsie`s band
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 02:24 PM

Error Alert!!. First line should be:-

Another wind is calling us, another breeze is blowing.

corrected - j-clone

Subject: RE: Farewell songs for the last round
From: GUEST,Jacqued
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 04:08 PM

Paul from Hull - to the same tune try 'Rolling Drunk' by The Kipper Family I think.   Gets up our leaders nose, anyway, as he likes to finish on 'Rolling Home!