Favorite Finishing Off Tune

Subject: Favorite Finishing Off Tune
From: Sam Pirt
Date: 21 Mar 99 - 06:33 PM

We've had peoples favorite finishing off song so I thought it would be good for us musicians to have a crack at it as well.

My favorite finishing off tune is one called 'Masons Apron' or 'Trip to Winsor'(both Irish, both sound best in A and both are reels!!!)

They are such happy tunes that just make you get up and dance. And they just seem always to reach a frenzie by the end GREAT!!

What are your favorite finishing off tunes?

Bye, Sam

Subject: RE: Favorite Finishing Off Tune
From: Barbara
Date: 21 Mar 99 - 06:55 PM

We ended with a combination of singing and playing Whiskey Before Breakfast.
And I'd post some of the words for you, but I just checked on something at that blasted HamsterDance page and I can't get the silly tune out of my head! Truly.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Favorite Finishing Off Tune
From: skarpi Iceland
Date: 21 Mar 99 - 07:16 PM

Well we finish off with Farewell to Nova Scotia and sometime Galway Bay.

Barbara is the song whiskey before breakfast a fast or a slow one?

Well I have to go now, it is midnight in Iceland and I think I go to bed. sl n go foil .skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: Favorite Finishing Off Tune
From: Susan A-R
Date: 21 Mar 99 - 08:05 PM

Lord preserve us and protect us! We've been drinkin' whisky for (or is it before?) breakfast

Those are the only words I've heard. we pair it up with Stan Rogers "Athens Queen" which works well.

There's the obvious slow stuff: Ashokan's Farewell, Lord Injuquin (sp?)

Subject: RE: Favorite Finishing Off Tune
From: dwditty
Date: 22 Mar 99 - 06:10 AM

God Bless The Child

Subject: RE: Favorite Finishing Off Tune
From: Sam Pirt
Date: 22 Mar 99 - 06:19 AM

By the way I posted this thread as Sam Pirt now I'm known as Sam P.

I think the Ashloken farwell is an excellent choice!

Subject: RE: Favorite Finishing Off Tune
From: Pete Peterson
Date: 22 Mar 99 - 01:31 PM

Our favorite finishing song/tune is either

Carter Family's You've been a friend to me

or Stephen Foster's Hard Times, Come Again no More