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17 Mar 14 - 05:48 PM (#3610397) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST,Ian Gill John O'Dreams by Bill Caddick takes some beating. |
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17 Mar 14 - 06:11 PM (#3610405) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST,gillymor Richard Thompson's "Farewell, Farewell" from Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief. Covered by many including a great one by Danu. Also a couple of traditional songs "Wagoner's Lad" and "500 Miles". There's a passle of them. Who's to say which one is the best? |
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17 Mar 14 - 06:39 PM (#3610413) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Keith A of Hertford Parting Glass . |
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17 Mar 14 - 06:52 PM (#3610418) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Bert Not a folk song but was written upon leaving The Getaway one year. There's never a good time for leaving |
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17 Mar 14 - 07:45 PM (#3610432) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Rapparee Parting Glass. |
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17 Mar 14 - 09:14 PM (#3610466) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST,Padre sans cookies "The Farewell Chantey" (It is Time to Go Now) was the one the Boarding Party always used. |
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17 Mar 14 - 09:36 PM (#3610472) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST,Malcolm Storey I suppose it all depends on the sort of parting, temporary or permanent. The Parting Glass or Holmfirth Anthem would do for me on either occasion but for the latter my father had requested and got Abide With Me, a great favourite at sporting occasions as well as funerals. You pays your money and you takes your choice! |
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17 Mar 14 - 11:37 PM (#3610483) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Joe Offer My current favorites are Alan Bell's So Here's To You and Dave Webber's Parting Song. |
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17 Mar 14 - 11:42 PM (#3610484) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: PHJim Till We Meet Again |
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18 Mar 14 - 12:03 AM (#3610485) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST,Gerry Don't Think Twice, It's All Right For Lovin' Me Changes That's No Way To Say Goodbye Four Strong Winds |
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18 Mar 14 - 12:12 AM (#3610486) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST How about this one from Derek Brimstone] "We Both Had A Very Good Time" Cheers Bugsy |
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18 Mar 14 - 12:18 AM (#3610487) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Jason Xion Wang Someone had mentioned "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", always one of my favorites. And "Farewell Party" by Phil Ochs... Or is it Bob Gibson? |
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18 Mar 14 - 01:36 AM (#3610493) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: MGM·Lion The Leaving of Liverpool ~M~ |
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18 Mar 14 - 03:28 AM (#3610498) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Keith A of Hertford Love Farewell. |
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18 Mar 14 - 08:59 AM (#3610542) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST,Fred McCormick I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You. |
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18 Mar 14 - 10:52 AM (#3610570) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST,PeterC What about 'Ashokan Farewell' by Jay Ungar? Great tune! |
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18 Mar 14 - 11:30 AM (#3610580) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST,PeterC And Herr Roloff's Farewell by James Scott Skinner - another great tune! |
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18 Mar 14 - 12:08 PM (#3610600) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Bill D Tak a Dram(before you go) here by Bob Zentz |
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18 Mar 14 - 12:15 PM (#3610605) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Bill D and again, from Bob Zentz.. how to make parting into memories... and anticipation. Sweet Song from Yesterday |
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18 Mar 14 - 01:50 PM (#3610643) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST,Black belt caterpillar wrestler As "Hen's teeth" we used to finish the evening with one of Pete Macnab's, "Time call this night a day". |
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18 Mar 14 - 03:41 PM (#3610680) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: BrooklynJay Circle by Harry Chapin. Jay |
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18 Mar 14 - 05:48 PM (#3610703) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST So long, it's been good to know you... Leave Her, Johnny (good for a band, one leaves each verse) Adieu to old England |
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18 Mar 14 - 06:27 PM (#3610710) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: TheSnail Keep you in peace |
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18 Mar 14 - 06:44 PM (#3610714) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: dick greenhaus I Bid You Goodnight |
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18 Mar 14 - 09:29 PM (#3610740) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST,Tony Traveling Day Poem by Jack Aldridge, set to music by Kate Wolf (last song on Looking Back At You) It's a travelin' day, you know. Somehow they just don't start off slow. I must be up again and on my way. The leavin' don't come easy. Long good-byes just don't please me, when I know that I'll be back some day. But I'd like to give you one last fond farewell before I go to thank you for all we shared, and I'd like to have you know this time has been a pleasure, a jewel I'll always treasure across the hours and miles of my way. |
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19 Mar 14 - 02:04 AM (#3610777) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: PHJim So Long, It's Been Good To Know You |
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19 Mar 14 - 02:12 AM (#3610778) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: PHJim Bye Bye Love Bye Bye Blackbird John Hartford's Bye Bye |
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19 Mar 14 - 03:15 AM (#3610779) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Keith A of Hertford This could be a long thread. Shallow Brown. Bold Riley. |
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19 Mar 14 - 09:04 AM (#3610838) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST,henryp Closing Time by Lyle Lovett The night's all that's left behind You take your part and I'll take mine And go on home It's closing time |
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19 Mar 14 - 09:46 AM (#3610855) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: The Sandman a vale of tranquility as the curtain comes down. the starsbrightly greet us as the silence surrounds each song that we sang fond memory records like the stars in the night skyall of one accord. 2. the hours quickly passing now the fire gets low the embers still glowing we stir up the coals so we sang that last song each chorus a bond in harmony united all singing one song 3. the fiddlercast aspellsas she bowed away time we drank down the music far stronger than wine but the memories live on from the chalice of song of this night spent together all singning one song. 4. united together combining as one let us part in agreement through the power of song all people in peace,our voices concorde like the stars in the night sky all of one accord Chorus, Farewell my friends once more as the night gets spent and our voices blend farewell my friends once more copyright dick miles, available from my website |
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19 Mar 14 - 01:43 PM (#3610925) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST, DrWord Happy trails to you by Dale Evans. This side of the pond, at any rate. Happy trails dennis |
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19 Mar 14 - 01:51 PM (#3610929) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST,Anne Neilson For Bill D, who posted a link to Bob Zentz's version of 'Tak a Dram' -- YouTube says this is a traditional song, but it was actually written (in the 1970's, if I remember rightly) by Ian Sinclair. Ian is Glaswegian by birth, but moved to Thurso in Caithness, Scotland, to work in the Dounreay reactor. A fine fiddler, he formed the folk group Mirk with his wife Margie as singer and Ray Crompton on guitar and mandolin. This is one of his most popular songs and the line "Button up and aye be cheery" makes a lot more sense in the kind of temperatures found in the north of Scotland than in the balmy surroundings where Bob Z's performance was filmed! So, Bill D, if you have a YouTube account, would you mind posting an accreditation of Ian's authorship as it's always nice to acknowledge a creator? BUT, to get back to the original question, my own favourite is to hear Sheila Stewart - and no-one else - sing 'The Parting Glass', and I can visualise all her lovely, expansive gestures as she draws the audience in until every voice is raised in a recognition of the fragility of relationships if they're not cherished -- "For we may, and might never, all meet here again.". |
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19 Mar 14 - 01:54 PM (#3610931) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Mr Happy What's the criterion for deciding which is the best one? |
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19 Mar 14 - 07:02 PM (#3611004) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST,DTM A song by the late great Davy Steele sung by his son at Steele the Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xudsYedOFFE If the link doesn't work cut and paste this ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xudsYedOFFE) |
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19 Mar 14 - 07:11 PM (#3611009) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Bert Goodnight Irene. |
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19 Mar 14 - 07:55 PM (#3611016) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Bugsy Good one Bert. I remember finishing a night at a local folk club with "Irene" and inviting the audience up to join in. After about 8 choruses we had around 40 people up on stage and 2 sitting in the audience. So all in all it worked rather well. Cheers Bugsy |
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19 Mar 14 - 10:39 PM (#3611047) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Bert Yes Bugsy, way back in the Fifties just about every singalong finished with Irene. And of course, depending upon the situation, there is always Eliot Kenin's great song "Fuck off and die" |
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19 Mar 14 - 10:45 PM (#3611048) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Bert Here 'tiz |
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20 Mar 14 - 03:09 AM (#3611057) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST,henryp The Goodnight Song [Jim Boyes] Sung by Blue Murder with Jim Boyes singing lead on their album No One Stands Alone. 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 |
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20 Mar 14 - 04:43 AM (#3611068) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST,Iain For my money farewell, farewell by Richard Thompson has to be right up in the lead. The purists can argue if it is a folk song or in the folk song idiom. |
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20 Mar 14 - 04:50 AM (#3611070) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST,LynnH John Tams "Pulling down song"? Probably a bit too much fairground argot in it though. |
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20 Mar 14 - 07:56 AM (#3611118) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GRex Si Khan's Here Is My Home |
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20 Mar 14 - 09:28 AM (#3611136) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST,Rogd Mary Asquith's Closing Time. |
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20 Mar 14 - 02:06 PM (#3611231) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Elmore Rolling Home by John Tams. |
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20 Mar 14 - 02:11 PM (#3611234) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Elmore For All the Good People written by Ken Hicks, sung by Bob Zentz (or the late Fred Holstein) |
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20 Mar 14 - 05:34 PM (#3611283) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Georgiansilver The Parting Glass. The High Kings. Be sure to listen to this one all the way through... it keeps getting better!, |
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20 Mar 14 - 07:39 PM (#3611312) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Bugsy "We'll Stand By The Shore" Bugsy |
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20 Mar 14 - 08:04 PM (#3611319) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST Goodbyeee, don't cryeee, wipe tear, baby dear from your eyeee... |
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20 Mar 14 - 08:10 PM (#3611322) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: Bert Tom Paxton's - The Honor of Your Company |
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20 Mar 14 - 09:02 PM (#3611332) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The best farewell folk song please From: GUEST So long it's been good to know ya as performed by The Weavers. |