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19 Nov 14 - 05:10 PM (#3678452) Subject: Parting songs From: GUEST,mollymal Apologies if this thread already exists but I couldn't find it if it does. What are your favourite songs for rounding off a good session - obvious ones included because they're not obvoous to all ? |
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19 Nov 14 - 05:17 PM (#3678456) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Steve Gardham Various 'Rolling Home' songs. 'Wild Mountain Thyme', 'Now is the Hour'. 'Merrily we roll along/Goodnight Ladies'. I seem to remember there is a thread somewhere that covers this. |
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19 Nov 14 - 05:43 PM (#3678467) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,mollymal ta for those.Wild mountain thyme is very popular as a last song but I often wonder why because it doesn't really seem to be about leaving our going home. Come to think of it Ive never really understood why the chorus keeps asking her if she"ll go?! |
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19 Nov 14 - 05:48 PM (#3678468) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Steve Gardham It's just a good song that seems to have become a standard for rounding off an evening/festival. Plenty of audience participation/harmonies etc. Will you go with us to the mountains to pluck the heather? |
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19 Nov 14 - 06:08 PM (#3678476) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: RobbieWilson It's because when he got back to Ireland from Glasgow Jimmy McPeake couldn't remember the words to Braes O' Balquidder and made up some of his own Incidentally here is a link old thread( one of many) |
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19 Nov 14 - 06:40 PM (#3678488) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST, topsie A certain (no longer current) morris side would end their Sunday night sessions with a singularly depressing rendering of 'On a Monday Morning': ON A MONDAY MORNING (Cyril Tawny) Too soon to be out of me bed, Too soon to be back to this bus queue caper, Fumbling for change for me picture paper, On a Monday morning. Oh, where has the weekend gone? Oh, where are the wine and the beer I tasted? Gone the same way as the pay I wasted, On a Monday morning. If only the birds were booze, If only the sun was a party giver, If I could just give someone else me liver, On a Monday morning. My lover she lies asleep, My lover is warm, and her heart is mellow, I'd give the whole world just to share her pillow, On a Monday morning. |
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19 Nov 14 - 07:04 PM (#3678499) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Dennis the Elder Parting glass, I like George Donaldsons version |
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19 Nov 14 - 07:11 PM (#3678503) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Leadfingers Show me the Way to Go Home Straight , then 'posh' (Indicate the way etc) , then Gibberish ( Go me the way to show home etc) |
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20 Nov 14 - 02:05 AM (#3678564) Subject: ADD: Parting Friends (Sacred Harp) From: Joe Offer One of the nicest Sacred Harp parting songs is this: PARTING FRIENDS Farewell, my friends, I'm bound for Canaan, I'm trav'ling through the wilderness; Your company has been delightful, You, who doth leave my mind distressed.* I go away, behind to leave you, Perhaps never to meet again, But if we never have the pleasure, I hope we'll meet on Canaan's land. (*alt: You do not leave my mind distressed) 267 in the 1991 Sacred Harp book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIWR5nEXMUI |
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20 Nov 14 - 03:13 AM (#3678569) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Dave Hanson The traditional Irish song ' The Parting Glass ' is top of my list. Dave H |
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20 Nov 14 - 03:40 AM (#3678574) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,mollymal thanks. This is great.and ta for titbits about mountain thyme.Ilove parting glass as long as it's not turned into a hymn.Cyril Tawney's song looks promising. |
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20 Nov 14 - 03:40 AM (#3678575) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,Raggytash For me there's two 1) The Farewell Shanty and 2) Bide a while by Tom Yates |
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20 Nov 14 - 04:20 AM (#3678588) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Herga Kitty Dave Webber's Parting Song. Kitty |
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20 Nov 14 - 12:37 PM (#3678702) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Vixen Goodnight Irene... Happy Trails To You... One I call Drink Up and Go Home--"Don't tell me your troubles / got enough of my own / be thankful you're livin' / drink up and go home" Just a few I've heard lately... |
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20 Nov 14 - 06:20 PM (#3678776) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Tug the Cox Barley Mow is a great finisher, especially if sufficient ale has been quaffed |
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20 Nov 14 - 08:28 PM (#3678800) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Joe_F Meetings of the Boston Area Chantey and Maritime Singers always end with A Seaman's Hymn by A. L. Lloyd. Will Ye No Come Back Again is (I understand) a popular parting song among Scottish singers. |
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21 Nov 14 - 09:19 AM (#3678924) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,John from Kemsing Here` a beautiful "parting song". The words and music of John Wallace. https://soundcloud.com/johnhhills/epilogue |
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21 Nov 14 - 05:55 PM (#3679078) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: topical tom My favourite of this genre is "The Parting Glass", I believe a scottish song? Very moving. |
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21 Nov 14 - 11:22 PM (#3679117) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Elmore "River" by Bill Staines is his parting song, followed these days by "And I Bid You Goodnight", his encore. Both are excellent parting songs. |
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24 Sep 25 - 08:53 PM (#4229179) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,Geoff Keyes How about Last Call by Dave Van Ronk |
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25 Sep 25 - 11:12 AM (#4229216) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,Jack Campin "Happy we've been a' thegither", Scots song from the Borders made popular by Willie Scott. |
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25 Sep 25 - 03:27 PM (#4229230) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,PHJim - TILL WE MEET AGAIN - Richard A. Whiting & Raymond B. Egan 1918 - WE'LL MEET AGAIN - Ross Parker & Hughie Charles 1939 - HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU - Dale Evans 1951 - THE PARTING GLASS - P.D. - RESTLESS FAREWELL - Bob Dylan's alteration of PARTING GLASS - I BID YOU GOODNIGHT - P.D. - GOODNIGHT IRENE (or IRENE GOODNIGHT) - Huddie Ledbetter 1933 - THE BONNIE BANKS OF LOCH LOMOND - P.D. |
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25 Sep 25 - 08:24 PM (#4229247) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GerryM The mentions of "Goodnight, Irene" have triggered flashbacks to junior high school dances where the teacher in charge always played that for the last dance. I find that "I Hold Your Hand in Mine" gets people moving toward the exits quite reliably. |
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26 Sep 25 - 05:33 AM (#4229259) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Georgiansilver I often sung 'The Parting Glass' at end of evening. |
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26 Sep 25 - 05:47 AM (#4229260) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: Georgiansilver https://youtu.be/3xz9z6Qfm90?si=hAMfs_PqtkWUqWFx Recorded about a year before my major stroke. |
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26 Sep 25 - 06:13 AM (#4229261) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,gillymor Quite awhile back I participated in a monthly Bluegrass jam and we'd finish up with with a pair of young ladies singing Hazel Dicken's Won't you Come and Sing For Me? and everyone would join in on the chorus, even the banjo players. |
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26 Sep 25 - 07:32 AM (#4229262) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,saulgoldie Just realized that I have a few adds. "Sing Me a Song" done by The Mill Run Dulcimer Band "Damn the Man That Dares to Let My Farewell Party Die" John Denver "While I'm Here" Phil Ochs "Leaving on a Jet Plane." sung by Peter, Paul, and Mary "Last Thing On My Mind" Tom Paxton "Early Morning Rain" Gordon Lightfoot. Coupla these may be a bit of a stretch. But they have been sung at various events I have been at over the years. Thanks to all for the others. I had to go back and listen to "Last Call." And "I Hold Your Hand in Mine" is a great reminder. Saul |
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29 Sep 25 - 06:02 AM (#4229381) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,johnmc "Until we meet again" by Dougie Maclean. |
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29 Sep 25 - 06:50 AM (#4229400) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,Tom Patterson "Keep You In Peace" by Sarah Morgan. |
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30 Sep 25 - 02:09 AM (#4229440) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,Sean O'Shea So pass the cup around, brave lads, If you've to steal or borrow. For perhaps we may not meet again tomorrow. The last verse of my favourite traditional parting song FOR PERHAPS WE MAY NOT MEET AGAIN TOMORROW. Chorus;For perhaps we may not, for perhaps we may not, For perhaps we may not meet again tomorrow. |
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30 Sep 25 - 04:32 AM (#4229441) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST A very old song; from before c590BC (or BCE - Before Church of England as it's called these days). It commemorates the departure of the great Athenian lawmaker after he proclaimed the city's first code of laws, it's said so that he couldn't be persuaded to repeal them. Solon, it's been good to know ya... |
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01 Oct 25 - 03:23 AM (#4229485) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,Tunesmith Jim James, UK blues/ folk singer/ musician/ songwriter wrote a wonderful piece called "( The Time for ) The Going Home Song" . It's even been recorded in Polish! Jim, unfortunately, died September 2025. |
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02 Oct 25 - 03:23 PM (#4229561) Subject: RE: Parting songs From: GUEST,PHJim BYE BYE from John Hartford's Morning Bugle LP |