TheTraditional Parting Glass E A E/B B B A E/B B Of all the money that e'er I had, A man may drink and not be drunk, C#m/G# Asus2 E/B B C#m/G# Asus2 E/B B I spent it in good company. A man may fight and not be slain, B A E B B A E B And of all the harm that e’er I’ve done, A man may court a pretty girl, E G#m Asus2 C#m/G# E G#m. Asus2 C#m/G# Alas it was to none but me. And perhaps be welcomed home again, E A E/B A G#m E A E/B A G#m And all I've done for want of wit, But since it has so ought to be, Asus2 E B Asus2 E B To my mem'ry now I can't recall; A time to rise and a time to fall, Intro B A E/B B B A E B So fill to me the parting glass, Come fill to me the parting glass, C#m/G# G#m Asus2 C#m/G# C#m/G# G#m Asus2 C#m/G# Good night and joy be with you all. Good night and joy be with you all.

B A E/B B Of all the comrades that e'er I had, C#m/G# Asus2 E/B B They're sorry for my going away. B A E B And of all my sweethearts that e'er I’ve had, E G#m Asus2 C#m/G# They'd wish me one more day to stay. ENDIS PIECE E A E/B A G#m B E Asus2 G#m B But since it falls unto my lot, So fill to me the parting glass, Asus2 E B E Asus2 A B That I should rise and you should not, And drink a health what ere befalls. B A E/B B A E B I gently rise and softly call, I gently rise and softly call, C#m/G# G#m Asus2 C#m/G# C#m/G# G#m Asus2 E Good night and joy be with you all. Good night and joy be with you all.

!1 History “The Parting Glass" is a Scottish and Irish traditional , often sung at the end of a gathering of friends. It was allegedly the most popular parting song sung in Scotland before Robert Burns wrote “Auld Lang Syne”. The song is also hugely popular in Ireland and amongst Irish communities. The song Restless Farewell written by and featured on The Time They Are a-Changin’ from 1964 is heavily based on The Parting Glass. Wikipedia It was known at least as early as 1605, when a portion of the first stanza was written in a farewell letter, as a poem now known as "Armstrong's Goodnight", by one of the Boarder Reivers executed that year for the murder in 1600 of Sir John Carmichael, Warden of the Scottish West March.

from englandsnortheast.co.uk/ Border-Reivers-Protecting-Langholm-Castle from wwwborderreiverstories-neblessclem.blogspot.com George MacDonald Fraser. (1995.) Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers, Harper Collins, London, pp. 140–143.

See a tender yet stirring presentation of the Parting Glass by the UCD Choral Scholars recorded and videoed on Sunday 7th April 2013 in Memorial Hall, University College Dublin, Ireland. Find it at https://youtu.be/eisW0skJ9fU

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