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Scottish traditional song

"The Parting Drinking glass" is a Scottish traditional song, often sung at the end of a gathering of friends.^{[1] [2] [iii] [4] [v] [6]} Information technology has also long been sung in Ireland, enjoying considerable popularity to this day and strongly influencing the manner in which information technology is oft at present sung.^{[iii] [4]} It was purportedly the most popular parting song sung in Scotland before Robert Burns wrote "Auld Lang Syne".^{[one] [6]}

History [edit]

Referent [edit]

Scottish silver stirrup cups, Hallmarked Edinburgh, 1917

The "parting glass", or "stirrup loving cup", was the final hospitality offered to a parting invitee. In one case they had mounted, they were presented one final drink to fortify them for their travels. The custom was practised in several continental countries.^[seven]

Text [edit]

The earliest known printed version was as a broadside in the 1770s and it first appeared in volume form in Ancient and Mod Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc. by Herd.^[one] An early version is sometimes attributed to Sir Alex Boswell. The text is doubtless older than its 1770 appearance in broadside, as information technology was recorded in the Skene Manuscript, a drove of Scottish airs written at various dates betwixt 1615 and 1635.^[8] It was known at to the lowest degree every bit early on every bit 1605, when a portion of the first stanza was written in a farewell alphabetic character, every bit a poem now known as "Armstrong's Goodnight", by one of the Border Reivers executed that year for the murder in 1600 of Sir John Carmichael, Warden of the Scottish Due west March.^[9]

Exact lyrics vary betwixt arrangements, but they include well-nigh, if not all, of the post-obit stanzas appearing in unlike orders:^{[ citation needed ] [10] [11]}

Of all the coin that eastward'er I had
I spent it in good company
And all the damage I've always done
Alas it was to none merely me
And all I've done for want of wit
To mem'ry now I tin't recall
So fill to me the parting drinking glass
Practiced night and joy be to you all

And then fill to me the departing glass
And potable a health whate'er befall,
And gently ascent and softly telephone call
Expert night and joy exist to you all

Of all the comrades that e'er I had
They're sorry for my going away
And all the sweethearts that always I had
They'd wish me 1 more than day to stay
Only since it falls unto my lot
That I should rise and you should not
I gently rising and softly call
Practiced night and joy be to you all

If I had money enough to spend
And leisure fourth dimension to sit awhile
There is a off-white maid in this boondocks
That sorely has my heart beguiled.
Her rosy cheeks and ruby-red lips
I own she has my heart in thrall
Then fill to me the parting drinking glass
Expert dark and joy be with you all.

A man may drink and not exist drunk
A man may fight and non be slain
A man may courtroom a pretty daughter
And mayhap exist welcomed back again
But since it has so ought to exist
By a time to ascent and a time to fall
Come up fill to me the parting glass
Skilful nighttime and joy exist with you all
Practiced night and joy exist with you all

(The final poetry is the first verse in the Scots version.)

Tune [edit]

The earliest known advent of the tune today associated with this text is equally a fiddle melody called "The Peacock", included in James Aird's A Selection of Scots, English, Irish and Foreign Arrogance in 1782.^{[12] [13] [14]}

Robert Burns referred to the air in 1786 as "Adept nighttime, and joy be wi' ye a'." when using it to accompany his Masonic lyric "The Farewell. To the brethren of St. James's Lodge, Tarbolton".^{[15] [16]}

In 1800–1802, the song was incorrectly attributed to Joseph Haydn by Sigismund von Neukomm (1778-1858), who entered it in the Hoboken catalogue as "Skillful dark and joy be wi' ye. Hob XXXIa 254. Mi mineur",^[17] which text has been wrongly attributed to Sir Alexander Boswell (1775-1822).

Patrick Weston Joyce, in his Former Irish gaelic Folk Music and Songs (1909), gives the tune with a different text nether the name "Sweet Cootehill Boondocks," noting, "The air seems to have been used indeed as a full general bye tune, then that—from the words of another vocal of the same class—it is often called 'Skillful night and joy exist with you all.'"^[18] The celebrated Irish folk song collector Colm Ó Lochlainn has taken note of this identity of melodies between "The Departing Glass" and "Sweet Cootehill Town".^[19] "Sweet Cootehill Town" is another traditional farewell song, this time involving a man leaving Ireland to become to America.

The tune appeared, with sacred lyrics, in 19th century American tunebooks. "Shouting Hymn" in Jeremiah Ingalls's Christian Harmony (1805) is a related tune.^[20] The tune accomplished wider currency amongst shape note singers with its publication, associated with a text first known in the 1814 Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs, "Come Now Ye Lovely Social Band", in William Walker's Southern Harmony (1835), and in The Sacred Harp (1844).^{[21] [22]} This class of the song is still widely sung by Sacred Harp singers under the title "Clamanda".

Irish and Northward American influence [edit]

Dr Lori Watson, a lecturer in Scottish Ethnology at the University of Edinburgh states that it's difficult to fully trace the origins of many traditional songs:^[4]

Although information technology currently seems that Scotland has show of the earliest published melody and several cute song variants, the popular Parting Glass currently in circulation has potent Irish and North American influences to thank.

In regard to a modernistic version by Irish musician Hozier, Scottish singer-songwriter Karine Polwart notes:^[iv]

It really knocked my socks off. He clearly comes from a identify where he understands his roots, singing in that really old ornamented Irish way. This would be one mark against the Scots claiming information technology, the tune of it is very similar a lot of Irish traditional tunes and the fashion they sing it is with much more flourish and ornamentation, becoming a fluttering kind of melody. I discover that actually moving – my favourite versions are almost all by Irish singers.

Modernistic adaptations [edit]

"The Departing Glass" was re-introduced to mid-20th century audiences past the recordings and performances of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.^[23] Their rendition featured a solo vocal by youngest blood brother Liam and first appeared on their 1959 Tradition Records LP Come up Fill Your Drinking glass with Us as well as on a number of subsequent recordings, including the group's high-charting live performance anthology, In Person at Carnegie Hall.^[24] The rendition by the Clancys and Makem has been described as "past all accounts... the most influential" of the many recorded versions.^[13]

The song "Restless Good day", written past Bob Dylan and featured on The Times They Are a-Changin' from 1964, uses the tune of the nineteenth century versions of "The Departing Glass" with Dylan's original lyrics. Dylan had learned the tune from the singing of the Clancys and Makem.^[13]

In 1998, the traditional words were set up to a new, dissimilar melody (reminiscent of Mo Ghile Mear, some other Irish traditional song) past Irish gaelic composer Shaun Davey. In 2002, he orchestrated this version for orchestra, choir, pipes, fiddle, and percussion to commemorate the opening of the Helix Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland. His version appears in the picture show Waking Ned Devine.

Film, TV and other media appearances [edit]

The vocal features prominently at the stop of the movie Waking Ned Devine when friends of the deceased title grapheme share a toast to him after his decease.

Player Pierce Brosnan performed a version of this song in the 2002 movie Evelyn.

Actresses Emily Kinney and Lauren Cohan performed a rendition of this song in the season 3 premiere episode "Seed" of The Walking Expressionless. It also appears on the soundtrack, The Walking Dead: Original Soundtrack – Vol. 1.

It was sung by Anne Attractive (played by Sarah Greene) at the catastrophe of the video game Assassin's Creed Iv: Black Flag.

It was sung by The Wailin' Jennys in the motion picture Wildlike.

It was sung in the Idiot box series Cranford by Joe McFadden in 2007.

At the request of Margaret Atwood, to stop her guest-edited edition of BBC Radio 4's Today programme with the song, a version past vocalizer Karine Polwart and pianist Dave Milligan was commissioned.^[5]

Notable recordings [edit]

Twelvemonth	Artist	Release	Notes
1959	The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem	Come up Fill Your Glass with United states
1968	The Dubliners	Drinkin' and Courtin'
1998	Liam O'Maonlai and The Voice Squad		Recording with an original melody by Shaun Davey for the closing titles of the film Waking Ned Devine
2004	The Wailin' Jennys	40 Days	A cappella
2012	Emily Kinney and Lauren Cohan	The Walking Dead: Original Soundtrack – Vol. 1	Recorded for The Walking Expressionless – Flavor 3, Episode one[25]
2013	Sarah Greene	Assassinator'south Creed Four: Black Flag	Sung by Anne Attractive (played by Sarah Greene) during the game'south end credits.[26]
2020	Hozier	The Parting Glass (Live from the Belatedly Late Show) - Unmarried	Performed and recorded on the Belatedly Late Prove in honour of those who died from COVID-xix in March 2020, with gain going to ISPCC.[27]

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c} "The Parting Glass". Contemplator.com. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
2. ^ "The departing Glass was popular in Ireland and Scotland". 14 June 2013.
3. ^ ^{a b} Hanberry, Gerard (24 April 2019). "The Parting Glass". RTÉ.
4. ^ ^{a b c d} Crae, Ross. "The Departing Drinking glass: Singer Karine Polwart on an enduring anthem of loss and hope afterwards recording new version for Margaret Atwood".
5. ^ ^{a b} "Best of Today - Margaret Atwood'south Today programme - BBC Sounds". 50:27 minutes in.
6. ^ ^{a b} "BBC Radio 4 - Soul Music, The Parting Glass". BBC.
7. ^ Levett Hanson (1811). Miscellaneous compositions in poetry / illustrated past occasional prefatory specific , and copious explanatory notes. Copenhagen: J. F. Schultz. hdl:2027/njp.32101067634202.
8. ^ George Grove and John Alexander Fuller-Maitland. (1908.) Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Macmillan Company, p. 479.
9. ^ George MacDonald Fraser. (1995.) Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers, Harper Collins, London, pp. 140–143.
10. ^ "The Parting Glass Lyrics". www.lyrics.com . Retrieved xi June 2017.
11. ^ "Digital Tradition - Parting Glass Lyrics and Chords". The Mudcat Buffet . Retrieved two March 2020.
12. ^ James Aird (1782). A Option of Scots, English, Irish gaelic and Strange Airs. Vol. 2. p. 6. OCLC 43221159.
13. ^ ^{a b c} Kloss, Jürgen (3 March 2012). "Some Notes On The History Of "The Parting Glass"". Just Another Tune: Songs and Their History . Retrieved xx March 2019.
14. ^ Aird 1782 at IMSLP, p. 6.
15. ^ Robert Burns (1786). Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. Kilmarnock: J. Wilson. p. 228. hdl:2027/uc1.31175019497166.
16. ^ The Songs of Robert Burns : with music (Centenary ed.). Glasgow: D. Jack. 1859. p. x. hdl:2027/inu.39000005552505.
17. ^ "[Good night and joy be wi' ye. Hob XXXIa 254. Mi mineur] anglais". Catalogue Général. bnf.fr.
18. ^ "Old Irish gaelic folk music and songs : a collection of 842 Irish arrogance and songs, hitherto unpublished". London : Longmans, Dark-green. 2 May 1909 – via Internet Archive.
19. ^ O Lochlainn, Colm. Irish Street Ballads, Pan, 1978, p. 225
20. ^ "Shouting Hymn". 28 March 2012. Archived from the original on 28 March 2012.
21. ^ "Prof. Warren Steel'due south page".
22. ^ ""Clamanda" in The Sacred Harp (1991 revision)".
23. ^ Biege, Bernd (3 March 2019). "The Parting Drinking glass". Tripsavvy.com . Retrieved 20 March 2019.
24. ^ "Elevation LP's". Billboard. 75 (51): x. 21 December 1963.
25. ^ "'The Walking Dead' Sisters Get Mournful on 'The Parting Glass' – Premiere". Rolling Stone. 13 October 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
26. ^ "Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag - 'Parting Glass' Ending Song". Archived from the original on 19 December 2021.
27. ^ "Andrew Hozier Byrne on Instagram: "Happy to denote the functioning of the Parting Glass from @latelaterte will be out this Friday on all platforms with all gain going…"". Instagram. Archived from the original on 24 December 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2020.

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