Set 2, Song 13 of 14

The Parting Glass

lead vocals: Don

Bm G D A... Bm G D A G Bm

Don’s recording with shitty drum

Don’s recording without drums

Only for the recitative intro, during “I spent it in good company”: Skip the G and D, and also replace A with D. This is kind of optional, and is how you’d hear it in the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem Carnegie Hall concert from 1963

So it looks like this just for the intro:

   Bm                     D
I spent it in good company

Here is the tab for how I play “All I’ve done for want of wit”

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|---2--2-------2---4---2------
|---4--4---4---4---5---4------
|----------5------------------
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   And all---- I've--- done,
   for want--- of---   wit
Maybe easier?
|-----------------------------
|------------------0----------
|---2--2-------2-------2------
|---4--4---4---4---5---4------
|----------5------------------
|-----------------------------
   And all---- I've--- done,
   for want--- of---   wit

Here’s the whole song

[Intro/Verse 1]
   Bm      G          D      A7
Oh all the money that e'er I spent
   Bm      G       D     A
I spent it in good company
    Bm      G         D         A7
And all the harm that e'er I've done
  Bm  G  D   A  G        Bm
Alas, it was to none but me


[Chorus 1]

    D   G    D        D    G  D
And all I've done for want of wit
   G/E    A/C    D     A7
To memory now I can't recall
   Bm     (Bm)   D       A7
So fill to me the parting glass
     Bm    G   D   A  G        Bm
Good night and joy be with you all


[Verse 2]

If I had money enough to spend
And leisure time to sit awhile
There is a fair maid in this town
That sorely has my heart beguiled


[Chorus 2]

Her rosy cheeks and ruby lips
I own she has my heart enthralled
So fill to me the parting glass
Good night and joy be with you all


[Instrumental]

Bm G D A
Bm G D A
Bm G D A
Bm  G  D   A  G        Bm


[Verse 3]

Oh all the comrades that e'er I've had
They're sorry for my going away
And all the sweethearts that e'er I've had
They’d wish me one more day to stay


[Chorus 3]

But since it falls unto my lot
That I  should rise and you should not
I'll gently rise and I'll softly call
Good night and joy be with you all


[Instrumental]

Bm G D A
Bm G D A
Bm G D A
Bm  G  D   A  G        Bm

Set 1

  1. The Boys Are Back WP
    A D , A D , A D E
  2. Drink the Night away WP
    Chorus: G C G, G D G, Verse: G D C
  3. Black Velvet Band WP
    G C A7 D7, G Em C D7 G
  4. The Night that Paddy Murphy Died WP
    A D A, A F#m D E....
  5. Father Mallory's Dance Don
    D ..... G D, C G G/F# Em D G D
  6. Nelson's Blood Don
    Dm C
  7. Fightin' Nolan WP
    mostly D G D A, "before we cross the sea": G A D
  8. Kiss Me I'm Irish WP
    G D C D, G Em C D
  9. Peggy Gordon Nick
    G D G D A
  10. Dirty Old Town WP
    G C G D Em
  11. The Irish Rover WP
    G C G G D...
  12. The Spanish Lady Don
    G Em C G C D
  13. Rattlin' Bog Adam
    D G D A
  14. Galway Girl Nick
    incorrect bridge...
  15. Caledonia Don
    A E F#m D
  16. Wild Rover WP
  17. Come My Friends and Drink with Me Don
    D G D A
  18. Drunken Sailor WP
    C#m B C#m E G#m B C#m
  19. Big Strong Man Aaron
    C G
  20. Poor Paddy Works on the Railway WP
    G & C & sometimes D
  21. The Son Never Shines Don
  22. Molly Malone WP
    G Em Am D
  23. Jack Dolan WP
    C G C F, C F CGC, C G F C, C F CGC
  24. Danny Boy Don
    D Dmaj7 D7 G Gm...
  25. New York Girls WP
    G C G D
  26. Mary Mac Adam
    E D E, G D E
  27. Road to Ruin WP
    G C G D... Em D