Set 1, Song 16 of 23

The Parting Glass

lead vocals: Don

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

Don: Now we’d like to sing one that we just think is pretty. (Better ad lib)

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?
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|------------------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