For my New Years Eve wish to this lovely group of amazing history nerds, Im posting this video from Peter Hollens ( a phenomenal a capella singer who I recommend that everyone check out on his youtube channel!) of The Parting Glass as a symbolic farewell to the departing year. I have actually heard wandering mistrels sing this one in Colonial Williamsburg in the Raleigh Tavern once while people were filing in for a dance demonstration. According to wiki: The Parting Glass is a Scottish and Irish traditional song, 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 earliest known printed version was as a broadside in the 1770s and it first appeared in book form in Scots Songs by Herd. An early version is sometimes attributed to Sir Alex Boswell. The text is doubtless older than its 1770 appearance in broadside, as it was recorded in the Skene Manuscript, a collection of Scottish airs written at various dates between 1615 and 1635.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 Armstrongs Goodnight, by one of the Border Reivers executed that year for the murder in 1600 of Sir John Carmichael, Warden of the Scottish West March. I hope you all have a safe and happy New Years Eve, and may we ALL have many visits to our favorite place in the coming year! https://youtube/watch?v=3hMdoGet2A8
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 12:45:34 +0000
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