Jun 26

Departing Song

Campbell, Bridgegate Music
Verse one is based on ‘Armstrong’s Goodnight’ printed 1770. Armstrong was a border reiver executed in 1605 for the murder of the Warden of Scottish March. These words were the forerunner to the famous traditional song ‘The Parting Glass’. Verse two is based on an 18th century Glasgow Broadside, and we made up all the rest and the music !


‘So here’s good health and wealth to thee, wherever you may be, and a toast to Caledonia [Scotland], and friends across the seas’.

 

Dedicated to all the folk we met along the way on this wonderful musical journey including all in Tuscan hill town ‘Barga’, the most Scottish town in Italy and our home from home.

 

F 
This is  
C7 
our 
 
de
Bb 
par–
Gm 
ting 
 
 
F 
song, we can no  
C7 
longer 
 
 
F 
stay
 
For there’s  
F 
not a  
C7 
friend or  
Bb 
foe 
 
 
Gm 
of 
 
 
F 
ours, but  
F 
wishes 
 
 
C7 
we were  
F 
away 
 
 
Bb 
 
F 
 
What
Bb 
we have done through  
Dm 
lack 
 
 
Am 
of 
 
 
Dm 
wit, we  
C7 
never can re
F7 
ca–
C7 
ll
 
We  
F 
hope your  
C7 
all our  
Bb 
friends 
 
 
Gm 
this 
 
 
F 
night, good  
F 
night and  
C7 
joy to you  
F 
all


 
So  
Bb 
here’s good health and  
Dm 
wealth 
 
 
Am 
to 
 
 
Dm 
thee, 
 
wher
C7 
ever you may  
F 
be 
 
 
C7 
 
And a  
F 
toast to  
C7 
Cale—
Bb 
don—
Gm 
i—
F 
a, and  
F 
friends 
 
 
C7 
across the  
F 
seas

 

 

So let us hope the future, as the past has been will be

We’ll share with you your sorrows and your your joys with me

Like leaves that fall around us, in autumn’s gentle rain

We can speak of friendship, that time will never change

 

 

So here’s good health and wealth to thee, wherever you may be
And a toast to Caledonia, and friends across the sea


And a toast to Caledonia, and friends across the sea

 

 

 

 

 

  Jun 26, 2014