Do this for me when I die. Pass the priest that Guinness and pour the rest over me head- but don’t forget the words. Do it all and be damned. The devil has all the best tunes.
God Bless Ronnie,had the privilege of meeting him and the other Dubs in 1988 at a concert in Dublin.Was sitting in their changing room,all I can say is they were gentlemen.What a concert afterwards.
Простите. Влез, наверное, не совсем туда где я в чем либо разбираюсь - просто искал другие исполнения "The Parting Glass", отличные от недавно покорившее моё сердце песня Sinéad O'Connor - О чём этот ролик? И что за Ронни?
@kostiatania Ronnie Drew, from the band the Dubliners. This is a scene in the film 'O'Donohoes Opera' filmed in 1965. Ronnie Drew and the Dubliners, in my opinion, are Irelands greatest band.
While a very popular Irish folk song, The Parting Glass is Scottish in origin. It was inspired by a lamentful poem left by Thom Armstrong in November of 1600 to his friends and family, He was sentenced to have his right hand cut off, then hung in Edinburgh, then his body gibbeted (hung on display in an iron cage) for the murder of Sir John Charmichael, the Warden of the English Middle Marsh during an Armstrong Clan raid. The Armstrongs were notorious Border Reivers (brigands) and many met their demise with the hangman's noose. The poem was originally called "Armstrong's Goodnight" and was enormously popular in Scotland and later in Ireland. It was replaced as the most popular of all Scottish ballads when Robert Burns penned "Auld Lang Syne." Wherever it is sung it is both a haunting and enchanting song.
I'm a french black man and I have nothing to do with Ireland I must admit. But God I love the tunes from its people !!! Maybe it's a past life mystery...
Of all the money that e'er I had I spent it in good company And of all the harm that ever I did Alas, it was to none but me And all I've done for want of wit To memory now I can't recall So fill to me the parting glass Good night and joy be to you all
An English highwayman robber on route in a cart to his execution when stopped outside an ale house as apparently they did to get the condemned a last drink said to the innkeeper give me a beer I’ll pay you on the way back.
Of all the money that e'er I had I spent it in good company And all the harm I've ever done Alas it was to none but me And all I've done for want of wit To mem'ry now I can't recall So fill to me the parting glass Good night and joy be to you all
I began bring drawn into Irish folk by Hozier I found it speaks to my soul in a way I can't explain. Did an ancestry test turns out I'm 25% Irish. I would love to find my roots.
🤣🤣😅 Make the gallows out of old pallets and go all out, some might say your pantomime was too dark for Christmas, but do gooders have always tried to ruin our fun.
Great stuff thanks. So, let no one mistake this as a song about emigration or whatever. While it might not be a song about being hanged -although 'all the harm that ever I did etc- it's at least about the oncoming death of an honest and self aware wastrel asserting his life as being as valuable as that of any 'great' man's. Great recovery of footage!!
That hangman's knot isn't going to help much if, as it appears from the drape of the rope, the drop is only going to be somewhere between 6 inches and a foot. Slow strangulation, poor fellow.
Just found this--is that Seamus Ennis singing after Ronnie Drew gets hanged? I know it's The Night Before Larry Got Stretched, but can't see the singer quite well enough to be sure of him. I assume this is from O'Donoghue's Opera.
Sure t'is ! Didn't know he sang with Ronnie . He sang with Clannad and the guys from planxty, Andt Irvine, Donald Lunny, Paul Brady. I' mnot sure but he might also have taken part to th Bothy Band at a time. Love the way he sings.
Johnny Moynihan of Sweeney's Men, Planxty and Dé Dannan; shown here with Dé Dannan - m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BcHa1civbs4.html
TheDeadpresident33 He means the singer singing parting glass, the late ronnie drew looks like fidel castro probably due to the beard and tall stature. Amazing man Drew was and an amazing band the dubliners were. I swear no song ever made me tear but Drew’s parting glass did, i sobbed like a child. Truelly scared of this song and I avoid mu best to listen to it in company or in public. Have a blessed day.
