"Shouting Hymn" in Jeremiah Ingalls's Christian Harmony (1805) is a related tune. The tune appeared, with sacred lyrics, in 19th century American tunebooks. "Sweet Cootehill Town" is another traditional farewell song, this time involving a man leaving Ireland to go to America. Patrick Weston Joyce, in his Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909), gives the tune with a different text under the name "Sweet Cootehill Town," noting, "The air seems to have been used indeed as a general farewell tune, so that-from the words of another song of the same class-it is often called 'Good night and joy be with you all.'" The celebrated Irish folk song collector Colm Ó Lochlainn has taken note of this identity of melodies between "The Parting Glass" and "Sweet Cootehill Town". Mi mineur", which text has been wrongly attributed to Sir Alexander Boswell (1775-1822).
In 1800–1802, the song was incorrectly attributed to Joseph Haydn by Sigismund von Neukomm (1778-1858), who entered it in the Hoboken catalogue as "Good night and joy be wi' ye. Robert Burns referred to the air in 1786 as "Good night, and joy be wi' ye a'." when using it to accompany his Masonic lyric "The Farewell. The earliest known appearance of the tune today associated with this text is as a fiddle tune called "The Peacock", included in James Aird's A Selection of Scots, English, Irish and Foreign Airs in 1782. (The final verse is the first verse in the Scots version.) Įxact lyrics vary between arrangements, but they include most, if not all, of the following stanzas appearing in different orders: 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 "Armstrong's 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. 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 16.
An early version is sometimes attributed to Sir Alex Boswell. The earliest known printed version was as a broadside in the 1770s and it first appeared in book form in Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc. The custom was practised in several continental countries. Once they had mounted, they were presented one final drink to fortify them for their travels. The "parting glass", or " stirrup cup", was the final hospitality offered to a departing guest. Scottish silver stirrup cups, Hallmarked Edinburgh, 1917
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