Sinead O'Connor - The Parting Glass Lyrics

When I pass on this has to be my funeral song!!!!

After scouring the internet for versions of this song this is the best one.💖

My wonderful BF use to sing this to me when I would come home from Cedars Hosp. After re-check she would sing this song. This year she had a blood clot and spent 4 months in the hospital. She will never be BF that I knew and is not doing well, I send this song to her. I love her she is such a beautiful person.

Beautiful.

🥰❤️🌹💋🔥✝️ 🇮🇪

Lovely Sinaed, the golden throated songbird, we love you that for all your suffering, you still shine a guiding light before us. Do not be ashamed of your beauty. God gave it to you and told us all not to hide our light under a bushel. God's gifts are her compensation to us for suffering in this life. When you get to heaven and remove your earthly form, your spirit will shine forth in it's golden glory, for all your suffering has only added a patina that shall be spotless in heaven.

Love you so much Sinead.

I like Freddie whites solo guitar versions.. Sorry miss O'Connor.. Joy be with you

The best version i‘ve ever heard

After suffering through Ed Sheran’s butchery of this traditional ode, I was so happy to find this gorgeous 100% beautiful version by the lovely Sinead.
Even the instrumental introduction is a delight, and sets the tone of a happy parting, rather than a sad dirge. 🌹🇦🇺🌹

LOVE TO ALL !

May we all be half an hour in heaven before the devils knows we are dead!!!! :)

SO Plastic NO

amazingly tender voice.

The only version better than Cara's- perfection:)😙

an American wake song I think

It's sung in the United States, but it was originally a Scottish song. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parting_Glass

Rubbish version

Allo sinead o, Connor you see for my number one in this world thank you for video and professionals and beautiful

Daniel bay

Now this is the Sinead we all know:::))) Cheer's

Nothing compares to you

You see for my is numbers one in this world very good thank you see need

Thank for your humanity bay daniel

Really love this version of the song.

always thought of it as an American wake

Fantastic version of this great song Sinéad

This song so describe a beautiful history in the entire europe especially the British and Scott bravo bravo !!! .

Great version, best i have heard. And being Irish I've heard quite a few versions

Я люблю тебя вечно, Магда!!!

"Night GodBless" has ALWAYS been the end of day blessing .

To me this is a deep song of male friendships and its curious to here it sung well by a women.

Font name?

I keep coming back to this beautiful version. Her timing and control are both perfect.

i love her interpretation from this song

Just what I need to start my day with thanks and love from Israel.

Piękna piosenka. Dziękuję i serdecznie pozdrawiam z upalnej Polski.

She paces it just wee bit too slow! It's much improved if speed set up to 1.5.

Tóireasa Purviance-Meehan I agree, I love Sinèads voice, but Cara Dillons version is haunting x

Fantastic song very moving Sinéad's voice is perfect🙏🍀

Great song, fantastic rendition, but if you can't take friendly suggestions about the transcription for your subtitles then you get an undeletable thumbs down.

Goodby Sir I shall miss your purity of heart for us, everyday I will remember you...........

my favorite version!
Also my funeral song too.

My favourite version of this song by far. Thank you!

(At 2:30 I think Sinéad sings "...in thrall", not "enthralled", and at 3:49 I think she sings "... and yous should not", not "...you should not". Please note the specific historical Irish connotation of being 'in thrall', and also the charming Irish manner of addressing a group of people before a person, 'yous'. In British English we only have the somewhat clumsy "you all". In US English there is "y'all" or 'yall', which is also quite charming.)

One of the very few unique voices out there.

bob dylan, the honest thief, brought me here, and I say that with affection.

Here is Mark Knopfler's version of the dylan song, which it rooted in the one O'Connor sings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fKszPYmj7s

Just discovered this song. Very nice version.

nice voice but the arrangement is horrible.

Proud to be Irish

It’s an okay version

One of the greatest voices of all time...thankyou Sinead!

and yous should not

I love this song, I love her. So there it is.

Sinead Has A Golden Voice@ A Beautiful Lady Also.💕

And crazy as a bat!

Ah Sinead your a magician.

It is supposed to be written about a scottish man emigrating to the north of of Ireland during the plantation of ulster in the seventeenth century.

Irish music is the only kind that keeps me sane.

except it's Scottish from the 1600's!

Wish the Irish were so kind to the English as the English are to everyone else, love ireland both North and Republic but politics and religion divides both North and South,

You're being facetious, right?

Lol!! British Empires anyone 😂

god I love her voice! Peace and happiness Sinead

🇮🇪 👀👄 Wow! This version is a fav of mine 💚 Sinéad girl you are truly gifted, such a beauitful and powerful voice. much love from the old 🇮(the pie) "Dundrum / Holylands Knacker Drinking Gang". 🎙🍺 💚🎵🇮🇪

OH MAH GOD MY MUM GREW UP ACROSS THE ROAD FROM SINEAD O CONNOR HOW COOL IS THAT

Beautiful Sinéad.

Cray world

Crazy world

I love her voice

can anyone tell me why the old Irish lettering was changed in Ireland???

Because Cartographers and artists stoped writing and printers started printing a standard script...?

oh, thank you. I didn't know why and I love the old text?

Best version....girls got vocal skills

Thank you Sinead xxx

thanks sinead for the true rendition. still singing ur version of foggy dew even tho easters gone.

+Marian O'Brien: now that's tru talent not the noisy X- Factor factory............

When do i see your garden and the love from Ireland bring us hart together in love and sweetness home in our hart and joy for ever deer peggy

Anyone come here to cleanse their ears after Ed's?

LOL yes me too

To be fair I love Ed Sheran and even I appreciate that not everyone likes him. Lol some people get so mad over someone else's opinion, they are doing it to themselves so people should just calm down and enjoy whatever music they want.

Nick gers If somebody doesn’t dig someone’s music do you automatically assume it is because they are popular? Why? Sinéad was and is immensely popular. I don’t like Ed Sheeran but my music taste includes countless artists that have had huge mainstream success. Not necessarily within the last decade but that is beyond the point.

@Nick gers get real he's bullshit

Ey! A deep cleanse

Just lovely. Thanks.

"A corporation's product sent me here. (please like me, please like me, please like me, please like me, please like me)"

This isn't my favourite version of this song... Ronnie Drew has got me there....but Sineads voice is just so beautiful ... wonderful woman...

I'm not overly fond of Sinead O'Connor (she takes herself WAY to seriously), but this is a pretty good rendition of the Parting Glass.

+miscellaniac yeahn she always did ,it is and always was her biggest failing,she set herself up as a voice for irish nationlism and I suspect it did her international career much harm

+Slavic Pride She is internationally known, though. Literally everyone I know knows Nothing Compares to You, and I live in the southern US, which isn't known for being culturally diverse. Most people here just listen to country, yet EVERYONE knows that song. It's like one of those songs that everyone just inexplicably knows, like My Heart Will Go On or Thriller.

+miscellanic: like most Artists the heart leads, emotions near the surface....................but always TALENTED................it's part of being an ARTIST.........

thank you girigal gridghe

This is the best version of this song i have ever heard

Got say Liam (?) Clancy's version is a belter, search you tube, there's a video of his family all singing this at his graveside very moving

George Donaldson's version of this song is the best I have ever herd

Hair of The Dog accapella is by far my favorite.

Sinead is amazing and I think her version of many traditional Irish Classics is the best (especially Foggy Dew with the Chieftains) but in this one instance I have to with Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem - just the emotion they catch in their rendition

The UCD choral society do a great version also

listen fuds it matters not  scots or irish this is a renditon of a beautiful song sung by a wonderfull voice and control she is surely bardagh quality

@grioghair macgrioghair Well spoken. It's lovely, all that matters

@Olivia Hall of course it is I NEVER AGREED WITH HER POLITICS BUT WOULD SAY SHE IS ONE OF THE BEST SINGERS THE LAST AND THIS CENTURY HAS SEEN HER CONTROL IS AMAZING SKY BUCK IS OBVIOUSLY ISHAN SHUSKA AND THEY BELIEVE THEY ARE GODS REPS ON EARTH THEY ARE JUST USUALLY LATE TO THE FIGHT OR CAN ONLY SPOUT ON THE WEB AS UR A LADY I WILL NOT TRANSLATE MY COMMENT TO HIM IT IS GLASWEGIAN AND A LITTLE COARSE

the arrangement is hokey as fuck

@Sky Buck bollocks fud get real or pisht awa

not sure what you just said but i'd rather listen to the high kings

@Sky Buck He was basically telling you to get real or piss off. :)

Listen, Alice, there is only so much room on the island for us Paddies, but, I know with sentiments like yours, we would definitely find room for someone like yourself. Gurra maith agat (thank you)>

It is go raibh math agat

+Bobby Dazzler *maith

WHY WAS I BORN IN ITALY?
I do wish I was Irish, I'm just in ove with Ireland and its people and culture

I, m Daniel I, m are for see need very good and big professional in this world good bay good bless

I’m Irish I would love to be Italian, it pisses rain here 355 days outta the year, so I’ll swap life’s no probs. 😸😸😸

Perché in Irlanda e non in Italia troverai che la pietra non è vile materiale ma madre di tutte le cose.. Se riscoprirai la pietra viva che è vicino a te, le farfalle ti sembreranno davvero ma davvero fatine. 🤪 Anche in Italia.

@Sophisticated Dinosaur if you was born in America then you most definately aren't Irish. They don't consider anybody Irish unless you where born there, even if both parents are irish you'll be classed as a 'plastic paddy'.

@Jason Hendry I forget what exactly was going through my head at the time, but my basic point was that I hate people who act like genetics and family traditions are irrelevant and that white people are just white with no difference between them, as opposed to a black man born in america who would be considered African American, Jamaican, Dominican, etc rather than just being black, or how every different asian ethnicity is specified down to a percent and nobody bats an eye.

Ac4 brought me here. I just finished the game after more or less than a year playing it.

there is only one parting glass... the one before Edward Kenway departure.

@FreeSightDesign Nope I've heard it on the tavern before

  To me, this tune speaks to the bonds of friendship, the limitations of being human and the great revelations of being human. To a life well spent and a life worth living. To my Celtic sisters and brothers out there, joy to you all and may we be in the same Pub to share a parting glass.  Slainte!

Hal Barbour is Barbour an Irish surname? I always wondered of its origin. It is my surname as well 😊

Me and my friends sing this song together whenever we have our last drink together before splitting up for the year. All 3 of us have Irish ancestry.

God her voice is divine. What control. I am a fan 30 years later again.:) 
What is most amazing is her pacing. 

This is a song of a life lived well, not in search of money, fame or glory, recognizing your friends and foibles.
 There are very many great write-ups to the origin of the song and it's meanings for me throw in my two pennies worth. 

If this is a traditional Scots/Irish song, we know where Bob Dylan got most of the lyrics and structure for his "Restless Farewell" in 1963. He was a huge fan of traditional Celtic songs, and probably still is.

Pritcher Malygris I

its a song of humility and grace...

Oh to see the top of the mountain, tis a glorious thing to behold.

Ned Devine brought me here...

To Ned....

Photo looks very much like the view down Loch Carron to Strathcarron in Scotland, near Strome Ferry.  I have a photo from the very spot. Great song, probably more meaningful then "Auld Lang Syne."

YouTube brought me here.

Me Too...

AC4 brought me here

Me too, just finished the game.

Now we are three and More Beautiful end AC4

Aye, that it does.

this song always has me crying full bloody tears

Funny, it's the only things that stops my tears...I'll have it at my wake. In the meantime, I sing it over and over again as those I love leave this land for the upper reaches of the heavens ~ in joy I sing my thanks for them...

Sin'ead . Aftter cousin' the pope all those years ago. You've come home. I say fuck rome me'self so yuo're in good company.. Keep up wid singing ours .Welldone girl

She's still around! Brilliant performance at this year's Beautiful Days festival!

I heard it in the walking dead and heard Ed sheeran sing it and now listened to this like 4 times

Listen to the version by Muireann Nic Amhlaoidh to see how it can be done. This is very weak.

I should record my dad singing this, he sings it well.

Is a song about a man who is going to die. That is what he is asking for "the parting glass" Check my version of this tune in my chanel and you will realise that is a sad song.

PD: I am not an english-speaking guy to! XD

I don't think that it really is a sad song, is it?

I like the cosy and companionable mood of the text and that the protagonist is satisfied with what he has and how he treated the people he met in his life.

Or am I wrong here? I'm no English-speaking guy, but from Germany, so a missunderstanding is quite possible ;)

Álainn

Maybe too happy for a sad song like this?

Great song sung by a lot of talent, what ever happened to her.

I GOT GREAT PLEASURE TO LISTEN IT! THANKS

I listened to Ed Sheeran's hidden song and I'm learning it now I love it so much. Plus I want to sing i to my irish boyfriend <3