<P> 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 "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 . </P> <P> Exact lyrics vary between arrangements, but they include most, if not all, of the following stanzas appearing in different orders: </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> The Parting Glass Lyrics </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Of all the money that e'er I had <P> I spent it in good company </P> <P> And all the harm I've ever done </P> <P> Alas it was to none but me </P> <P> And all I've done for want of wit </P> <P> To mem'ry now I can't recall </P> <P> So fill to me the parting glass </P> <P> Good night and joy be to you all </P> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> So fill to me the parting glass <P> And drink a health whate'er befall, </P> <P> And gently rise and softly call </P> <P> Good night and joy be to you all </P> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Of all the comrades that e'er I had <P> They're sorry for my going away </P> <P> And all the sweethearts that e'er I had </P> <P> They'd wish me one more day to stay </P> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> But since it fell unto my lot <P> That I should rise and you should not </P> <P> I gently rise and softly call </P> <P> Good night and joy be to you all </P> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> A man may drink and not be drunk <P> A man may fight and not be slain </P> <P> A man may court a pretty girl </P> <P> And perhaps be welcomed back again </P> <P> But since it has so ought to be </P> <P> By a time to rise and a time to fall </P> <P> Come fill to me the parting glass </P> <P> Good night and joy be with you all </P> <P> Good night and joy be with you all </P> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> The Parting Glass Lyrics </Th> </Tr>

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