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  • Raising a glass to George tonight, one year gone. Bless ye, laddy. Thanks for this, Brother Walt.

  • What a Wonderful Song!Eire is one of the Greatest Places on Earth!!!!

  • I cant listen to this song without balling my eyes out. The history behind it and the way Shaun Davey composed it. its almost too powerful for my ears to bear.

  • This is the best version of the song i've ever heard. ty 

  • play this at my funeral

  • I LOVE this film!!!!!

  • thumbs up if your part irish part and part scotish like me

  • One year ago my last grandma past away. As a true Irishman I drank. For all my grandparents I raise my glass. And just know that I miss you all so damn much. For Nana, Papa Ted, Papa Bob, and Patsy Gram.

  • Just can't believe anyone can dislike it! Love it, love Ireland!

  • one of the greatest song's in the filmhistory :)

  • i caught this movie by accident in a hotel in Barcelona of all places, and just fell in love with the Irish atmosphere. Throughout the entire movie the music is beautiful

  • What a masterpiece. I bet you anything that all these poor souls that clicked on "dislike" thought that it meant "download."

  • @TubinBM Seems like everyone is feeling some sort of connection to what you wrote about your father. I'm sorry for your loss. My family and I played this song and took a drink for my uncle when he passed away a few years ago. It's a touching song. I'd be honored to have it played at my funeral. Don't worry, you and your Dad will meet up again.

  • I miss my homeland and my family. :( I miss you Ireland.

  • @TubinBM that touched my heart.... your dad seemed like a lovely person and he's in an amazing place called heavan now <3 and im sure he's glad the last thing he heard was you singing this song to him so meanfully... may your father rest in peace <3

  • To Marco Simoncelli......great man.....forever in our hearts and anywhere you are, remember.......GGGGAAAAAASSSSS­SSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(

  • @jorges71: i love your comment.... i thought to the same song when thinking about Marco... i love to know somebody else did the same...

  • TO NED!

  • found this through ed sheeran.

  • I would actually appreciate a lot if somebody posted the poem in the original language (the poem at the beginning of the song).

  • This was, unless I'm mistaken, sung at Liam Clancy's graveside, I believe spontaneously.

  • A rough translation of poem preceding the song:

    "Good prayers to those who blew the wind

    And all those who steered the ship

    We brought it in against the beach

    thanks until the day of my death."

    Its not easy to translate directly into English, poems are usually difficult.

  • @davidrail68 hey no critisism mate my gaelic is a little rusty...haha but isnt it more we brought it against the tide? if im am wrong please correct me.

  • @davidrail68 Good job Thank You. I'm 53 years old and live in Boston and never heard this before Ned Devine. How could I have missed this song? I can't stop playing it.

  • Great song!! It gives me goose bumps, but does anyone know what's being said in the Gaelic part?

  • Such a beautiful, moving sentiment.

  • I've sung this tune a hundred times at the end of a Faire day, but this time when I listened, all I could think of was my beloved's good friend and fellow US Army cavalry scout Blake Atherton. Atherton, we miss you every day, and your stories will be told for as long as we live (whether you'd like it or not!). You would have been 30 years old, this summer. We who are still in Midgard raise our parting glass to you in Odin's corpse-hall, and may we join you there when our last battle is fought.

  • My cousin past away in 2009 he had two children he was 39, my aunt died last year at 70 cancer took them both, two people too young. two people i loved with my whole heart. I hear this song and remember them. To Julian and Aunty Val.. You will always be remembered and always loved

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  • Anyone who dislikes this is bonkers. What an incredibly moving and powerful song.

  • Everything Irish reminds me of you. I'm glad we went together to your childhood home,beautiful Donegal.

    I miss you Ma.

  • Raise your glass to Jack Layton...

  • I've had this friend throughout Elementary School and up to High School Graduation. His name is Gary Keller. He's kind, selfless, and brave (even though he was scrawny and anyone could beat him up) greeting anyone no matter how mean with a grin. He's a very good friend to all of our grad class. He's had cancer since sophomore year and he died today.  I'm going to his funeral tomorrow and I hope to God that he's up there re-watching the Classic seasons of Power Rangers. Him and Power Rangers

  • R.ip my grandpa I miss you

  • in memory of Bill (William Wallace) Campbell - today RIP 4 August 2011....

  • @ellymay57 And to Hal Dowling. RIP 2 August 2011.

  • @ellymay57 to all our absent friends.... and family.... until we meet again...

  • my dad and i have both agreed to have this song played at our funerals, a bit morbid, but everytime i hear this song now i cry:)

  • My Uncle passed away recently and I sung this in his honor. Wasn't a dry eye around. Not because I can sing, but because this is such a great song. 

  • Seo, creidim, an t-amhran is fearr liom ar fad. Ba mhaith liom ag caoinadh nuair a bhim ag eisteacht.  Go raibh maith ag Shaun Davey.

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  • my dad died last week,95 we will never see the likes of him walk this earth.. A legend..to you dad i raise a glass,

  • Could some kind person please add the Gaelic version of Forever In Your Debt?

    Thanks in advance.

  • @wyrmsbane54

    Guím maith dhóibh siúd a shéid an ghaoth

    agus iad uilig a stiúir an bád

    thugamar linn é i gcoinne an trá

    bead buíoch thar lá mo bháis

  • @Psychonaut316

    Go raibh agat a chara. Ca bhfuair tu na focla?

  • To you my good friend Richard! God Speed my friend! I shall raise a parting glass to you this evening!

  • 10 people are plain out stupid!!!!!!!

  • all time greatest movie and soundtrack

  • sad... but deeply meaningful song about the trials and tribulations of life!

    truly beautiful song!

  • So much traditional Celtic music has a lot of sadness in it...I wonder if this has something to do with the tragic history of the Celts, especially in Ireland.

    Yet they are still here, and millions of people all over the world can proudly claim Celtic ancestry, myself included.

  • So much traditional Celtic music has a lot of sadness in it...I wonder if this has something to do with the tragic history of the Celts, especially in Ireland.

  • When I lay on my deathbed, I hope I'll be able to sing this song and truly mean every word.

  • I'd like to have the tense "So fill me to the parting glass. Goodnight and joy be with you all" on my grave...

  • Slainchen! :)

  • This is truly a good song,it feels right to the soul.

  • Gave this to a friend whose father had passed and words failed to hit the mark. Makes me think of home.

  • It reminds me of home!

  • bless all your relatives

  • Love you Poppy.

  • @psadpoiafsdf Obviously you have no class. You have every right to express your opinion but please let us know how you ever climbed out of the slime pit you live in to post this remark.

  • @tommykells1

    Easy now boyo....bad karma is repaid with bad karma.....never mind the bumps in the road....keep yer eye on the fair maidens....the sassy lassies....and the setting sun into which you sail.......all the rest is simply dust in the wind of Life......bless yer soul laddie!!!!

  • @mysweeteventhorizon

    Thank you for your wise words. No poet could have said it better. Have a great life.

  • @psadpoiafsdf / have you not realized that your moronic comment is the only negative one?????should be ashamed of yourself to belittle such a beautiful song/ but what can be expected from a bigoted yankee moron!!

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  • Its my mothers birthday today . She loved this song .

  • For my Nan's wake we played this song and had a proper party! She woulda loved it.

  • played at my grandpa's funeral, such a beautiful song. RIPxxx

  • I have music back to 1900 and I must admit of all the music in my collection this is the best recording in my collection. Tonight my wife and I agreed that this will be played at the end of our funerals. Goodnight and joy be with you all!

  • My Dad passed away wednesday morning. It was just me and him, He was at the end after a long illness. This was the last song he heard. I sang it to him along with it playing in the background. I have always loved this song and now it will be forever be our song, So to my dad I lift a parting glass and wish him well on his journey. He was a good man in a small town. I doubt if ever I will meet such a man again. Love you Dad!!

  • @TubinBM

    He is honored by your love. I'm so touched by your words.

  • @TubinBM What beautiful tune to carry your father away with. I lost my dad a few years back and filled his funeral ceremony with songs that meant a great deal to him. It felt the best way to honor him and say farewell. I wish you all the best and many happy memories of your dad to come.

  • @TubinBM : Your description is so simple and so perfect...what a way to send a loved one down the long farewell...a song that rings with joy and love. Hopefully I'll have years yet with my Dad...but I hope, when the time comes, that I'll be able to sing him to his rest. I do know that he -will- be piped into the ground -- with this tune, and a full pipes-and-drums band, if I can manage it -- and if not, then I will play him this march on our family's WWI pipes, myself.

  • @TubinBM You made my eyes water man. Stay strong.

  • @TubinBM So very sorry to hear of your father's passing and the sad, but sweet, story you shared about it. ♥ You did a wonderful thing, singing this song to him to the end. He heard every bit of it and I'm sure he cherished it, and you. Stay strong and take care. I just lost my mother on the 6th and I feel your pain.  {{{hugs}}}

  • @TubinBM Sorry for your loss man, I've lost both parents, a brother etc, hard to listen to this song, it brings me back Eire and the fireside with them

  • @TubinBM I saw this film with my dad in a cinima when I was 8, I remember cos my mum and brother went to some classical thing and we did this instead. I remember my dad enjoyed it so much (which is rare for him) and we always watch it together, he always trys to say the irishy bit at the start, lol. Anyway I love this song so much, I think maby because it makes me think of my dad. bless you all what a wonderfull song!!!

  • @TubinBM Beautiful. My dad wants this someday played at his funeral, but I'm not sure if I'll have the strength to listen.

  • @BrennaG03 i literally said the same thing to my father. But once it played it was one of the best memories i have of us together.. Yes, together, in spirit and in euphoria.

    God bless.

  • @TheHallowed12 Yes but at his funeral once he's gone might be very painful for me to hear this. However I intend to honor his wishes.

  • @TubinBM Usually I sort of scoff at people's anecdotal comments on youtube, but reading about your dad passing as the pipes played in the beginning... it brought a tear to my eye, and that doesn't happen often. I'm so sorry for your loss, but thanks for giving this song much deeper meaning for me

  • @TubinBM That is priceless. Godspeed!

  • man, liam o maonlai is such a great musician!

  • goodbuy quiqley the cat

  • You know, this would have been a good song to play at the end of "October Sky"

  • To my youngest brother Liam I wish I could have sung this for you, God Bless you till we are all together again.

  • She was a great person

  • I'd like to know who the 9 dolts are that don't like this song....that being said.....Long live Ireland!

  • man this song melts my heart

  • To Dad, to Mom, To Grandda', to Nana...all gone now , but never forgotten.

  • cheers bri, love you forever

  • Cheers, Dad. Much love from the bottom of my heart.

  • ahhhh The leaving, but the heaven is full of us all isn't it

  • Slainchen! :)

  • I "liked" this video. If there was a "love" option I'd press that

  • @davereilly1992 Love the memoriam you paid to your Dad. Most of us have loved our parents profoundly regardless of all their shortcomings. Who amongst us don't have those? Time heals all wounds whether great or small. Forgiveness is a gift we bestow upon ourselves. I miss mine and think of them every day.

  • I "liked" this cideo. If there was a love option I'd press it

  • thank you very much for your reply

  • @54321bb No problem. Cheers.

  • Can you tranlate the Gaelic words spoken before the song begins please thnx..

  • @54321bb "Forever In Your Debt"

    With thanks to those who blew the wind,

    And those who sailed the ship,

    We sailed it tight against the tide,

    And I shall be forever in your debt.

  • This is a beautiful song. And one of the few that has made me cry.

  • does anyone know the translation to the prayer he says before the song starts?

  • @cowley14ssm "Forever In Your Debt"

    With thanks to those who blew the wind,

    And those who sailed the ship,

    We sailed it tight against the tide,

    And I shall be forever in your debt.

  • although I'm 100% Thai..but i like the meaning of this song.

  • I would also love this played at my funeral. My aunt who just died was Irish and she had Danny Boy played just for her. Everyone sobbed.

  • To Ned. Bottoms up.

  • Only one movie makes me cry no matter how many times i watch it, waking ned devine is that movie.

  • Remember the man, may we forever be in your debt. to ned devine

  • Jackie) Come on, we're almost at the top!

    Sleep it off later like the rest of them

    - Do we all have a drink? - Here, Maurice.

    Take a drink...

    ..and remember the man.

    Then raise your spirits to the sky!

    Raise them to Ned Devine!

    God bless you, Ned!

    And may we be forever in your debt.

    To Ned Devine

  • @pepelepew2006 to ned

  • @pepelepew2006 To Ned!

  • I was a soldier also long time ago....I am much older and I sob when I hear the tune of the song likewise

  • Best version of this song ever.

  • Its hard for me to admit, but this sound track is the Only ST than O Brother Where Art Thou. And th Movie... ah the Movie. This is some of the Most beautiful tears you will ever cry. I am Blessed to have watched this Movie and Own this sound track. These's like 7 languages spoken and sung. Lux externa. We all need a Ned Devine in our Lives

  • @radrockitpsyance watch the thin red line. btw, i agree oh brother and waking ned are great, some of us just love music i guess !!

  • perhaps the most beautiful song on this earth. always brings me to tears

  • My grandma passed away today... I raised my glass and said a toast with this song playing. R.I.P. Nana.  I will love you forever.

  • @Noceo99 I'm sorry for your loss. God rest her soul....

  • @bullirish thank you very much...

  • @Noceo99 Aye! To Kevin Macmanomon and his sweet Jessica Howard. 10/06/10

  • @Noceo99 They played this at my great aunt's funeral......R.I.P. Rosemary Glines :( i love this movie

  • @Noceo99 Thats right proper, sorry for your loss, to our dearly departed...cheers

  • @Noceo99 / happy memories of your granny/

  • @Noceo99 came home from a concert to find my dog dead tonight about 1:30.... damn good song

  • @TheVainamoinen I'm so sorry, I know how you must be hurting. I'm so sorry.

  • I used to sing this song when I was in an Irish folk band. I was lucky if I could get through it without getting all teary-eyed. lol

  • For my uncle Sean, who enjoyed a Jameson's whiskey now and again. RIP xx

  • may we be forever in your debt

  • What a voice and medley..

  • What is it that he says at the beginning?

  • my grandmother passed away this week. She was an Irish girl and when I listened to this song again.... I cried. I needed to. This song is going in the tribute video we are making for her wake.... Thanks for posting it.

  • @Garyinspired95 Be sure that your Nan, a beautiful Irish lass, will be laughing with Our Lord.

  • What a film and what a song! RIP Iain Bannan. God bless Ireland and god bless Scotland. Celts together. Gaidhlig, Gaelige, will love forever!!!

    x

  • Tonight I will raise that parting glass for all of those who I can no longer hold and see, my old friends and family. To me they will always be forever young. Merry Christmas. 12/24/2010.........

  • @85points85

    well done, that´s the way it should be. So i will do this night...

  • The Parting glass is a toast. A last drink before you say goodbye.

  • what is a parting glass ?

  • I love this song, but what happened to the words?

  • @21luigiigiul12 i need a version with the singing in there =(

  • I love this song.

  • irish music is sweepingly beautiful isn't it?

    thank u luke maacfarlane for singing this on brothers and sisters... u opened up a world of soulful melody to me

    this song makes me cry everytime

  • This is the version that first got me interested in the song, but the High Kings version (vid is probably on the right hand margin >>>>>>) is the one that moves me the most.

  • @brizcbd You're an Arse. The GI's fighting is the reason you are a free man in a democracy today. Even if it is a socialist republic where you cant get a job. Unless you immigrate to America that is. Not that we should have you.

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  • @runlikehll Your name is appropriate. You sound like the coward that you are. Go fuck yourself. I'm sure nobody else will do it.

  • I never served, but my son graduated West Point in 2006. He served in Iraq twice and lost a close friend in whose wedding he had been a groomsman. He's more Irish than the Irish, and when I saw his grandfather's tribe in the movie, then heard the song for the first time, I broke down like a child. I've studied Synge, Yeats, Blake, and Shakespeare, but nothing got to me like this eulogy.

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  • Still one of my favorite versions of the song. I know of two melodies to which "The Parting Glass" is sung, both of them decidedly melancholy, yet this one just soars.

  • hell..yes..

  • Wow, that was mighty powerful!

  • When I die, I want this played at my funeral.

  • @cainster agreed.

  • 2:25 to skip intrumental

  • Ireland , Irish forever

  • Feckin awesome. One of the most poignant songs ever written. Good night and joy be to you all. <3

  • @FalliciousGee...thank you for serving.

  • Would be nice if I could download this song somewhere, but it doesn't seem to exist. I like this version of it the most.

  • @0932486509 you can convert this into mp3 by going on site 'video2mp3' and enter its url

  • @MrRamblinfever Wow thanks man. That's awesome!

  • I a young lad that has never had to endure or encounter any hard trial in my life. Experienced a pain of something that is hard to bare this day. And that is the passing of my mama. I shed tears that could have flown rivers. And I sang this song the best I could for her before she drew her last. I miss her dearly as I write this. But I know as I'm sitting here she is sitting in the heavens above with all my other relatives with a glass in her hand. So I say this mama you shall never be forgotten

  • to those who never got to grow old:P

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  • I'm 21, a trained US Infantryman and Iraq War Veteran. This song made me sob like a child.

  • @FallaciousGee Just because you're trained to kill, doesn't mean you can't shed a tear. :)

  • @SmoofFlash

    I don't think he was sayin that. Take your negativity elsewhere.

  • @FallaciousGee

    thank you for your service. I'm 20 in college and don't have half the guts you have

  • @FallaciousGee :

    As you heard in this song, you 'll see them all again... hopefully later than sooner... Be strong and live the lifes they couldn't! My prayers are with you!