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ONE BUMPER AT PARTING. AKA and see "Mall Rua," "Moll Roe in the Morning," "Ditherum Doodle," "Though late was I plump," "Come Under My Dimity," "Late on a Saturday Night," "Night of the Fun (3) (The)," "Munsterman's Flattery," "I'll take a glass with a friend," "B'fhearr liomsa ainnir gan guna." "One bumper at parting" is the title of a song by Thomas Moore [1] (1779-1852), set to the melody "Mall Rua." Moore's lyric, which appears in his Irish Melodies, begins:

One bumper at parting! -- though many
Have circled the board since we met,
The fullest, the saddest of any
Remains to be crown'd by us yet.
The sweetness that pleasure hath in it
Is always so slow to come forth,
That seldom, alas, till the minute
It dies, do we know half its worth.
But come -- may our life's happy measure
Be all of such moments made up;
They're born on the bosom of Pleasure,
Thy die 'midst the tears of the cup.

19th century Irish collector P. W. Joyce notes: "Here is how Mr. Patrick Murray (see Old Irish Folk Music and Songs, 1909, p. 154) describes them about 1840 in a parody on Moore's 'One bumper at parting' (a lumper, in Mr. Murray's version, means a big potato):-

One lumper at parting, though many
Have rolled on the board since we met,
The biggest the hottest of any
Remains in the round for us yet.

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See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [2]