A New Old Closing Song

Greetings, all,

I've wanted to close the jam with a song for a while, but which one? Auld Lang Syne is so seasonal, and The Parting Glass (to the tune Goodnight and Joy Be With You All) - as usually sung - is so associated with the Irish, specifically The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem. But the song is much older than that, and its earliest text can be traced to a Scottish broadside from around 1654, called "Neighbours farewel to his friends". It seems to me that this would be the perfect text. I have changed "GOD" to "Joy" below to fit the more familiar version of the closing line.

Now come is my departing time,
And here I may no longer stay,
There is no kind comrade of mine
But will desire I were away.
But if that time will me permit,
Which from your Company doth call,
And me inforceth for to flit,
Good Night, and Joy be with you all.

For here I grant some time I spent
In loving kind good Company;
For all offences I repent,
And wisheth now forgiven to be;
What I have done, for want of wit,
To Memory I'll not recall:
I hope you are my Friends as yet
Good Night, and Joy be with you all.

Complementing I never lov'd,
Nor talkative much for to be,
And of speeches a multitude
Becomes no man of quality;
From Faith, Love, Peace and Unity,
I wish none of us ever fall;
God grant us all prosperity:
Good Night, and Joy be with you all.

I wish that I might longer stay,
To enjoy your Society;
The Lord to bless you night and day,
And still be in your Company.
To vice, nor to iniquity,
God grant none of you ever fall,
God's blessing keep you both and me!
Good Night, and Joy be with you all.

The Friends Reply.

Most loving friend, God be thy guide,
And never leave thy Company,
And all things needful thee provide,
And give thee all prosperity;
We rather had thy Company,
It thou woulds't have stayed us among;
We wish you much felicity:
Good grant that nothing doe thee wrong.

I'll be learning it! How about you? More info about the history of the song here.