Robert Burns referred to the air in 1786 as 'Good night, and joy be wi' ye a'.' when using it to accompany his Masonic lyric 'The Farewell. The earliest known appearance of the tune today associated with this text is as a fiddle tune called 'The Peacock', included in James Aird's A Selection of Scots, English, Irish and Foreign Airs in 1782. (The final verse is the first verse in the Scots version.) Įxact lyrics vary between arrangements, but they include most, if not all, of the following stanzas appearing in different orders: 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. 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 16. An early version is sometimes attributed to Sir Alex Boswell. The earliest known printed version was as a broadside in the 1770s and it first appeared in book form in Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc. The custom was practised in several continental countries. Once they had mounted, they were presented one final drink to fortify them for their travels. The 'parting glass', or ' stirrup cup', was the final hospitality offered to a departing guest. Scottish silver stirrup cups, Hallmarked Edinburgh, 1917

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