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Danny Boy
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Danny Boy is one of over 100 songs composed to the same tune. The author was an English lawyer, Frederic Edward Weatherly (1848-1929), who was also a songwriter and radio entertainer. In 1910 he wrote the words and music for an unsuccessful song he called Danny Boy. In 1912 his sister-in-law in America sent him a tune called the "Londonderry Air" ... which he had never heard before. He immediately noticed that the melody was perfectly fitted to his Danny Boy lyrics, and published a revised version of the song in 1913. As far as is known, Weatherly never set foot in Ireland.
Melody Traditional
Lyrics by Fred Weatherly
Oh Danny Boy the pipes the pipes are calling
from glen to glen and down the mountain side
The summer's gone and all the roses falling
'tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when Summer's in the meadow,
or when the valley's hushed and white with snow.
'Tis I'll be there in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Danny Boy, Oh Danny Boy I love you so.
Additional Lyrics:
2) And when ye come and all the flowers are dying
If I am dead, as dead I well may be
You'll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say an Ave there for me.
3) And I shall hear tho' soft you tread above me
And all my grave will warmer sweeter be
If you will bend and tell me that you love me
Then I shall slep in peace until you come to me.
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