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Tom Tripp's arrangement of this Traditional Irish song
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Peak #229
Peak in subgenre #19
Author
Words By Frederic E. Weatherly
Rights
Traditional
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March 03, 2005
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MP3 4.7 MB, 128 kbps, 5:07
Story behind the song
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 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.
Lyrics
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 flowers are dying It's you, It's 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 Yes I'll be there in sunshine or in shadow Oh Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, I love you so But when you come and all the flowers are dying If I am dead, and 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 And I shall hear tho' soft you tread above me And all my grave will warmer sweeter be For you will bend and tell me that you love me And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me Oh Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, I love you so
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