Song 52 in Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors
Danny Boy
Also known as: Londonderry Air
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For Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors.
Slow (70% speed) (1:32)
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All the words
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,
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,
It's I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow,
Oh, Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, I love you so!But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
Ye'll come and find the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say an Ave there for me;
And I shall hear, though 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!
About this song
- Music
- Traditional Irish (Londonderry Air, first printed by George Petrie, 1855)
- Words
- Frederic E. Weatherly (1848–1929)
- First published
- Tune 1855 (Petrie, Ancient Music of Ireland); song with Weatherly's words 1913 (Boosey & Co.)
- Copyright
- Public domain in the US, UK and EU. The arrangement and recordings belong to the book.