O Danny boy (Londonderry Air) (Traditional)
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- Editor: Adriano Secco (submitted 2004-09-28). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 200 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: arranged by Adriano Secco
General Information
Title: O Danny Boy (Londonderry Air)
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional)
Lyricist: Frederick Edward Weatherlycreate page, 1848-1929
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Folksong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations
English text
- O Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
- From glen to glen and down the mountainside
- 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 here in sunshine or in shadow
- O Danny boy, O Danny boy, I love you so.
- But if 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.
- And I shall hear, though soft, your tread above me
- And all my grave shall warmer, sweeter be
- For you will bend and tell me that you love me
- And I will sleep in peace until you come to me.