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: Traditional
Lyricist: Frederick Edward Weatherly, 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.