Lemuel, hello everyone!
On a recent Lightline, before transmissions, when were all chatting,
someone mentioned the song, Danny Boy.
This brought back so many memories because I sang that song many times
in my younger days. It has brought tears to many over the years.
I thought you may like to see the lyrics.
Oh Danny Boy
Oh, 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,
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,
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 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.
Written by English songwriter Frederic Weatherly in 1913 and set to
traditional Irish melody, "Londonderry Air"
