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Lyrics
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
'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,
For
I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow.
Oh
Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, I love you so.
And
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
o'er my grave shall warmer, sweeter be,
And
if you bend and tell me that you love me,
Then
I shall sleep in peace until you come to me.
Other
authors have added an additional, albeit a controversial verse:
But
should I live, and should you die for Ireland,
Let
not your dying thoughts be all of me;
But
say a prayer to God for our dear Sireland
That
He may hear and help to set her free.
And
I shall take your pike and sword, my dearest
And
strike a blow, though weak that blow may be,
To
help the Cause to which your heart was nearest
And
you will sleep in peace until I come to thee."
or
But
should it be in battle strife that I am slain
Don't
let your dying prayer be all for me
But
say a prayer to God for our dear country
That
He may hear and surely set her free
And
I shall hear and pray with you my dearie
And
I'll strike a blow, yet weak that blow may be
To
help our cause, our hearts' desire, my dearie,
And
we shall rest in peace when Ireland is free
History of the song Danny Boy
Frederick Weatherly
"Danny
Boy" is a song, whose lyrics are set to the Irish tune Londonderry
Air. The lyrics were originally written for a different tune in
1910 by Frederick Weatherly, an English lawyer who never actually
visited Ireland, and modified to fit Londonderry Air in 1913. The
first recording was made by Ernestine Schumann-Heink in 1915. Weatherly
gave the song to Elsie Griffin, who made it one of the most popular
in the new century. Weatherly later suggested in 1928 that the second
verse would provide a fitting requiem for the actress Ellen Terry.
Ellen Terry
Ellen
Terry was an English stage
actress. Terry was the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain in her time
.
The
song is widely considered an Irish anthem, and the tune is used
as the anthem of Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games, even
though the song's writer was not Irish, and the song was and is
more popular outside Ireland than within. It is nonetheless widely
considered by Irish Canadians/Americans to be their unofficial signature
tune. It is frequently included in the organ presentation at Irish-American
funerals.
Though
the song is supposed to be a message from a woman to a man (Weatherly
provided the alternative "Eily dear" for male singers
in his 1918 authorized lyrics, the song is actually sung by men
as much as, or possibly more often than, by women. The song has
been interpreted by some listeners as a message from a parent to
a son going off to war or leaving as part of the Irish diaspora.
Danny Boy Sheet Music
Danny Boy - Acoustic guitar lesson
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Danny Boy Covers
Elvis Presley recorded the song in 1976
Tony Bennett , released on the 1987 Columbia CD, Jazz,
Johnny Cash on American IV
Cher recorded it in 1969 on her Jackson
Highway album
Bing Crosby recorded it for
his Top O' the Morning album
Eric Clapton recorded an
instrumental version of this song.
Glenn Miller
instrumental version (Londonderry Air) in 1940
Roy Orbison on his 1972
Memphis
album
Thin Lizzy
The Pouges BBC Radio session 1984
Celtic Woman - Danny Boy
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Danny Boy in Movies
- Sung by the Irish-American character Maureen McBain in Sergio Leone's spaghetti western Once Upon a Time in the West, even though the movie was set before the song was written.
- In the 1989 movie Family Business,
in the Sean Connery's character wake scene
- In Goodfellas,
after being told by Henry Hill to not bug Jimmy Conway about his share
of the Lufthansa Heist, Morrie Kessler sings the first two lines to
Henry, replacing the name "Danny" with "Henry"
- Played in Miller's Crossing (1990) in the scene when Albert Finney's Irish mob boss defends himself against an attempted hit by a rival gang.
- Featured throughout the score of Memphis Belle (1990) and sung by the character Sgt. Clay Busby played by Harry Connick, Jr.
- Sung by the funeral congregation in the 1990 Andrew Bergman movie The Freshman.
- Sung in Into the West (1992) by one of the main characters Ossie, played by Ciarán Fitzgerald, to make money for chips.
- Rockabilly version performed by Brian Setzer of Stray Cats in The Great White Hype (1996) as the anthem of the Irish-American boxer portrayed by Peter Berg.
- Played by the The Grimethorpe Colliery Band in Brassed Off (1996) when Pete Postlethwaite's character Danny was in hospital.
- Referenced near the end of the film Good Will Hunting (1997), which takes place in Irish South Boston.
- The song is sung in the beginning of the Titanic Town (1998) starring Ciaran Hinds and Julie Walters. The story is set in West Belfast during the early 1970s.
- In the 2005 film, Cinderella Man, Joe Gould (Paul Giamatti) whistled the song before James Braddock's (Russell Crowe) fight with Max Baer (Craig Bierko).
- Featured in the New Zealand film River Queen (2005) sung in both Maori and English.
St Patrick's Day
Saint
Patrick's Day in Chicago
Saint Patrick's
Day (Irish: Lá ’le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St.
Paddy's Day or Paddy's Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates
Saint Patrick (circa 385–461), one of the patron saints of Ireland,
and is generally celebrated on 17 March.
The day
is the national holiday of the Irish people. It is a bank holiday
in Northern Ireland, and a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland,
Montserrat, and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
In the rest of Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United
States and New Zealand, it is widely celebrated but is not an official
holiday.
It became
a feast day in the Roman Catholic Church due to the influence of
the Waterford-born Franciscan scholar Luke Wadding in the early
part of the 17th century, and is a holy day of obligation for Roman
Catholics in Ireland. The date of the feast is occasionally moved
by church authorities when March 17 falls during Holy Week; this
last happened in 1940 when Saint Patrick's Day was observed on April
3rd in order to avoid it coinciding with Palm Sunday, and will happen
again in 2008, when it shall be held on 15 March.
The St. Patrick's Day parade in Dublin, Ireland
is part of a five-day festival; over 500,000 people attended the 2006
parade. The largest St. Patrick's Day parade is held in New York City
and it is watched by over 2 million spectators. The St. Patrick's Day
parade was first held in Boston in 1737, organized by the Charitable
Irish Society. New York's celebration began on 18 March 1762 when Irish
soldiers in the British army marched through the city. The
predominantly French-speaking Canadian city of Montréal, in the province of Québec
has the longest continually running Saint Patrick's day parade in North
America, since 1824.The city's flag has the Irish emblem, the shamrock,
in one of its
corners. Ireland's cities all hold their own parades and festivals.
These cities include Dublin, Cork, Belfast, Derry, Galway, Kilkenny,
Limerick, and Waterford. Parades also take place in other Irish towns
and villages.
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