Pop Song 628 of 1000 'Danny Boy' Frederic Weatherly 1910

Pop Song 628 of 1000 'Danny Boy' Frederic Weatherly 1910

MV    • Danny Boy - Irish Tenor - Emmet Cahill  
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Bagpipes    • "Danny Boy" played on the bagpipes  

Some interpret the song to be a message from a parent to a son going off to war.
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 there 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 Avé 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!