Danny Boy Lyrics
Pretty much regardless of who's singing it, this is one of my all-time favorite songs. It's about a mother who sends her son off to make a life for himself, knowing only too well that chances are she'll be long dead before he does well enough to come back to her. But her own death is unimportant to her. It's sooooo sad. It's the best song to sing when yr having one too many Guinnesses.
This was one of my favorites when I heard her first CD. It's still one of my favorites now. I had to sing it for my grandmother once and she started bawling. But she bawls just about every time I sing....
Everyone else thinks it's about lovers, but I've always thought it was about a mother and her son. Either way, this is one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
My children and ex sang this to my dying father in hospice after he had received the Last Rites for the sixth time. He came back to us and lived another three years. It's a beautiful song, yet very sad. I used to think it was about death. Apparently my father did not agree:)