Danny Boy Lyrics
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.
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
I'll be there in sunshine or in shadow;
Oh Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, I love you so!
If I am dead, as dead I may well be.
Ye'll come and find the place where I am lying.
And kneel and say an Ave there for me.
And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be.
For you will bend and tell me that you love:
And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me!
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:)