Sung by Mme. Schumann-Heink, Miss Florence HInkle
and Mr. Dan Beddoe.
"Danny Boy" (1913)
Song.
Words by Fred. E. Weatherly
Adapted from an Old Irish Air
[tune originaly published
as "Londonberry Air" in 1855]
by Fred. E. Weatherly

1.
Oh, Danny Boy 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 here in sunshine or in shadow,
Oh, Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, I love you son!

2.
But when ye come, and all the flow'rs are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
Ye'll come and fine the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say an A-ve 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!