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Danny Boy Danny Boy dates back to the 1600s, with words first being added as "The Londonderry Air." Frederick Edward Weatherly wrote the "Danny Boy" lyrics in 1913.

Oh Danny boy, the pipes the pipes are calling From glen to glen and down the mountain sides 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. 'Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow. Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy I love you so. And when you come, and all the flowers are dying And I am dead, as dead I well may be You'll come and find the place where I am lying And kneel and say an Ave there for me. And I shall feel as soft you tread above me And all the earth shall softer, sweeter be. And you will bend and tell me that you love me. And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me.

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