Oh, Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountainside;
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 hush’d 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 flow’rs 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 Ave 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!
Frederic Weatherly