Danny Boy

Lyrics traditional. Arranged by the Gothard Sisters.
Recorded on the Compass album in 2013.

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 hushed and white with snow
and I’ll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy
I love you so

But when ye come, and all the flowers dying
if 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 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