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Danny Boy
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Tom Tripp's arrangement of this Traditional Irish song
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Country Music, Gospels, StoryTeller, psalmist , Spoken Word
I want to say thank you to John Goode at radio Yass FM100.3 in Australia and Radio Southland 96.4 FM, Invercargill, New Zealand , presented by Noel Parry, and ?COUNTRY ROADS? RADIO SHOW AT FM 98.5 THE PULSE OF THE VALLEYS SHEPPARTON VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA and other radio station around the world for giving my songs/stories air play .................................................................... Welcome to my "Sound Click" web pages. I am a Storyteller and a psalmist , a talker of music. and a writter. Please visit my Home Page at www.countrylovin.us or go to my link page here on SC and click on the link there. All my web pages are family safe,so please feel free to email my links to your family and friends. Here is a little about myself: TOM TRIPP's love for country music can be traced back to his growing up on a small Kansas dirt farm. Tom was the youngest of seven children. His father was a storyteller (as his father was, and his father before him). Tom's father and mother both worked hard to keep their family fed. At the end of a long day, his father would sit next to the old coal-burning stove and tell stories about growing up in the coalfields of southeast Kansas, and of his many adventures in life. Tom learned the art of storytelling at an early age in life, and it can be heard in the stories and songs he writes today. Tom has traveled across every state in the USA but two... Alaska and Hawaii. When asked why he hasn't visited those states yet, Tom just smiles and says: "I always leave the best for last, and my life is far from over." Tom has looked down upon this old earth from the top of the Rocky Mountains. He has watched the sun rise and set over two oceans. He has traveled through the hot desert and walked upon the frozen ponds of the northland, but he has always returned to Kansas... the place where he hangs his hat. Tom Tripp is the proud parent of 4 grown children , Jason , Chris , Nicole and Gina and a Grandfather of 4.
Song Info
Genre
Country Cover Songs
Charts
Peak #229
Peak in subgenre #19
Author
Words By Frederic E. Weatherly
Rights
Traditional
Uploaded
March 03, 2005
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.7 MB 128 kbps 5:07
Story behind the song
Danny Boy is one of over 100 songs composed to the same tune. The author was an English lawyer, Frederic Edward Weatherly (1848-1929), who was also a songwriter and radio entertainer. In 1910 he wrote the words and music for an unsuccessful song he called Danny Boy. In 1912 his sister-in-law in America sent him a tune called the Londonderry Air He immediately noticed that the melody was perfectly fitted to his Danny Boy lyrics, and published a revised version of the song in 1913. As far as is known, Weatherly never set foot in Ireland.
Lyrics
Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen and down the mountain side The summer's gone and all the flowers are dying 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 Yes I'll be there in sunshine or in shadow Oh Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, I love you so But when you come and all the flowers are dying If I am dead, and 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 tho' 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 Oh Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, I love you so
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Rosie Clare
Apr 25, 2008
My Mother use to sing this song in the kitchen of our small family home. I have never read the actual lyrics before and really enjoyed seeing them. You have a nice storytelling voice. Rosie