"Danny Boy" ukulele cover

Strangely new song, to me. It is a ghost song, or a *potential* ghost song. Camera phone does some messed up things.

I was nervous about the cemetery gates closing on me that late in the day, and that's just what happened. The security guys were nice, though...

"O Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountainside
The sun is gone and all the roses fallen
It's you must go, and I who must abide.

But come ye back when sun is on the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
It's here I'll be 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
If I am dead, as dead I well may be
You'll come and find the place where I am lying
Then kneel and say an ave there for me

And I shall hear though soft your tread above me
And all my grave will warm and sweeter be
For you will bend and tell me that you love me
Then I shall sleep in peace until you come to me."

Category:

Music

Tags:

• irish
• folk
• song
• danny
• boy
• ukulele
• cover
• ireland
• singing
• acoustic
• dublin
• cemetery

[lasquid]

Such a sad song.  Cemetery looks beautiful.

[Pinkenian]

i like the faster than usual tempo, esp for uke.

i cared for a former NYC police chief who could sing this at the top of his lungs long after he could carry on much of a conversation with words.