Danny Boy (Londonderry Air), Arr. Joseph Flummerfelt | Dallas Chamber Choir

The English lawyer, Frederic Edward Weatherly (1848-1929) wrote the text to "Danny Boy" in 1910 and set it to the now famous tune (Londonderry Air) two years later, thanks to his sister-in-law. (The original air is believed by some to date back to Rory Dall O'Cahan, an Irish harpist who lived in Scotland in the late 17th century. -- "Danny Boy: The real story behind the beloved Irish ballad" by Tom Deignan. 11 March 2020.)

Danny Boy (Londonderry Air), Arr. Joseph Flummerfelt (Live)
Dallas Chamber Choir, "Blessed Are They: Thanksgiving & Homecoming" concert series
Jon L. Culpepper, Founding Artistic Director & Conductor

Video: Tony Antoneo Hernandez
Audio: Bradley Prakope

Danny Boy [Frederic Edward Weatherly, 1848-1929]

O Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side.
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 here in sunshine or in shadow
O Danny Boy, O 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.