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Danny Boy

(Frederic E. Weatherly)


Copyright BMI

Original by Ernestine Schumann-Heink in 1915


Home recordings - April 1959 - Goethestrasse, Bad Nauheim - Germany

OPA5 8201 (Nr 1)
August 1984 LP RCA CPM6 5172-2 A Golden Celebration

(Nr 2)
December 1, 1999 CD FTD 74321 72666-2 Elvis In A Private Moment - Only the beginning - Unreleased

Informal rehearsals - "Elvis" NBC TV Special - June 24-25, 1968 - NBC Dressing Room - Burbank

June 25, 10 am-12 pm

CPA5 5117
March 3, 1999 CD FTD 74321 672299 2 Burbank 68 - The NBC-TV Comeback Special


RCA studio session - February 2-8, 11-12, 1976 - The Jungle Room, Graceland - Memphis

February 5, 9-12 pm, 12:30 pm-3:30 am, 4-7 am, 7:30-10:30 am, 11 am-2 pm

FWA5 0673-10
May 1976 LP RCA APL 1 1506 From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee
Outtakes:
Takes 6, 7, 8 and 9: October 2012 CD FTD 506020-975046 From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee
Take 8: April 1, 2000 CD FTD 74321 74931-2 CD The Jungle Room Sessions
Take 9: July 29, 1997 CD RCA 07863-67469-2 Platinum A Life In Music





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Version 4   



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 roses dying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bye


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 if he come and all the roses dying
And I am dead, as dead I well may be
He'll come here and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say an ava there for me


And I shall feel, oh soft you tread above me
And then my grave will richer, sweeter be
For you will bend and tell me that you love me
And I shall rest in peace until you come to me
(Oh Danny boy I love you so)




Oh danny (c) boy the pipes the (c7) pipes are cal(f)ling
(dm)from (g7)glen to (c)glen and (am)down the mountain (dm)side
(g7) the summer's (c)gone and (c7) all the roses (f) dying
tis you tis (c) you must (dm) go and (g7)I must (c)bide
* But (cdim) come (g7) ye (c)back when (em)summer's in the (c)meadow
  or (cdim)when (g7)the (am)valley's (f)hused and (em)white with (dm)snow
  (g7)tis I'll be (c7)there in (f)sunshine or in (c)shaw(am)dow
  oh (fm)danny (c)boy, oh (am)danny boy I (g7)love you (c)so
And 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 tho' soft you tread above me
and all my grave will warmer sweeter be
if you will bend and tell me that you love me

then I shall rest in peace until you come to me