The Queen's Six - Danny boy (Arr. Alexander L'Estrange) Lyrics

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 are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
He'll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and sing an ave there for me.

And I shall hear tho' soft you tread above me,
And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be,
And you will bend and tell me that you love me,
And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me.

Ireland (text by Frederic Weatherly), arr. Alexander L'Estrange