Percy Grainger 'Irish Tune' - Unaccompanied Choral Version

Percy Grainger arranged this traditional folk melody in several different ways, giving it the title "Irish Tune from County Derry," though it is better known as "Danny Boy" or the "Londonderry Air." Here is Grainger's wordless choral version, as performed at the Last Night of the Henry Wood Proms 1988 in London's Royal Albert Hall by the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus under Andrew Davis's direction.

[tonybarde]

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 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,
It's 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,
You'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!

We shall remember Easter Week of 1916

[ReyelBraz]

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