Danny Boy

Roy Orbison "Dany Boy" is the same only in the second part of the song whereas the first part and the third part is from somewhere else!

So additional credits or sources must be cited on this and the Roy Orbison version at least, I believe, should have a separate classification in the general set-up of the song we have.

Check the videos where it seems a more "complete" story is being told.

Going to lyrics, we discover this addition intro

The valley is hushed

The flowers are all dying

The meadow is white with the winter snow

Lord as I stand at the place where daddies lying

I say a silent prayer and somehow I know

He hears me there, though soft I tread above him

So now he sleeps in peace

His danny boy’s come home

THEN it goes to the traditional part

................ the pipes the pipe are calling

From glen to glen and down the moutainside

The summers gone and all the leaves are falling

Its you, it’s you must go and I must bide

O come ye back when the sun shines on the meadow

Or when the valley’s hushed and white with snow

For I’ll be here in sunshine or in shadow

Oh danny boy, oh danny boy I love you so

BUT THEN AGAIN, we revert to lyrics not found in the general "Danny Boy" versions

Here are the new lyrics at the end of the Roy Orbison song:

I close my eyes and still I can see

Him standing there on the hill

Tears filled his eyes as he waved goodbye to me

I can’t forget, I guess I never will

He said, the valley is hushed

The flowers are all dying

The meadow is white with the winter snow

Come find the place

Where you know that I’ll be lying

Say a silent prayer

So I’ll know