BIO: The beloved lyrics for "Danny Boy" (Londonderry Air) were written by a gentleman in England who had an interest in Irish music but who apparently never set foot in Ireland. In 1910 English lyricist, Frederick WEATHERLY (1848-1929) attached his beautiful lyrics to another tune that proved to be an unsuccessful undertaking. Weatherly was a translator of opera and published large quantities of verse and children's books during his lifetime. His "Roses of Picardy," was his most commercially successful ballad during the Great War and made its writer a small fortune. Edward BUNTING (1773-1843) is credited for rescuing the traditional harp music of Ireland. His career began in 1792 when he was hired to write down tunes performed at the Belfast Harp Festival. The tune "A Young Man's Dream" in his collection of ancient Irish music in 1796 seems to be a close match musicality to that of "Danny Boy." A Ms. Jane ROSS from Limavady, Co. Londonderry claimed to have copied down the tune from a blind piper, possibly blind Jimmy McCURRY, who was active in Limavaday at that time. "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 leaves are falling, Tis you, Tis you must go and I must bide. But come ye back, when summer's in the meadow, And the valley's hushed and white as 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 be dead, as dead I well may be. Then come and find the place where I am lying, And kneel and say an Ave there for me. And I shall hear, though soft your tread above me, And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be. And you shall bend, and tell me that you love me, And I shall rest in peace until you come to me.