Johnny Cash - Danny Boy guitar chord
DANNY BOY
JOHNNY CASH
AMERICAN IV: THE MAN COMES AROUND
This version is sung with a pipe organ. Johnny recorded it in a Cathedral.
The song "You'll Never Walk Alone" was recorded at the same time, and is
included in the Unearthed Box Set. It was a potential cut for this album.
Johnny preferred Danny Boy for the finished product. Him and Rick Rubin talked
about recording a full album in a Cathedral using the pipe organ, but they
never did so.
Key of "A"
Capo 2 G
CHORDS
Cmaj9: 020010
INTRO: INSTRUMENTALLY
G G7 C G Em
Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling.
D7 Am7 D7 G Em Am7 D7 G D7
Oh Dan ny Boy,..oh Danny Boy, ..I love you so.
VERSE ONE
G Bm G G7 C Cmaj9-Am7
Oh Danny Boy,...the pipes,...the pipes are calling
G Bm Em Em7 A A7-D7
From glen to glen....and down...the mountain side
G Bm G G7
The summer's gone....and all...the leaves are
C Cmaj9 Am7
falling
G Bm Am7 D7 G
It's you, It's you....must go....and I must bide
G D D7 G C G Am7-D7
But,come ye back..when summer's...in the meadow
Am7 D7 Em C Em A A7- D7
Or when the valley's..iced....and white with snow
G G7 C G Em
I'll be here....in sunshine...or in shadows
Em G Em Am7 D7 G
Oh Dan-ny Boy,..oh Danny Boy, .I love you so.
VERSE TWO
G Bm G G7
But when you come....if all....the flowers are
C Cmaj9 Am7
falling
G Bm Em Em7 A A7-D7
If I am dead,...and dead...I well may be
G Bm G G7
You'll come and find....the place....where I am
C Cmaj9 Am7
lying
G Bm Am7 D7 G
And kneel and say....an Ave.....over me
G D D7 G C G
And I shall hear the soft...you tread a-bove
Am7 D7
me
Am7 D7 Em C Em A A7-D7
And all my grave..will warmer....sweeter be
G G7 C G Em
And you come....and tell me...that you love me.
G Em Am7 D7 G
And I shall sleep...in peace...un-til you....come to me
OUTRO: Repeat Intro
ABOUT THE SONG:
The music for this song is an old Irish tune, originally
called "Londonderry Air". There are other lyrics written
for this melody, also. The lyrics for "Danny Boy" were
written by English poet Frederick E. Weatherly in 1910.
They were set to this Irish melody when his sister played
him the song "Londonderry Air". It is ironic how the
lyrics for a traditional Irish tune were written by an
English man, but it was written about an Irish man.
On the "Orange Blossom Special" recording of this song,
Johnny says before singing the song, that it was written
about a young man who's girlfriend comes to him and tells
him that there's a war breaking out and she wanted him to
fight in the war for her. She told him that she'd be waiting.
That's the story about who "Danny" is when the song says "Oh Danny Boy".
