Johnny Cash

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".

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