Danny came over to old New York 

From Bandon town in the county Cork 

He got a room on the avenue in Woodside Queens 

And a job off the books doin' demolition 

He was kind of different than everyone else 

Oh he liked to hang out all by himself 

Didn't hit those bars in Sunnyside Queens 

Went straight into the Village to check out the scene 



One day on the job the foreman said 

"Hey Danny Boy we think you're a fag 

With your ponytail and that ring in your ear 

Hey, we don't need no homos foulin' up the air" 

Danny just smiled and picked up a 2 by 4 

And he split that jerk from his jaw to his ear 

Said "you can stick your job where the sun don't shine 

But you're never gonna stop me bein' what I am, boy!" 



Then he met a man down in Sheridan Square 

They moved in together for a couple of years 

Said it was the happiest he'd ever been 

Doin' what he wanted and livin' his dream 

We used to drink together down on Avenue B 

One gray dawn he confessed to me 

"Love's the only thing that makes the world go round 

And I'm never gonna see another sunset over sweet Bandon town" 



Last time I saw Dan he was in a hospital bed 

Two tubes hangin' out the nose of his head 

But he smiled at me with them stone blue eyes 

And he said, "hey, how you doin', guy? 

I'm history 'round here in a couple of weeks 

But I did what I wanted - I got no regrets 

So, when you think of me crack a beer and smile 

Hey, life's a bitch and then you die" 



Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are callin' 

From glen to glen, and down the mountainside 

The summer's gone and all the flowers are dyin' 

'Tis you, 'tis you, must go and I must bide 

But come you back when summer's in the meadow 

Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow 

'Tis I'll be there in sunshine or in shadow 

Oh Danny Boy, Oh Danny Boy, I love you so 

I love you so, Danny Boy, I love you so