Danny Boy-Black 47

[ti:Danny Boy] [ar:Black 47] [al:Home Of The Brave] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Danny Boy - Black 47 [01:05.86]Danny came over to old New York [01:07.53] [01:08.32]From Bandon town in the county Cork [01:10.50]He got a room on the avenue in Woodside Queens [01:12.76] [01:13.51]And a job off the books doin' demolition [01:15.06] [01:15.91]He was kind of different than everyone else [01:18.21]Oh he liked to hang out all by himself [01:20.43] [01:20.97]Didn't hit those bars in Sunnyside Queens [01:22.81] [01:23.44]Went straight into the Village to check out the scene [01:26.14] [01:41.20]One day on the job the foreman said [01:43.36] [01:44.06]"Hey Danny Boy we think you're a fag [01:46.62]With your ponytail and that ring in your ear [01:48.71]Hey we don't need no homos foulin' up the air" [01:51.44] [01:51.97]Danny just smiled and picked up a 2 by 4 [01:54.39]And he split that jerk from his jaw to his ear [01:56.58]Said "You can stick your job where the sun don't shine [01:59.44]But you're never gonna stop me bein' what I am boy" [02:02.08] [02:37.54]Then he met a man down in Sheridan Square [02:40.21]They moved in together for a couple of years [02:42.29] [02:42.98]Said it was the happiest he'd ever been [02:45.12]Doin' what he wanted and livin' his dream [02:47.11] [02:47.77]We used to drink together down on Avenue B [02:49.84] [02:50.39]One gray dawn he confessed to me [02:52.05] [02:52.79]"Love's the only thing that makes the world go 'round [02:55.47]And I'm never gonna see another sunset over sweet Bandon town" [02:59.74] [03:10.96]Last time I saw Dan he was in a hospital bed [03:13.62]Two tubes hangin' out the nose of his head [03:15.54] [03:16.35]But he smiled at me with them stone blue eyes [03:18.70]And he said "Hey how you doin' guy [03:20.24] [03:20.89]I'm history 'round here in a couple of weeks [03:23.52]But I did what I wanted I got no regrets [03:26.02]So when you think of me crack a beer and smile [03:28.25] [03:29.83]Hey life's a b**ch and then you die" [03:31.77] [03:33.41]Oh Danny boy the pipes the pipes are callin' [03:40.47] [03:44.07]From glen to glen and down the mountainside [03:49.89] [03:54.11]The summer's gone and all the flowers are dyin' [04:00.97] [04:04.63]'Tis you 'tis you must go and I must bide [04:10.96] [04:14.36]But come you back when summer's in the meadow [04:21.27] [04:24.81]Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow [04:31.47] [04:34.78]'Tis I'll be there in sunshine or in shadow [04:42.07] [04:45.60]Oh Danny boy oh Danny boy I love you so [04:54.43] [04:58.77]I love you so Danny boy I love you so