O Danny Boy, The pipes, the pipes are calling!
  • donr
    Posts: 971
    Is this song set to an old hymn tone?
    OCP has has published this as "O Loving God" by Paulette McCoy for funeral masses.

    When I heard it, it just sounded odd to me.
  • ContraBombarde
    Posts: 471
    Yes, it is that O Danny Boy ditty. I have had numerous requests for it. I just tell them I don't have the music for it. I believe the tune they use is Londonderry Air
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  • JDE
    Posts: 588
    It's also been "repurposed" as a "Celtic Song of Farewell," if I recall correctly, to circumvent the ban on "O Danny Boy."

    "May flights of Annnnnnnngggellls lead you into Parrrrradiiiiissee . . . . "
  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,509
    Yes, the Song of Farewell, which is lyrically an ok paraphrase of In Paradisum, is published by WLP if I'm not mistaken. It can get you out of a jam, when the family is insisting like crazy on Danny Boy.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU
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  • JDE
    Posts: 588
    And just try not to hear the tune name as "London Derrière."

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