The summer's gone, and all the roses falling, Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are callingįrom glen to glen, and down the mountain side. Jane Ross of Limavady is credited with collecting the melody of "Londonderry Air" in the mid-19th century from a musician she encountered. Ernestine Schumann-Heink produced the first recording of "Danny Boy" in 1915. Weatherly gave the song to the vocalist Elsie Griffin, who made it one of the most popular songs of the new century. Another alternative story is that Frederic did not set the poem to any tune, but that his sister-in-law Margaret Enright Weatherly, who together with her husband Edward were living near Ouray, Colorado at the Neosho mine, set the poem in 1913 to the tune of the "Londonderry Air" which she had heard as a child in California played by her father and other Irish railroad workers. Another alternative version of the story has Jess singing the air to Weatherly in 1912 with different lyrics. An alternative story is that Margaret Weatherly sent him a copy of "Londonderry Air" in 1913, Weatherly modified the lyrics of "Danny Boy" to fit its rhyme and meter. In 1910, in Bath, Somerset, the English lawyer and lyricist Frederic Weatherly initially wrote the words to "Danny Boy" to a tune other than "Londonderry Air". 1940 recording by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra on RCA Bluebird, B-10612-B
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