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Danny Boy free harmonica lesson and tabs

Hello! Today's harmonica lesson is on Danny Boy on C diatonic harmonica lesson. Danny Boy is a ballad written by Frederic Weatherly in 1913, and set to the traditional Irish melody of Londonderry Air.



Here are the free tabs:


-3 4 -4 5 -4 5 -6 6 5 -4 4 -3//

Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are ca-all-ing

4 5 -5 6 -6 6 5 4 5 -4

From glen to glen, and down the mountain side

-3 4 -4 5 -4 5 -6 6 5 -4 4 -3//

The summer's gone, and all the roses fa-a-lling

4 4 -4 5 -5 5 -4 4 -4 4

It's you, it's you must go and I must bide

6 -6 -7 7 -7 -7 -6 6 -6 6 5 4

But come ye back when summer's in the me-ea-dow

6 -6 -7 7 -7 -7 -6 6 5 -4

Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow

6 6 6 8 -8 -8 7 -6 7 6 5 4

It's I'll be here in sunshine or in sha-a-dow

-3 4 -4 5 -6 6 5 -4 4 -3// -3 4

Oh, Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.


But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying

If I am dead, as dead I well may be

You'll come and find the place where I am lying

And kneel and say an Ave there for me


And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me

And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be

For you will bend and tell me that you love me

And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me.


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