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Composer | Traditional | ||
Instrumentation | Horn (F), piano or organ or guitar | ||
Sheet central | Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) (73 sheet music) | ||
Style | Song | ||
Arranger | Dewagtere, Bernard (1958 - ) | ||
Date | 1913 | ||
Copyright | Copyright © Dewagtere, Bernard | ||
Other title | Traditional Irish Ballad (1913) | ||
Added by bernard-dewagtere, 06 Nov 2011
"Danny Boy" was written by the English lawyer and
lyricist Frederick Weatherly in 1910. Although the
lyrics were originally written for a different tune,
Weatherly's sister modified them, in 1913, to fit
"Londonderry Air" (Irish diaspora anthem : irish
emigrants and their descendants in countries such as
the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada,
Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, Mexico, South
Africa, Brazil and states of the Caribbean and
continental Europe. The diaspora, maximally
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