Danny Boy

Danny came over to old New York
 From Bandon town in the county Cork
 He got a room on the avenue in Woodside Queens
 And a job off the books doin' demolition
 He was kind of different than everyone else
 Oh, he liked to hang out all by himself
 Didn't hit those bars in Sunnyside Queens
 Went straight into the Village to check out the scene
 One day on the job the foreman said
 "Hey Danny Boy, we think you're a fag
 With your ponytail and that ring in your ear
 Hey, we don't need no homos foulin' up the air"
 Danny just smiled and picked up a 2 by 4
 And he split that jerk from his jaw to his ear
 Said, "You can stick your job where the sun don't shine
 But you're never gonna stop me bein' what I am, boy"
 Then he met a man down in Sheridan Square
 They moved in together for a couple of years
 Said, it was the happiest he'd ever been
 Doin' what he wanted and livin' his dream
 We used to drink together down on Avenue B
 One gray dawn he confessed to me
 "Love's the only thing that makes the world go 'round
 And I'm never gonna see another sunset over sweet Bandon town"
 Last time I saw Dan, he was in a hospital bed
 Two tubes hangin' out the nose of his head
 But he smiled at me with them stone blue eyes
 And he said, "Hey, how you doin' guy?
 I'm history 'round here in a couple of weeks
 But I did what I wanted, I got no regrets
 So, when you think of me, crack a beer and smile
 Hey, life's a bitch and then you die"
 Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are callin'
 From glen to glen and down the mountainside
 The summer's gone and all the flowers are dyin'
 'Tis you, 'tis you, must go and I must bide
 But come you back when summer's in the meadow
 Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
 'Tis I'll be there in sunshine or in shadow
 Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so
 I love you so, Danny boy, I love you so