DANNY BOY
JOHNNY CASH
AMERICAN IV: THE MAN COMES AROUND

This version is sung with a pipe organ.  Johnny recorded it in a Cathedral.  
The song "You'll Never Walk Alone" was recorded at the same time, and is 
included in the Unearthed Box Set.  It was a potential cut for this album.  
Johnny preferred Danny Boy for the finished product.  Him and Rick Rubin talked
about recording a full album in a Cathedral using the pipe organ, but they 
never did so.

Key of "A"
Capo 2 G

CHORDS
Cmaj9: 020010


INTRO: INSTRUMENTALLY

         G        G7         C         G        Em
Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling.

D7 Am7 D7  G     Em         Am7      D7       G  D7 
Oh Dan ny  Boy,..oh  Danny  Boy, ..I love you so.


VERSE ONE

         G   Bm      G    G7               C      Cmaj9-Am7
Oh Danny Boy,...the pipes,...the pipes are calling

             G    Bm     Em          Em7      A  A7-D7     
From glen to glen....and down...the mountain side

             G    Bm     G         G7            
The summer's gone....and all...the leaves are 

C       Cmaj9 Am7
falling

               G   Bm        Am7     D7     G 
It's you, It's you....must go....and I must bide


G   D    D7  G           C                G     Am7-D7
But,come ye  back..when summer's...in the meadow

   Am7  D7  Em        C    Em                A   A7- D7
Or when the valley's..iced....and white with snow

          G    G7     C                G     Em         
I'll  be  here....in sunshine...or in shadows

Em          G     Em         Am7     D7       G 
Oh  Dan-ny  Boy,..oh  Danny  Boy, .I love you so.




VERSE TWO

             G    Bm    G   G7                  
But when you come....if all....the flowers are 

C       Cmaj9 Am7
falling

        G    Bm     Em       Em7        A  A7-D7
If I am dead,...and dead...I well  may  be

                G    Bm     G     G7                    
You'll come and find....the place....where I am 

C     Cmaj9 Am7
lying

              G   Bm    Am7  D7      G
And kneel and say....an Ave.....over me


G    D  D7    G        C                   G              
And  I  shall hear the soft...you tread a-bove 

Am7 D7
me

    Am7 D7  Em          C      Em         A  A7-D7  
And all my  grave..will warmer....sweeter be

        G    G7     C                       G  Em          
And you come....and tell me...that you love me.

            G          Em         Am7     D7         G    
And I shall sleep...in peace...un-til you....come to me

OUTRO: Repeat Intro


ABOUT THE SONG:
The music for this song is an old Irish tune, originally
called "Londonderry Air".  There are other lyrics written
for this melody, also.  The lyrics for "Danny Boy" were
written by English poet Frederick E. Weatherly in 1910.
They were set to this Irish melody when his sister played
him the song "Londonderry Air". It is ironic how the
lyrics for a traditional Irish tune were written by an
English man, but it was written about an Irish man.

On the "Orange Blossom Special" recording of this song,
Johnny says before singing the song, that it was written
about a young man who's girlfriend comes to him and tells
him that there's a war breaking out and she wanted him to 
fight in the war for her. She told him that she'd be waiting. 
That's the story about who "Danny" is when the song says "Oh Danny Boy".