black 47
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 be	  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