Danny Boy Chords by Johnny Cash

_ Back about 1918 my father Ray Cash was in the army in France _ _
Along about Armistice Day.
He was one of the proud men to stand inspection by General John J.
Pershing
Less than a year later.
My dad was back on the cotton farm in southwest, Arkansas
And you know the way of life didn't change very fast back home
He rode a horse about 10 miles every Sunday to see a Miss Carrie Rivers _ in those days when?
Everyone in the country either rode a horse or wagon or walked you were probably a stranger if you were
Five miles from home or less maybe
Sometimes life was pretty tough.
So some of the people were tough, too
That's why my dad had a Colt 45 stuck in his belt every Sunday _
The first thing he always did was to lay his pistol on the mantle of the fireplace at Grand Paul Rivers _ _
_ When my parents got married my mother Carrie Rivers was 16
After that, it wasn't long till that he wasn't considered a stranger so
He made friends with most everybody around that it tells about an Irish immigrant
_ On a railroad where he worked the cotton belt line who never stopped talking about
Going back to Dublin one of the first stories I ever remember
My dad telling was one that the Irish immigrant told him and according to that particular source of information
There was this boy named Daniel McKinney working in the fields one morning and across the fields came a sweetheart Rosalie She came
crying with tears in her eyes
_ Later someone put down into a [G] song some of the things that Rosalie told Daniel
She said Daniel
There's a bloody war a region and I've come to tell you that there I want me to fight
Go fight for Ireland, but come back to me Daniel.
I'll be waiting Oh Danny boy _ the _ pipes
the pipes [C] are calling _ _ _ _ _ [G] from Glen to Glen _ _ and down [A] the _ [D] _ mountainside _ _
_ _ _ the summers [G] gone _ _ and
all the
[D] [C] Roses fallen _ _ _ _ _
It's [G] you it's you _ [D] must go
_ And [G] I must buy
_ _ _ _ But come ye back
_ [C] when _ summers [G] in the meadow _ _ _ _ or when the _ _
Valley [A] is hush _ and [D] white with snow _ _ _ _ _ _
I'll [G] be _ _ here [C] And sunshine
_ _ [G] or in shadow _
_ _ _ _ _ I'll be here _ Oh [C] Danny boy
_ [D]
I'll miss [G] you so
_ but _
_ [D] _ [Gm] _ [Ebm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
if you fall _ _ as
all the flowers [Eb] are fallen _ _ _ _ _ and
[Bb] if you're dead _ _ [C] as
Dead you [F] well, maybe
_ _ I'll _ _ _ [Bb] come and find The _ place
Where [Eb] you are alive _ _ _ _ and [Bb] kneel and say
[Dm]
and [F] I'll be
[Bb] there for thee
_ _ _ _ But come ye _ back
When [Eb] _
summers in [Bb] the meadow _ _ _ _ _ or when the _ _
_ [C] Valley's hush and [F] white with snow _ _ _ _ _
I'll [Bb] be _ _ _ here And [Eb] _ sunshine
_ [Bb] or in shadow _ _ _ _ _ Oh Danny boy
_ [Gm] Oh Danny [Eb] boy _
_ [F] I'll
love [Bb] you so _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _