G'day all,

Yeah, Danny Boy seems to fit today's definition of an irish song. As I said yesterday on another thread (ASCAP ...&c), the author, Fred. E. Weatherly was an Oxford tutor, author of books on logic and a Bristol lawyer ... as well as sometime lyric writer. Danny Boy, to a tune collected in Derry by Miss J. Ross of Limavardy, was composed in 1911 and flopped in England.

He sent a copy to his (~sister?) in American in 1913 and it succeeded beyond belief ... no comment!

Regard(les)s,

Bob Bolton