Danny BOy is a beautiful song I love singing it... but for many its been spoilt by memories of drunks on a friday night tenor warbling trying to scrape to the high note!

Anyway its a compromise from lots of other beautiful Irish songs which wouldnt have been PC.

I took an Irish friend to Warwich festival and she was ok until the crowd started on Rule Britannia. Until then she thought we were rather staid lot! She felt a little awkward surrounded by Brits as I did in Ireland recently in the midst of a crowd of people singing very rebel songs. Usually it doesnt bother me at all.

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