Glad I returned to this thread after reading the first entries a fortnight ago, not just because of Big Mick's wonderfully lyrical but thoughful "rambling", but also for that contribution from jeffp. God help us, I think I'll learn it (first verse and third, probably; hope that would be all right), though I'd be very, very careful where I chose to sing it. The comic possibilities of "miss that high note" are very, very tempting. With regard to Weatherley's words, well, they're very much of their time, and the main reason I decline to sing them is that line about a grave, of all places, being warmer and sweeter. No, no, never, never, never. John McCormack's "Oh, Mary Dear" is better, dealing with similar material, but is still pretty maudlin. The words posted on 8th March are the best, in my own view anyway, of maybe a dozen sets made for this air (and many people have been quite happy when these are sung when "Danny Boy" is requested, with a short introduction about finding them in a late C19th/early C20th music book and a hope that people might like to hear these less familiar words). Anyone know anything of W G Rothery, who made this version? He certainly also translated/made lyrical versions of many European Folk Songs.