Londonderry Air

This tune keeps on coming up! Adrian played it when we arrived at the church for the wedding. It was set to lovely words based on Psalm 130 for the song we sang on Sunday when Louise and Tom were with us. A children's choir sang it from Carrickfergus Castle on TV at the Last Night of the Proms. They were quite young and short of breath and inevitably their top note was not great. It is not easy to sing if you start too high. In the hymnbook it is set to "I cannot tell why he, whom angels worship, should set his love upon the sons of men" and "O brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother" which actually should go to the tune by Parry. It is often sung to "I would be true". My google search on "O Danny boy" revealed that the words and tune are not that old or traditional! I sang it to words specially composed as Barry's farewell at York library and that was much appreciated.