Danny came over to old New York   From Bandon town in the county Cork   He got a room on the avenue in Woodside Queens   And a job off the books doin' demolition   He was kind of different than everyone else   Oh he liked to hang out all by himself   Didn't hit those bars in Sunnyside Queens   Went straight into the Village to check out the scene     One day on the job the foreman said   "Hey Danny Boy we think you're a fag   With your ponytail and that ring in your ear   Hey, we don't need no homos foulin' up the air"   Danny just smiled and picked up a 2 by 4   And he split that jerk from his jaw to his ear   Said "you can stick your job where the sun don't shine   But you're never gonna stop me bein' what I am, boy!"     Then he met a man down in Sheridan Square   They moved in together for a couple of years   Said it was the happiest he'd ever been   Doin' what he wanted and livin' his dream   We used to drink together down on Avenue B   One gray dawn he confessed to me   "Love's the only thing that makes the world go round   And I'm never gonna see another sunset over sweet Bandon town"     Last time I saw Dan he was in a hospital bed   Two tubes hangin' out the nose of his head   But he smiled at me with them stone blue eyes   And he said, "hey, how you doin', guy?   I'm history 'round here in a couple of weeks   But I did what I wanted - I got no regrets   So, when you think of me crack a beer and smile   Hey, life's a bitch and then you die"     Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are callin'   From glen to glen, and down the mountainside   The summer's gone and all the flowers are dyin'   'Tis you, 'tis you, must go and I must bide   But come you back when summer's in the meadow   Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow   'Tis I'll be there in sunshine or in shadow   Oh Danny Boy, Oh Danny Boy, I love you so   I love you so, Danny Boy, I love you so