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