How to Play Oh Danny Boy on the Harmonica

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Ok so after what feels like an eternity here I am, finally, with my next tutorial... but THIS TIME I am using a real diatonic harmonica. That's right people, after copious complaints about the fake synthy sounding harmonica I had been using up to this point (even though it was a sampled electronic version of a Hohner Marine Band harmonica, but let's not split hairs) I decided to point the bullet, or in this case the harmonica, and give the people more than cake!
So yeah, that's one of the reasons why it took so long to make this one, because while I am a "player" I am not a "performer" and I don't even want to begin explaining how many times I had to play this darn song while recording it before I arrived at this finished product. I don't know what it is. When I'm alone and playing with no one listening, I'm pretty ok... but put a person or a mic in front of me and BAM. I am not so good any more. Of course performing well comes with practice, so maybe as I continue to make these tutorials this way I will be able to make them better and quicker. But at this stage no promises.
So now, a little bit about this song and its history (thanks wikipedia!) In 1910, in Bath, Somerset, the English lawyer and lyricist Frederic Weatherly initially wrote the words to "Danny Boy" to a tune other than "Londonderry Air". After his Irish-born sister-in-law Margaret Enright Weatherly (known as Jess) in the United States sent him a copy of "Londonderry Air" in 1913 (an alternative version of the story has her singing the air to him in 1912 with different lyrics), Weatherly modified the lyrics of "Danny Boy" to fit the rhyme and meter of "Londonderry Air".
Weatherly gave the song to the vocalist Elsie Griffin, who made it one of the most popular songs of the new century. In 1915, Ernestine Schumann-Heink produced the first recording of "Danny Boy".
Jane Ross of Limavady is credited with collecting the melody of "Londonderry Air" in the mid-19th century from a musician she encountered.
Personally I've never even heard of Londonderry Air, but if you're looking for a harmonica lesson on how to play Londonderry Air then this is the tutorial for you I guess!
The original lyrics by Frederick E. Weatherly wen something like this.

Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side.
The summer's gone, and all the roses falling,
It's you, It's you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow,
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow,
It's I'll be there in sunshine or in shadow,—
Oh, Danny boy, Oh Danny boy, I love you so!

But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
Ye'll come and find the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say an Avé there for me.
And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,
And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be,
For you will bend
and tell me that you love me,
And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me!

That sounds about right.
As for what the lyrics actually mean you can read more about this classic song by visiting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Boy
Now as for the various other things in this tutorial, the crazy gold bathing Leprechaun was drawn by me. That's right, I drew that. It was borrowed from my story The Majestic Unicorn which for the curious among you can be read hear https://kertoons.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-majestic-unicorn.html If enough people ask me, maybe I'll make a video based on it one day. I would have done it already but no one seems to like my songs/stories, they just want me for my tutorials.
The wonderful green clover patch was pulled from Timothy Dykes on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/@timothycdykes
I drew the rainbow myself too. The special effects. Those were me, with a little help from Adobe Audition and the audio, all recorded by me on Logic Pro X and using my snow ball blue, for the most part... well, for the some part... can't remember what the name of my other mic is. Anyway, if you are the impatient type and can't wait, and I mean really can't actually wait for reals, until my next video comes out then don't forget, you can check out my TABS page, there's a link in the description below, and until next time stay tuned.
https://tunebasics.blogspot.com/2019/09/harmonica-tabs.html
See what I did there? ;)