Larmes aux yeux.

After a late and rum-filled night, I was feeling tired and emotional today.

Then we had to sing Danny Boy.

Now, maybe I've been hiding under a rock all my life, but even though I know this song is hugely famous, I don't remember ever actually hearing it before. Well, I managed to get about half way through before my voice started wobbling and my eyes started welling up.

Thinking none of my French fellow choristers would understand the slightly Irishy words (like "ye" and "glen"), I got a grip (mouthing the rest of the song, thinking of stupid things that had nothing to do with love or separation or death)... and at the end of the song I looked around and... all the girls were fanning their teary eyes and shyly declaring how moving they found it! (Of course that set me off again.)

We sang it beautifully, by the way. :)