Name: The Salley Gardens
Channel: A traditional Irish tune
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Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Alternative

Author

A traditional Irish tune

Rights

Patrick T. Connolly

Uploaded

July 25, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.5 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

This is traditional Irish tune that W B Yeats (1865-1939) put words to.
[salley - willow]

Maggie Brady's Page at;
http://www.radford.edu/~mbrady/Galway1.htm
writes;
The poem, Down By the Sally Gardens, (1889) was "an ' Old Country love song'" from the notes by Timothy Webb in W.B Yeats Selected Poems. Yeats heard the song and transcribed it into a poem.

Lyrics

It was down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the Salley Gardens with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree.

In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take love easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.