Sally Gardens (slow air)
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
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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 would not agree.
Down by the flowing river my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now I'm full of tears.
in Gaelic "Na Garranta Sailí".<br> It is an "old" song, well known in South Leinster, which was set to the tune.<br> William Butler Yeats rewrote the lyrics and published them in 1889.<br> Regarding the poem by Yeats called "An Old Song re-Sung" and later called<br> "Down by the Salley Gardens". It was subsequently set to music by<br> Herbert Hughes to the traditional air "The Moorlough Shore" (also known as<br> "The Maids of Mourne Shore") in 1909.<br> This is not related to the well known reel also known as "The Sally Gardens".<br> <br> Salley or sally comes from the Latin name ‘salix’ or ‘salyx’, meaning willow<br> (‘aspirin’, or acetylsalicylic acid, was developed from an investigation<br> of the folk remedy of chewing willow shoots to relieve pain), or from the<br> Gaelic word for the plant, "sailleach” (which itself may have been derived<br> from the Latin). The Salley Gardens therefore simply means willow gardens<br> which were kept for medicinal purposes near villages and towns.<br> <br> It has been recorded by Peter Pears, John McCormack, Alfred Deller,<br> Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy, James Galway and many others.<br> I don't remember from whom I learned it.<br>
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