Sally Gardens (reel)
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
in Gaelic "Na Garranta Sailí".<br> This is a well known reel.<br> This is not related to the song also known as "The Sally Gardens".<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> It has been recorded by Grey Larsen, Mick Moloney, Eugene O’Donnell,<br> Michael Cooney, James Galway And The Chieftains, Planxty and others.<br> I don't remember where I learned it.<br>
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