Down by the Salley gardens (Traditional)

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• CPDL #5168:

Editor: Anne Dubrofsky (added 2003-05-29).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 84 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: arr. Herbert Hughes

General Information

Title: Down by the Sally Gardens
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional)
Lyricist: William Butler Yeats

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Baritone solo

Genre: Secular, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published:

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Original text and translations

English text

1.
Down by the sally 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.

2.
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 life easy,
As the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish,
And now am full of tears.