Down By The Salley Gardens For Singers & Instrumentalists
Also, have a look at this (THE MAID OF MOURNE SHORE), especially the footnote. My race is run beneath the sun. A garden full of willows. This is probably the best known example. Green Bushes - a brisk little song that is pretty while being good for breath control training. NICOLETTE MACLEOD Glasgow, UK. It is likely that the lyrics of "Down by the Willow Gardens" are related to the Irish song Wexford Girl, also known as Oxford Girl or The Bloody Miller, which also gave rise to the American song Knoxville Girl. G'day, The story goes that Yeats needed a song for some event like a garden party and wanted to use YOU RAMBLING BOYS OF PLEASURE. It can be found on this video, performed by the Kossoy Sisters. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep is a childhood prayer, now a song to sing and play for your beginners. The Rankin Family – Down by the Sally Gardens Lyrics | Lyrics. Also, one of the shoots of a willow. Even though i'm 70 and the world is getting more restricted! It is close in sound to the Irish word saileach, meaning willow. Since there aren't, as far as I can see, any other discussions about this song, I wonder if I might ask here what interpretations people put on it?
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Have the inside scoop on this song? The melody for Down by the Salley Gardens. Didn't Ian and Sylvia record it that way? Ash Grove - a famous and lovely song from Wales. But I actually had a young singer once beg me for "Down by the Salley Gardens" after she had been introduced to it at a summer Fine Arts Camp. On this page you'll find the piece in seven different keys as lead sheets, and a few different keys for piano as well. It could technically be described as a British song, because at the time, Ireland was being governed from London. Youtube down by the sally gardens. Or maybe I'm just projecting.... From: Stilly River Sage.
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I Gave My Love a Cherry - the "Riddle Song" is very pretty. Tune Req: Maids of the Mountain Shore/Sally Garden (4). I set my mind on a handsome girl who ofttimes did me slight, But my mind was never easy till my darling were in my sight.
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Any other Yeats put to (folk)m usic? Acacias of several species are called 'wattles' in the UK and Australia. The lyrics of the song are as follows: You rambling boys of pleasure, give ear to those few lines I write, Although I'm a rover, and in roving I take great delight. And now I moan, and now I holler.
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My love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder. I have the impression that willow is more likely to be called withy rather than sally. Irish villagers cultivated willow plantations to primarily use flexible branches of the trees for the thatched roofs of their homes and naturally, willow gardens were favorite places for young lovers to meet. Sure I wish I was in Dublin town, and my true love along with me. Down By the Salley Gardens by William Butler Yeats. The art of setting a poems to music is one of the most challenging of tasks, especially with lyrics a fine as these. On the other hand, it's a song that works without any need for such analysis. Like some of you, I've been playing the piano since early childhood, and have added a few other instruments along the way, plus an interest in arranging and composing music. From: SingsIrish Songs. A very elegant arrangement in several keys, plus new easy arrangements for beginners! Since I've started learning fiddle, one of my favorite pieces is this nice oldie with lyrics by Yeats.
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539/2 Sallee, or sally, a corruption of the English 'sallow' which is applicable to certain willow commonly used for Australian eucalypts and wattles that are supposed to resemble them in habit or foliage. As Yeats rendered it "salley" perhaps we should prefer that. I've seen and heard some bluegrass versions with that title. Jezic, D. P. (1988). A video for this song: Posted in: Individual Songs, March 2012 Irish, East Coast, etc..., March 2013 Celtic influences, March 2014 - Kitchen Party, Celtic, East Coast, March 2015, March 2016 Kitchen Party, BUG Hooley March 2017, March 2019, March 2020 (0 Comments). She laid her snow-white hand. I back it up for modern nomenclature with my Fitter/Blamey picture book. Sally is much more likely to have come from the Latin for willow, salix. In a field by the river my love and I did stand. See here: From: Kaleea. Down by the sally gardens lyrics and chords. The botanical name for the Weeping Willow is IIRC Salix Salix. Visit this page to see some free examples from the book.
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Our English-language readership here on Mudcat is worldwide. Yeats wrote the poem in 1889. Though Hell's now waiting for me. 'Twas there I spied this pretty little girl, and those words to me sure she did say. Kathy Kelly on her album Straight from My Heart (2002). 1932 R. ANDERSON Trees New South Wales 58 Snow Gum or White Sally.
But I being young and foolish, and now I am full of tears. There may be many versions of the song recorded by English musicians. When they found great numbers of acacias, with similar yellow globular flowers, they called all these "wattles" as well... they weren't botanists - just settlers! PS What *are* "salley" gardens? Which my true love did not know. Perhaps the tune is, but the words by Yeats are less than 150 years old... however, it FEELS like a folk song! Yer mudder wears army boots.
As to not need to be specified. Wood, " possibly also Clannad. Soprano Sissel Kyrkjebø on her album Into Paradise (2006). I heard a wise man say, 'Give crowns and pounds and jewels. Ibid., Black known as Sally or Muzzlewood. His knowledge of the working of tradition was very extensive. ) Japanese singer Hitomi Azuma for the ending theme of Fractale. A "sally" or "sallie" is an old Irish word for a willow tree. Anyway, to ponder the original question of this thread: I have always assumed that a "Sally Garden" (a 'willow garden') would be a pleasant green garden along a stream - lined with willows... and a pretty place for dalliance. In a field by the river my lovely girl and I did stand, And leaning on her shoulder I pressed her burning hand. It would take damnable articularity just to be able to say 'damnable articularity'. They noted: A beautiful lyric, from one of the greatest poets of these islands. G'day s&r, My Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary (the 3rd edition, 1997, on my work desk) has sally/sallee as "any of several eucalypts and acacias resembling the willow".
Much of Yeats' poetry is very lyrical and sets well to music. In skimming all of the discussion above about sally gardens in various localities I didn't see anything that would suggest that there wasn't a fort or castle nearby that had a sally port that gave the garden it's name. It's never been recorded.