sally garden lyrics
Lonemike
Rick Lee
: I would like the lyrics to that wonderful Irish ballad "sally garden"
There is the famous WB Yeats poem...
Traditional versions include two shown in digital tradition:
http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/digitrad/list=100
The one closest to Yeats' is:
YOU RAMBLING BOYS OF PLEASURE
[view or play tune]
You Rambling Boys of Pleasure
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.
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.
It was down by Sally's Garden one evening late I took my way.
'Twas there I spied this pretty little girl, and those words to
me sure she did say She advised me to take love easy, as the
leaves grew on the tree. But I was young and foolish, with my
darling could not agree.
The very next time I met my love, sure I thought her heart was mine,
But as the weather changes, my true love she changed her mind.
Cursed gold is the root of evil, oh it shines with a glittering hue,
Causes many the lad and lass to part, let their hearts be ever so true.
Sure I wish I was in Dublin town, and my true love along with me.
With money to support us and keep us in good company.
With lots of liquor plentiful, flowing bowls on every side,
Let fortune never daunt you, my love, we're both young and the
world is wide.
But there's one thing more that grieves me sore is to be called a runaway
And to leave the spot I was born in, oh Cupid cannot set me free,
And to leave that darling girl I love, oh alas, what will I do?
Will I become a rover, sleep with the girl I never knew ?
@love @parting @courting @rambling
From Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs, Fowke
filename[ SALGARD3
play.exe SALGARD3
RG
(DT of October 1994)
Rick
Lyle Skinner
On 20 Apr 1995, Lonemike wrote:
> I would like the lyrics to that wonderful Irish ballad "sally garden"
>
>
The lyrics to Sally Gardens can be found at:
L. Davis
: I would like the lyrics to that wonderful Irish ballad "sally garden"
Well, not all of us have web access, so:
WB Yeats, "Down by the Salley Gardens" (this is the version sung by
Clannad and also recently Kathryn Roberts)
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.
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.
There is also a lovely interpretation of "I went out to the Hazel
Wood," possibly also Clannad. Any other Yeats put to (folk)m usic?
PS What *are* "salley" gardens?
- Lisa Davis
Steve YATES
someobscure northern group, the other on a tape I found the other
day as an arrangement adapted from an original by vaughnan
Williams. these lead me to doubt that it is Irish and in is fact
Ennglish. If no one elsereplies I could send yu the tape and you
could transcribe it.
SSteve
James Lewis
: I have only heard this twice, once on a R2 prog Folk on Two by
: SSteve
Richard Dyer Bennett recorded this beautifully way back when: Decca
DLP 5046.
I have no idea whether this is availble on tape or CD anywhere. If it
is, GET IT!
Jim
--
Jim Lewis - jk...@freenet.scri.fsu.edu
. . . Without ecology . . . there would _be_ no economy.
Greer Gilman
Yeats, from =Crossways= (1889):
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.
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.
"Salley," by the way, means willow, that old emblem of love gone wrong.
Greer Gilman
David Harley
: "Down by the salley gardens" is a setting of an early poem by
These are the words I seem to hear most often, but my recollection is that
Yeats based the poem on something he heard sung. Certainly I've heard Tom
Sheerin and others sing significantly different sets of words.
David Harley
David Harley
[cut]
: There is also a lovely interpretation of "I went out to the Hazel
: Wood," possibly also Clannad.
Or 'Song of Wandering Aengus', if I remember rightly. There was a setting on
a very early Judy Collins album.
: Any other Yeats put to (folk)m usic?
I once set 'The Pilgrim', if it's of any interest. It's never been recorded.
I have some recollection of hearing 'Innisfree' and 'Mad as the mist and
snow' (if that's the correct title) sung, but I'm not sure it was in a
folk context.
David Harley
Stephen Rose
David Harley <har...@europa.lif.icnet.uk> wrote:
:L. Davis (lda...@connix.com) wrote:
:[cut]
:: There is also a lovely interpretation of "I went out to the Hazel
:: Wood," possibly also Clannad.
:
:Or 'Song of Wandering Aengus', if I remember rightly. There was a setting on
:a very early Judy Collins album.
Christy Moore did that too.
:: Any other Yeats put to (folk)m usic?
Davy Spillane did "The Host of the Air" on "Shadow Hunter"
The Waterboys did "The Stolen Child" on "Fisherman's Blues".
Can't think of any more, but there ought to be plenty imho.
Stephen.