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CDana 7-25-2007 01:49

Down by the salley garden

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Down by the Salley Gardens 
 
Words:William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) 
Melody: Maids Of The Mourne Shore 
 
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 did 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 I'm full of tears
 
Down by the Salley Gardens
My love and I did met 
She passed the Salley Gardens 
Withe 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 did not agree 
But I was young and foolish 
And now I'm full of tears
 
Down By The Salley Gardens (Irish: Gort na Saileán) is a traditional Irish song. Sometimes known as "An Traigh Mughdhorna", "The Maids of Mourne Shore" and "The Mourne Shore", it can be sung in both English or Irish. 
 
It is sometimes listed as a poem by William Butler Yeats, after the words were included in a book of his poems, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, published in 1889. However, the case is that Yeats published the poem as a tribute to oral tradition; it was based on a fragment of a song he recalled hearing an old Irish woman sing. Yeats' noted that This is an attempt to reconstruct an old song from three lines imperfectly remembered by an old peasant woman in the village of Ballysodare, Sligo, who often sings them to herself. The verse was subsequently set to music by Herbert Hughes to the air The Maids of the Mourne Shore in 1909. 
 
"Salley" is most likely from the Irish saileách, meaning willow, i.e., a tree of the genus Salix.
　

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CDana 7-25-2007 02:50

It's so terrible.
Of course,I didn't refer to the song,I like the one very much, so that the song wanna be edited more times,thus I edited it so many times,my god!

lol.........how do you feel......the song???????????

lovlucking 9-25-2007 17:20

chinses name：“莎利花园”

WTNY 9-25-2007 18:42

Welcome back lovlucking.

Amandine 10-14-2007 13:41

totally different with Jason's preferences:D

tingaling 10-14-2007 15:31

great song! suited my mood this morning~

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