Folk Infusion: Down By The Sally Gardens And Related Songs
There is a tune named "Salley Gardens" as well as the song under discusion here, which, as noted above, uses a tune of a different name. White Willow (Salix alba). Down by the Salley Gardens is a pretty English song with poetic words by William Butler Yeats. 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! A good choice for a singing story-teller, an operatic group, a short theater production, or a class of children!
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Tune: Maids of the Mourne Shore, Trad. There's no suggestion of a source in any of the hundreds of Aboriginal languages... such things were a favourite delusion of Victorian era academics... but rarely proved feasible, let alone true! Send a PM if any of you want it. From Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs, Fowke. This song likely originated in Ireland before coming to America. The song is often call "Down By The Willow Gardens". Lyrics W. B. Yeats/traditional air "Maids of Mourne Shore").
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The words are by William Butler Yeats, and the tune is traditional. Yeats wrote notes about the origins of the poem, and stated that he tried to rebuild an old song from three lines that an old woman sang to herself - lines that were vaguely remembered. It could technically be described as a British song, because at the time, Ireland was being governed from London. Gogarty and Yeats were attending a John McCormack concert in Dublin some fifty years ago and McCormack, in response to a demand for encores, said, "I will sing one of our beloved Irish folk songs, 'The Sally Gardens. '" Sailach - pronounced 'Sally'.
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It just doesn't make sense. There was a setting on. Now most Australians think a "wattle" must be an acacia... and forget that, by the priority rules of taxonomy, only the callicoma should be so called! They noted: A beautiful lyric, from one of the greatest poets of these islands. 1 sali-], 3 selihe, salyhe, 5-6 saly, 6 salye, 6, 9 salley, 7- sally. 1932 R. ANDERSON Trees New South Wales 58 Snow Gum or White Sally. And now he sits by his old cottage door. Thank you I'm enjoying this discussion-Lorraine.
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I accept the loan word to Irish from Latin. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; "Salley, " by the way, means willow, that old emblem of love gone wrong. She is a singer, harpist whose genres include Celtic, adult contemporary and New Age music, and her previous associations include Anúna and Celtic Woman. Which was a bloody knife. Have the inside scoop on this song? Oliver St. John Gogarty, the late Irish writer and physician and, incidentally, the prototype of James Joyce's Buck Mulligan, told me the following anecdote. He belonged to the Protestant, Anglo-Irish minority that had controlled the economic, political, social, and cultural life of Ireland since at least the end of the 17th century....
It is close in sound to the Irish word saileach, meaning willow. I've heard the ".. love easy" and ".. life easy" lines switched around by different performers. I heard her holler, I heard her moan. My love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder. With a lovely piano accompaniment. From: Q (Frank Staplin). I'd be willing to bet real money that the terms sally port and sally garden were in use for a long time in the UK or Europe before they made their way over here, possibly as artifacts of activities that happened in a given area long time ago. Common names in one place may refer to a completely different plant in another. Other poems by Yeats such as 'The Song of Wandering Aongus' (Donovan, Christy Moore), "The Stolen Child" (Danny Ellis, Loreena McKennitt), and "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (Joni Mitchell) are also good examples. DT of October 1994). He could only remember a few lines but acknowledged his debt to the original version by calling his new poem, An Old Song Re-sung.