Songwriters & Music Lovers:
"Down by the Salley Gardens" (Irish: Gort na Saileán) is a poem by William Butler
Yeats published in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems in 1889.
Yeats indicated in a note that it was "an attempt to reconstruct an old song from
three lines imperfectly remembered by an old peasant woman in the village of
Ballisodare, Sligo, who often sings them to herself."
It has been suggested that the location of the "Salley Gardens" was on the banks of
the river at Ballysadare near Sligo, where the residents cultivated trees to provide
roof thatching materials. "Salley" or "sally" is a form of the Standard English word
"sallow", i.e., a tree of the genus Salix. It is close in sound to the Irish word
“saileach”, meaning willow.
If your name is “Sally”, I dedicate this song to you.
This live performance by “All Mixed Up” at Coolfont Resort in W. Va., includes:
Barry Wendell Harmony & Rhythm Guitar
Ed Schaeffer Vocal & Lead Guitar; Bass
To listen, click: http://rattlesnakehill.org/saintpatrick/saintpatrick.html
Ed
(As always, headphones preferred!)
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