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Worlds of Music

Down by the Salley Gardens aus: WORLDS OF MUSIC

Das irische Volkslied beruht auf dem gleichnamigen Gedicht von William Butler Yeats (1889) und der Musik von Herbert Hughes (1909), der die Melodie des Traditionals "The Maids of Mourne Shore" verwendet. Die Vertonung von Hughes wurde auch von anderen Komponisten und Arrangeuren aufgegriffen, darunter Benjamin Britten (1943).

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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.

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