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Down by the salley gardens
Music: Trad. arr. Frances Cockburn, Words: W.B.Yeats
Voicing: SATB
Performance time approx: 2m 00s
Range S: e'♭ – e''♭ / A: a♭ – b'♭ / T: e♭ – b♭ / B: F – e♭
Price code: B
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Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; [salley - willow]
She passed the salley gardens on 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.
W B Yeats (1865 — 1939)