#THE SALLY GARDENS BRITTEN FULL#

Angelo Branduardi on his album Branduardi canta Yeats (1986).James Galway recorded a flute instrumental version which has appeared on several of his albums.Clannad on their live albums Clannad in Concert (1979) and Clannad Live in Concert (2005), and on the compilation album Celtic Myst (1997).Marianne Faithfull on her joint-debut album of folk songs, Come My Way (1965).Kenneth McKellar on his album The Songs of Ireland (1960).Alfred Deller his album Western Wind (1958).John McCormack in 1941, by EMI, reissued on Pearl's 'Final Recordings 1941-42' (1995).Peter Pears on his 10-inch 78rpm Decca set (LA 30), with piano accompaniment by Benjamin Britten.The song has been part of the repertoire of many singers and groups. The composer John Ireland earlier set the words to an original melody in his cycle 'Songs Sacred and Profane', written in 1934. There is also a vocal setting by the poet and composer Ivor Gurney, which was published in 1938 and another by Benjamin Britten published in 1943. In the 1920's composer Rebecca Clarke (1886вЂ“1979) set the text to music. The verse was subsequently set to music by Herbert Hughes to the air The Maids of the Mourne Shore in 1909. It is close in sound to the Irish word saileach, meaning willow. 'Salley' or 'sally' is a form of the Standard English word 'sallow', i.e., a tree of the genus Salix. It has been suggested that the location of the 'Salley Gardens' ( Irish: Gort na SaileГЎn) was on the banks of the river at Ballysadare near Sligo where the residents cultivated trees to provide roof thatching materials. The poem 1st appeared under its present title when it was reprinted in Poems in 1895. Yeats's original title, 'An Old Song Re-Sung', reflected his debt to 'The Rambling Boys of Pleasure.' The rest of the song, however, is quite different. The similarity to the 1st verse of the Yeats version is unmistakable and would suggest that this was indeed the song Yeats remembered the old woman singing. But I was young and foolish, with my darling could not agree. 'Twas there I spied this pretty little girl, and those words to me sure she did say She advised me to take love easy, as the leaves grew on the tree. It was down by Sally's Garden one evening late I took my way. The lyrics to The Rambling Boys of Pleasure contain the following verse: The 'old song' may have been the ballad 'The Rambling Boys of Pleasure'. 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.'

#THE SALLY GARDENS BRITTEN FULL#

She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs Д«ut I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears. In a field by the river my love and I did stand,ДЄnd on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.

She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree Д«ut I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree. She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet

The sally gardens britten