"Down by the Salley Garden"--the Song Version

The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens," which was written by William Butler Yeats and introduced in Lesson 6 in Fast East English Textbook for Senior High School Book 4, has its song version.  A lovely song!  In fact, it is originally an Irish folk song, which Yeats turned into a poem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_VtaD9Wchk



Down by the Salley Gardens

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;

She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. S

he 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.