Down by the Salley Gardens for recorder octet/ensemble (arr. Clive Lane) by Clive Lane Sheet Music for Recorder Ensemble at Sheet Music Direct
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Down by the Salley Gardens for recorder octet/ensemble (arr. Clive Lane) Digital Sheet Music
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Down by the Salley Gardens for recorder octet/ensemble (arr. Clive Lane)
by Clive Lane Recorder Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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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.

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.

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 willow tree of the genus Salix. It is close in sound to the Irish word saileach, which also means willow.

The tune is the traditional air "The Maids of Mourne Shore" and this setting is for eight recorders, or recorder ensemble/orchestra.

Duration: 3:22


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