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Down By The Sally Gardens     Credits: Traditional; lyrics by W.B. Yeats; arranged by Clannad     Appears On: Clannad In Concert; Live In Concert     Language: English     Other Versions: "The Salley Gardens" on Anúna's album Anúna 2002 "Down By The Sally Gardens" on Órla Fallon's album The Water Is Wide "Down By The Salley Gardens" on Méav Ní Mhaolchatha's album A Celtic Journey

Lyrics:

Down by the sally gardens my love and I did meet
She passed the sally gardens with little snow-white feet
She bid me to take love easy as the leaves grow on the trees
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 her leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand
She bid me to take life easy as the grass grows on the weirs
But I was young and foolish and now I am full of tears

Down by the sally gardens my love and I did meet
She passed the sally gardens with little snow-white feet
She bid me to take love easy as the leaves grow on the trees
But I being young and foolish with her would not agree