Full Lyrics
1. Down by the Sally Gardens
Irish Traditional — Lyrics: William Butler Yeats (1889)
Down by the Sally Gardens, my love and I did meet.
She passed the Sally Gardens with little snowwhite feet.
She bid me take life easy, as the leaves grow on the tree.
But I was young and foolish, with her did not agree.
In a field down by the river, my love and I did stand
And on my leaning shoulder, she laid her snowwhite 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.
