*Down by the Salley Gardens(サリー・ガーデン・柳の庭で)アイルランド民謡 この曲は、元々伝承曲だったものに、ノーベル文学賞受賞者ウィリアム・バトラ−・イェイツ(William Butler Yeats 1865〜1939)が詩をつけたものだそうです。
1. 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.
2. 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.