This famous song was composed based on the poem "Down By the Salley Garden" by the poet William Butler Yeats. It tells the story of a riverside scene in Sligo, western Ireland. Willow Garden. Originally translated as "Liu Yuanli". Covered by many singers.
Background:
Yeats’s manuscript records the background of this song. In a village outside Sligo in the west of Ireland, Yeats heard an old farmer humming a ballad called The Rambling Boys of Pleasure. The lyrics mentioned Sally Gardens ("It was down by Sally's"). Garden one evening late I took my way"). Yeats thought it sounded very good, so he went over to listen to the full version. However, the old farmer could no longer remember the complete lyrics. So Yeats filled in the lyrics for this ballad himself and named it An Old Song Re-Sung. After the song spread, the name was decided as the first line of the lyrics - Down by the Sally Gardens. In 1909, Irish musician Herbert Hughes rearranged the tune.
The Sally Gardens in the lyrics is located on the bank of a small river in Sligo. Residents along the river cut down willow branches to build roofs, and these willow trees are locally called Sallow (same as Willow in English). Therefore, this place was called Sally Gardens, which means Willow Garden. Willow Garden is also a meeting place for young lovers.
This song is composed based on Yeats's poem of the same name "Down By the Salley Garden". It was originally translated as "In the Willow Garden" and is an early poem by Yeats. His early poems have beautiful rhythm. , with delicate emotions, gorgeous rhetoric and strong symbolic meaning, it is obviously influenced by British Romanticism and French Symbolist poetry
Yeats once made the following annotation for this poem: "This poem is based on the poem "Sligo County". "It was adapted from three lines of old lyrics that were incompletely remembered by an old peasant woman who often sang alone in the village of Ballysodale." The poet recalled the past and expressed his emotions about life and love. This emotion is more mixed with "Let it means "it Be". Thinking about myself, I feel quite emotional.
In the dead of night, the melodious sound of bagpipes brings us into a world without noise and impetuosity. This classic love poem, through The singer's soft humming can bring us a good mood.
Down by the Salley Gardens
Salley Gardens
Down by the Salley Gardens my love and I did meet
She passed the Salley Gardens with little snow-white feet
She passed the Salley Gardens with little snow-white feet
She passed the Salley Gardens with little snow-white feet
With her snow-white slender feet, she walked gently through Shayuan
She bid me take love easy as the leafes grow on the tree
She asked me to pursue true love simply, like Trees grow leaves as naturally as they do
But I being young and foolish with her did not agree
But I was so young and foolish, I never listened to her wishes
In a field by the river my love and I did stand
I once stood side by side with my beloved in the wilderness by the river
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand
She put her little white hand on my slightly sloping shoulder
She bid me take life easy as the grass grows on the weirs < /p>
She wanted me to live simply, like the tough grass growing by the river
But I was young and foolish and now am full of tears
But I was so young and stupid, and now I can only shed tears and be filled with emotion