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    This document is the lyrics to the Irish folk song "Gort na Saileán, Down by the Salley Gardens" written by William Butler Yeats in 1889 and set to traditional Irish music. The song tells a story of a man who meets his love down by the salley gardens but refuses to agree to her request to take love easy like the leaves grow on the tree.

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    This document is the lyrics to the Irish folk song "Gort na Saileán, Down by the Salley Gardens" written by William Butler Yeats in 1889 and set to traditional Irish music. The song tells a story of a man who meets his love down by the salley gardens but refuses to agree to her request to take love easy like the leaves grow on the tree.

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    Gort na Saileán, Down by the Salley Gardens

    Irish Folk Song

    Text: William Butler Yeats, 1889 Music: Traditional (The Maids of the Mourne Shore)

                        

    Down by the sal ley gar dens my love and I did


    She passed the sal ley gar dens with lit tle snow white
            
     
          

    5
    1. 2.
            
           
    meet; feet. She bid me take love ea sy, as the
     
                       

    10

            
           
    leaves grow on the tree; But I, be ing young and
         
     
           

    14
      
            
    fool ish, with her would not a gree.
          
           
    Fine
                           

           
            
     

    5 D.C. al Fine
             
                

              
           
     

    10
    1. 2.
           
                          

                


         

    16

     
                         
     
                
            

    21
    rit. 
      
          
                   
                   
      
      
       

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