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Salley Gardens

Scoring: TTBB quartet a cappella

 Date: 2017 - updated 2022

 This arrangement for TTBB quartet or choir of "Salley Gardens" (or "Sally Gardens") presents the traditional folksong very simply, but it is to be sung as a quietly emotional song about lost love, expressing both dreamy regret and, at times, fierce intensity.

 Links: pdf - mp3 - midi - mxl - sib - sib 6


Words:
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 did not agree.

2.
In a field down 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.

3.
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 did not agree.
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