| Down by the Salley Gardens by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (1940-2010), tenor David Willison, piano CD: www.amazon.com Down by the Salley Gardens by WB Yeats 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. 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. |