Clannad: “Down by the Sally Gardens” (Live) (1979)
William Butler Yeats wrote this as a poem, inspired by an older song, “You Rambling Boys of Pleasure”. It was set to music by Herbert Hughes.
Clannad is a family folk group comprised of three siblings and two uncles. They also spawned the solo career of another sibling whose fame eclipsed their own–Enya.
This song drips with the melancholy of unrequited love that is a hallmark of so many Irish traditional songs.
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2020/05/15/songs-you-may-have-missed-664/
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