When I was one-and-twenty. The so-called 'sensitive plant' is Mimosa pudica. Yeats poems set to music (28). I heard her holler, I heard her moan. The lyrics were originally written by W B Yeats as a poem. Mimosa and wattle are both common names for various species of the Mimosaceae. This would be consistent with the leaves growing (over some time) on the trees rather than their falling from them, an image more linked to age than to youth. Then, without attributing the words to Yeats, he sang the song hauntingly. It is widely used as in the Dublin children's version of the Cruel Mother popularized by the Dubliners - Down by the river Sailagh. Other poems by Yeats.
Auld Lang Syne - the New Year's Eve song! Folk Music > Songs > Down by the Salley Gardens. No particular willow species is indicated. Down by the Salley Gardens was written as a poem and remained that way until 1909 when Herbert Hughes set it to music using the old Irish melody, The Maids of Mourne Shore. And upon my leaning shoulder, she laid her snow-white hand. The words are very similar to Down by the Salley Gardens and it seems safe to assume that You Rambling Boys of Pleasure was the song Yeats heard being sung by the old woman. A very helpful thread. Did the singer regularly meet the female, or did he only see her the once, passing by in the bare feet, and fall for her "at first sight"? Quoted in M. H Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt eds., The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. Ask us a question about this song. There was one of those at San Juan Island NHP also, in English camp, if I recall correctly. A good choice for a singing story-teller, an operatic group, a short theater production, or a class of children!
And that blue-eyed girl became blue -eyed whore. It is likely that the lyrics of "Down by the Willow Gardens" are related to the Irish song Wexford Girl, also known as Oxford Girl or The Bloody Miller, which also gave rise to the American song Knoxville Girl. Date: 20 Aug 10 - 12:53 PM. Oliver St. John Gogarty, the late Irish writer and physician and, incidentally, the prototype of James Joyce's Buck Mulligan, told me the following anecdote. In 1909, it was set by Herbert Hughes to the air The Maids of the Mourne Shore. 4-5 salwe, (4 salew, salugh), 5-6 salgh(e, salow(e, (5 salwhe, 6 sallowe, sallo, 7 salloo), 4- sallow;.
Without ecology... there would _be_ no economy. Music: Traditional, "The Maids of the Mourne Shore. " Sailach - pronounced 'Sally'. Album: The Water Is Wide - Orla Fallon. But I being young and foolish, and now I am full of tears. I have seen and heard ardently argued debates as to whether the title refers to a place in Dublin or Sligo.
I've also been mulling a way for "aller" to cross the channel and acquire the ce or s sound when it is Anglicised. You never know just how particular students will react to a new song, especially a song as old-fashioned as this one. With little snow-white feet. The song appears in The Richard Dyer-Bennet Folk Song Book published in 1971. Like the lotus and the plane tree being close relatives (or is it the water lily and the plane tree? Maura O'Connell and Karen Matheson from the Transatlantic Sessions. Britten's justly famous version in his Folksong Arrangements Volume 1 (1943) is so complete in and of itself that all we could sensibly do was assign it to our various instruments and listen to Mairi sing it. What is a "salley garden"?