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Artist: John McCormack
Author: Herbert Hughes/trad./W.B. Yeats
Label: His Master's Voice
Year: 1941
Roud #3819. Words from a poem Yeats wrote in 1889 under original title An Old Song Re-sung. Music by Herbert Hughes using the air of The Maids Of Mourne Shore. Where are these Sally Gardens? Along the river at Ballysadare in County Sligo.
Covers:
Sir Peter Pears [as The Sally Gardens, with partner Benjamin Britten on piano]
Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy [as The Sally Gardens]
Planxty [as You Rambling Boys Of Pleasure (Roud #386) which may have been the song inspiring Yeats]
Angelo Branduardi [on Branduardi Canta Yeats]
Swingle Singers [as The Salley Gardens]
Dolores Keane [in film Dancing At Lughnasa]
Waterboys [on Collector's edition Room To Roam]
Emma Thompson [in film The Children Act]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)