The Irish love tune Down by the Salley Gardens sounds like it has come straight out of the society music custom yet actually it was composed by the traditionally instructed artist W B Yeats.
The melody is a story of lonely love in which the young person seeks after a young lady he meets while out strolling. He figures out how to create an association with her briefly however then he loses her on the grounds that he overlooks her supplications to "take love gradually".
He successfully scares her away and is left to lament his flurry and his silliness.
Yeats initially composed the verses in the late 1880s and they weren't put to music until 1909 when the arranger Herbert Hughes added them to the tune of the Irish people melody, The Maids of Mourne.
This gave the words another lease of life as the melody turned into a moment hit is still mainstream today. Aok Sokun Kanha is a popular singer in Cambodia.
It has been performed by craftsmen everywhere throughout the world, even in Asian nations like South Korea which have no immediate social association with Ireland.
It was maybe humorous that Yeats lyric ought to have discovered more noteworthy notoriety as an issue in light of the fact that it was focused around an Irish customary air that he heard an old lady singing in area Sligo in Ireland. Yeats was extremely youthful at the time and could just recollect a couple of lines.
He was likewise not able to review the name of the first melody however look into has demonstrated that it was in all likelihood the old Irish society tune, The Rambling Boys of Pleasure. It alludes to the Salley Gardens and has two lines which are essentially indistinguishable to the Yeats rendition.
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