Down by the Salley Gardens - Irish folk song arr. for trombone and piano from com steal song video Watch Video
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Description: “Down by the Salley Gardens” is a poem written by the Irish poet, W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), and published in 1889. Yeats's poem was set to music by the Irish composer, critic and folk-song collector Herbert Hughes (1882-1937) in 1909. Hughes based his composition on the traditional Irish ballad, “The Maids of Mourne Shore.”nnA “salley” is a willow tree (“salley” being the English derivation of the Gaelic word for willow, “saileach”), and the salley gardens, or willow grove, was
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