Background:
Ye Zhi's manuscript records the creation background of this song. In a village outside sligo in western Ireland, Ye Zhi heard an elderly farmer humming a folk song called The Rambling Boys of Pleasure, and the lyrics mentioned Sally Gardens ("It was down by Sally's Garden One Evening LateI Took My Way"). Ye Zhi thought it was very nice, so he went to listen to the full version. However, the old farmer can't remember the complete lyrics. So, Ye Zhi wrote his own lyrics for this ballad and named it An Old Song Re-Sung. After the song was sung, the name was set as the first sentence of the lyrics-Down by the Sally Gardens. In 199, Irish musician Herbert Hughes rearranged the tune.
The Sally Gardens in the lyrics is located on the bank of a small river in sligo. Residents along the river bank cut down Willow branches to build roofs, and these willows are locally called willow. Therefore, this place is called Sally Gardens, which means Willow Garden. Willow Garden is also a place where some young lovers meet.
This song is composed according to Ye Zhi's poem "〈Down By the Salley Garden〉" of the same name. It was originally translated into "In the Willow Garden", which was a poem written by Ye Zhi in his early years. His early poems were beautiful in rhythm, delicate in emotion, flowery in rhetoric and rich in symbolic meaning. Obviously influenced by English romanticism and French symbolism poetry
Ye Zhi once made the following comments on this poem: "This poem is rewritten from three lines of old lyrics that an old peasant woman who often sings alone in the village of Balisodale, sligo County". The poet recalls the past and expresses his feelings about life and love. This kind of emotion is more mixed with the meaning of "Let it Be". Think about yourself. Quite touching.
In the dead of night, the melodious sound of bagpipes brings us into a world without noise and impetuousness. This classic love poem is sung softly by the singer. Can bring us a good mood.
Down by the Salley Gardens
Sally Gardens
Down by the salley gardens My love and I did meet
I once met my love in the salley garden
She passed the Salley Garden. S with little snow-white feet
She walked with snow-white feet, and walk on by Sha Garden
She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree
She asked me to simply pursue true love. It's as natural as a tree growing leaves
but I'm being young and foolish with her not agree
but I'm so young and stupid. Never listened to her heart
in a field by the river my love and I did stand
I once stood side by side with my love in the wilderness by the river
and on my shoulder she laid her snow-white hand
She made her tender. White hands, put on my slightly inclined shoulders
She bid me take life easy as the grass grows on the weir
She wants me to live simply, just like the tough grass growing on the river bank
But I was young and foolish now, and now I am only full of tears.