Maura O'Connell with Karen Matheson - Down by the Salley Gardens (1998)

[Floralvege]

definately my favourite version I've heard :) so bloooomin beautiful. 

[Zain405]

This was done beautifully nice song

[asterling1483]

we r singing this for my choir concert



[catwomen495]

I have this song on a cd at home. This is very beatiful and wonderfull.

[Ginazed]

wow

[ourpeoplesvoice]

Brilliant ! Also known as The Maids of Mourne , Thanks for Posting

[mitoguitarman]

That was very good. I enjoyed that as much as I could. Thank you.

[picnmixmusic]

I've just heard Rita Eriksen's version of Sally Gardens. They both sing it beautifully!

[thekevinkyle]

Stunning indeed,,,Tks. for shareing this beautiful song. A fine collection of musicans there.

[wntszyc]

the poem by W B Yeats was absolutely good.

[IdolJunkiee]

We played this in band.

[MsSmurfy7]

i love this song, what a stunning voice :)



[SuperUFB]

Maura is inspiring.

[camposi]

Maura is outstandig - but Karen is the woman i love. Shit the beer is nearly empty - and the whiskey. How I loved it to be in an irish pub and there was music like this way. It was long years ago.........................sr­rya< .......I´m drunk!

[LochMeikle]

The legendary missing Transatlantic Sessions Series Two is at long last available on DVD

[MartinRaetzJr]

I'm deeply impressed by your wounderful interpretation!

[Simorga]

HER VOICE!!! HER VOICE!!!!  ❤

[ll4891]

Stunning... Thank you for this video, I'm in awe.

[LittleClarirra]

We are singing this in a concert named marching for life

We are collecting money for children born with AIDS or HIV

Wish us luck! It's a beautiful but hard song...

[barnesgeorge3]

This performance is up there with Andreas Scholl for beauty and insight..

[firebug47]

I love O'Connell's rendering of Yeats's poem : notice the lovely unforced echoes and linking of meaning and word, half--rhyme and image: love-leaves, foolish-full; love-life; leaves-grass; trees-weirs; meet-stand; feet-hand/shoulder; the salley gardens-the field by the river. We should indeed take life and love as easily as leaves grow on trees and as grass grows on weirs, for life and love are natural phenomena just like those, they unfold in time, and have a logic and reason of their own.

[kennyfraserdotcom]

Transatlantic Sessions 2 is to be officially released on DVD in September 2011. You can pre-order it at Music Scotland.

[RobertLanard]

Beautifully sung with great voice and great musicains, thank you!

[Ryaneatcf]

I can never stop singing this song.. whether I'm at work or just relaxing with the family I can't stop thinking of the beauty of this song...

[GrotrianSeiler]

So so beautiful. So loving. So tender. Thank you all for such a sweet interpretation of this song.

[awidowsvoice]

How beautiful :)

[novacanis]

Lovely tune- in everyway! I love the old irishmusic so much.

[shamrock4500]

makes my hair stand up, beautiful song, thanks for posting

[thehillcefis]

beautiful music for one of the best poetry ever written. thanks WBY, thanks irish people, spirit, sky and land.

[maetu00]

@thehillcefis

C'est le plus beau pays du monde et ainsi sont les gens et leur sens de vivre. Ils ont trop souffert au long de leur histoire, que ça fait mal! Je sens un profond respect pour leur patriotisme et je prouve un désir imense de gratitude pour tout ce qu' ils nous font comprendre dans cette vie.Merci aux Irlandais, à leur music , à leur pays de rêve et à leur honnêteté.

[thehillcefis]

@maetu00 verissimo! d'accordissimo!

[DasHearach]

XNominal is probably less nominal than he/she thinks.

[sawadatsunayoshi2009]

I love this song from Thailand.

[waterloom]

I love this song and this is a lovely arrangement!

[csll15]

irish music is just wonderful... i love Fractale <3 ^^

[XNominal]

OMG is Horrible



[XNominal]

OMG



[DreadedEd]

That steel resonator guitar lends itself so well

[CarlaEriko]

this song makes my eyes full of tears  everytime I hear, its a sensitive, pure and beautifull song!!!! The firs time I heard was in the ending of a anime and loved then and now more than ever.

[songofyesterday]

why do their facial expressions tell me another story, looks like they had a bad day before performing this song

[tenorismo]

@songofyesterday Shes trying to cultivate a look . They also don't understand the ethos of the text. Words of a different centuary . Love , and sex are two different things.

[FlanneryDiehl]

God love the Celts, and sweet Maura

[vycurat]

go Yeats

[SuPeRpearpearson]

yay! i have to sing this at school for choir. it's my favorite

[molefo1]

简直就是天籁 高中的时候听过一次，当时就一直在找这首曲子 太美了 so beautiful  fantastic ！！！！

[chrissoftail]

I love this song

[Yurumates]

ep5 doesnt have this. I am sad

[Tzukimono]

When the celts and the japanese get together, they make great stuff. <3

Japirish. <3

[griesergram]

i didnt see a Justin Bieber comment yet ...o.o

[zemfisos99]

@griesergram i am seeing from you fucking troll

[Trunchisholm]

@brother1ray She's Scottish, not Irish. Her native language is English, but she speaks fluent Scots Gaelic.

[DonegalRaymie201]

@Trunchisholm

Please, don't embarss yourself! Karen is Scots, but her 1st language is Gaelic! Scots do not speak English as a 1st language: like Astrurians/ Galicians do not speak Castyliana! Comprende?

Scots have 2 languages of their own: Gaidhlig & Lallans, but not English!

[Trunchisholm]

@DonegalRaymie201 Check your facts. Karen Matheson is originally from Taynuilt, on West Coast Scotland. There are hardly any Gaelic speakers there or in mainland Scotland for that matter. Gaelic is only widely spoken in the Hebrides, and still is a struggling language, with only 58,652 speakers as of 2001.

Karen learned Gaelic songs through her grandmother, who is from Barra, but her first language has always been English. She's a fluent Gaelic speaker, though, but that's her second language.

[NagaTen]

It's amazing how beatiful and somewhat sad irish folk songs can be. Much like portuguese fado in terms of lyrics... Incredible really.

Oh, and yeah - Fractale showed my this song as well! And i even have a tin whistle with a song book that has the chart for it, but i never played it since i didn't know it :P

[BlackRubie]

I absolutely love this song... and to think I found out about it because of an anime.

[fullmetalaang96]

@BlackRubie fractale sure has some good music. XD

[fifthletteris]

@BlackRubie Fractale

[chickenlips2015]

Beautiful! Proud to say I am from Irish decent :)

[d4n13lr0x]

My God, what a beautiful voice. How blessed is this world.

[zk100yyy]

what a sad story,but eveyone had once~~~

[xanjo515x]

Thank you Fractale for making me aware of this awesome song. I just love the instruments they use for this song :)

[likanKyo]

Fractale is awesome.

[Wantony]

Thumbs up if you came here because of Fractale!!

[DeathmasterSAS]

@Wantony of course :D

[Tsunade201]

@Wantony I came because of fractale ;)

[On3Voic3Tranc3]

@Wantony I am SO glad I'm not the only one!

[34jwik]

@Wantony haha, indeed! ='.'=

[kreskaqq]

@Wantony

Yup T_T

[ZeneSand]

even so i love irish music, i, too, learned of this song from fractale

[kirino0morino]

great song and great artist

[Vza004]

ED for Fractale!! Fractale introduced me to this wonderful song.

[xmurda7]

@Vza004 haha word i discovered it the same way

[Vza004]

@xmurda7 That would make us Fractale comrades!! Cheers!!

[Jonijonh]

@Vza004 Same here. I totally adore Fractale for that!

[Vza004]

@Jonijonh Cheers!

[glendalough31]

I believe Salley comes from the Irish word for Willow.

[AlphaFae]

This is simply amazing. I've never heard a voice like that.

[AnaMurida]

A masterpiece. Respects from a Turkish Sufi.

[queenmabthefirst]

There are 6 Gaelics, and Irish is just one (Scots, Breton, Welsh....uhh....forget the rest)

[michael1235398]

her voice is so Beautiful realy! its like shes sold born for singin!

[hungchiufung]

as a chinese in hong kong, i leart it when i was a secondary school student, that's nearly 40 years ago(today is 9th dec, 2010). over the years, the tune and the words have been living and floating in my mind. the song is so beautiful and sad. it hit me strangely in those old days. thanks to maura o'connell. as a singer myself, now i know how to sing this song. i'll remember you and it'll continue to become the best version among all youtube items, for sure. guys, be humble, read music!

[oldpossum]

@hungchiufung 先生， 你好！

learning languages by means of songs and poetry is truly one of the best methods, at least for me. I learned a lot of Mandarin memorizing all kinds of Chinese songs, 比如说 “我和你”， "小兔子乖乖"，"老鼠爱大米"，等等。

Perhaps you didn't notice the error in the beautiful rendition of Maura O'Connell:

In the third line of the first stanza she correctly sings: "She bid me take LOVE easy ...", but then, in the third line of the second stanza, it should be "She bid me take LIFE easy ...".

[freemantam1350]

@hungchiufung I studied the same school 44 years ago, but I didn't learn this piece. I hope you can teach me in our next meeting. I miss the feel on the stage of our school hall. How great to sing this one, just once again on the stage in HGMS.

[hungchiufung]

as a chinese in hong kong, i leart it when i was a secondary school student, that's nearly 40 years ago(today is 9th dec, 2010). over the years, the tune and the words have been living and floating in my mind. the song is so beautiful and sad. it hit me strangely in those old days. thanks to maura o'connell. as a singer myself, now i know how to sing this song. i'll remember your name and it'll continue to become the best version among all youtube items, for sure. guys, be humble, read music!

[cissekaatje]

it just touched my heart

[LHoffman15]

absolutly horrid

[MyLifeInWonderland]

@LHoffman15 Its oka to not like a song,, but do you have to be such an ass about it?!

[EIREriddick13]

GREAT SONG

[michael1235398]

the best sally gardens i'v ever harde in my life!

[Jade860]

Still magical. A masterpiece

[spudseamus]

as with ALL Irish songs -sing it from the heart dats why this is soooooo good

[fatapeth]

why oh why can,t you buy transatlantic sessions 2 on dvd ??? AAAARGH!!!!!!

it,s so frustrating...i have series 1, 3 and 4 but 2 is not available for some reason ??

i hope someone from the powers that be , reads this comment and the countless others that are posted, saying how much they love the trans sessions , and do the right thing and RELEASE IT ASAP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ayeNUKKA]

i have to sing this today at my schools chior concert im so nervous

[ghelgaingadottir]

I like this very much - beautiful expression of the poem Salley Gardens -

[timsel36]

Milyen szép...!

[LagansLove]

@timsel36 igen,nagyon!

most csinallok egy lemesz, Sally Gardens Angalu es Danny Boy Magyarul

[timsel36]

@LagansLove ! hűű ez fantasztikus! majd írd meg mi a címe, hogy tudjam keresni! :) köszi! jó munkát!

[gerlynsheepy]

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;

She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.

She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;

But I being young and foolish with her did not agree.

In a field by the river my love and I did stand,

And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.

She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;

But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

[oldpossum]

@gerlynsheepy, correct.

Second stanza, third line, ought to be "...take LIFE easy", Yeats didn't mention love anymore, an important distinction that strangely Maura missed...

[yonghuiAssen]

wow wow woooooooooow

[hlwdguy]

Some times there is just nothing to say, Amazing

[zararomy]

STUPENDA!!!!!

[fryjmy]

What a fantastic version of this beautiful song.

[wordlife94]

i don't see any internet sensation about her even though she is better than susan boyle

[fearlessbetz]

Sang this for a class, and was sick to death of singing it over and over in practice. Now I'm enchanted by it again!

[TheIreneaustin]

oh my gosh! Sing with a touching feelings!

[Bubble1210]

Where's the LOVE button?

[SusanSusaw]

wow....how beautiful

[muneiwa209]

sounds sweet and bitter, i just practice this song with tin whistle, and makes me inspire better to play enough. thanks for sharing

[lugh100]

When the Irish and Scots get together we make sweet music. Q celts rule.

[rockleevampire]

@lugh100 aye aye to that mate :)

[kittycatcarley]

@lugh100 yes we do

[JeanneRousseau]

Wow!

[chrissoftail]

i think this song is amazing and beautiful

[camposi]

Because the singe is irish. In this case the best singer is Caren. And almost the best singer of this song is Maire Brennan.

[CelestialBroker]

Beautiful, heartfelt-- love the joy shown in this group.

[sixnoses]

If there were a heaven I imagine this is what would be playing as one crossed through the "pearly gates".  truly otherworldly.

[chrissoftail]

I love this song

[48keva]

makes me proud to to irish!!

breathtaking!!

[GaeilgeMilis]

This is not a singer - this is an angel of naked natural melody sent to entrance me and melt my heart. And she did that in seconds. Her wonderful timbre - especially at the medium pitch - has a magical, melting musical quavering in it and her pure and soulful delivery is a world class phenomenon of outstanding aural beauty. Smitten am I in arcadia.

[theoneandtheone]

@GaeilgeMilis Hi, i'm not as well voiced as yourself, but this is absolute brilllance in my eyes, no better i have heard of this track, i agree! outstanding!

[DasHearach]

@GaeilgeMilis Oh, man! You have obviously practiced the ability to talk crap to perfection but I feel that I must agree!

[DasHearach]

Reading through some of the comments has me thinking that most of you have been on the bottle! What's wrong with just enjoying the beautiful sound of two fantastic singers and six very talented musicians?

[Superpiii]

Meravigliosa! *_*

[madhatter1818]

Wow they r good and this is a nice song

[moll26]

that song is so lovely

[everquest72126]

played this song in band this year and its gorgeous both ways

[Jade860]

Outstanding! Thanks.

[warrensson]

"Salley" is an anglicisation of the Irish saileach, meaning willow, i.e., a tree of the genus Salix. Willows are known as "salleys", "sallies" or "salley trees" in parts of Ireland.

[burkeness50]

the dobro was invented by the Dopyera Bros. Not Hawaiian at all..

[NightsWhiteWolf]

I have listened to a couple of other singers singing this song. I must say, I still prefer this two singers for this particular song. Not too slow, not too fast.

[Bound4NH]

I love how the dobro, which originated in Hawaii, has adapted so well to traditional Gaelic music.

[MrBowsmith]

yes the best

[eviemccreevie]

Best version of the song i have ever heard 2 powerful yet fantastic voices well done!!:D

[phoenix1916]

Only Maura O'Connell could do WB Yeats justice....simply beautiful!!

[jackchristierules]

this is enchanting!! best version of this song I have ever heard, what a voice and what a beautiful arrangement, truly wonderful! :)

[uomidoido]

Maravilhoso!!!

[mimiburnsband]

stunning

[12ounces1]

Big ol ginger lezza, let her get on with it. I loved it and am wanting more. Does she heave an album out?

[LiangRome]

anyone notice in the second verse where she almost says leaves but then switches to grass? so pro. . .

[Nicoleebbs]

you can't beat the Bridgets Up the dubs

[scottstanton1]

SWEET !!

[pastore0506]

Beautifully sung!

[idaveit]

Wonderful interpretation of that beautiful song. *****

[RainbowFlamez]

There is no better sound than an Irish lilted song. Amazing and well done

[itsbankaibitch]

I can't wait to sing this for my vocal techniques class!

[arkin187]

very very nice

[cokecanwithaface]

very sad

[SSSbounty]

outstanding!

[TheChaborina]

maravilloso

[minicocomi]

Ce n'est pas une mélodie bretonne, pourtant !...

[HODOK1935]

MERCI pour cette vidéo Marie (mon fils vient de m'arranger "ce qui bloquait"dans les vidéos envoyées,j'irai tout revoir demain et merci encore pour celle-ci,belles voix et mélodie *****Odette

et merci à mnemonyxx (pardon du com,je reviendrai

[Diavidia]

Wow ! Marvellous ! Thanks for posting (and thanks Marie to make me discover this marvel)

Hugs & cheers

Dia

[umelucucciutenerezza]

merci marie .merveilleux..bisous

[oldpossum]

Wonderful version!

There is but one problem with it: in the second stanza, Yeats wrote:

"She bid me: take LIFE easy...", and, for some reason, Maureen missed this and sings: "take LOVE easy", as in the first one.

This is one of the main points of the whole poem -- the relationship is over, love isn't mentioned anymore...

Strange glitch indeed..!

[fanfirren]

i can't not stop listening,incredeble beautiful,

thanks for postening

[NRamirezCR]

increíble... demasiado bueno!

[nanadiamond111]

*_*

[halfdoorclub1]

Very nice.

[KellyMo49]

wow. this is so beautiful.

[landry1755]

gorgeous

[Irelandhasmyheart]

I love the song! Great singers. I have just been to the Sally Gardens, which adds to the feeling of the song

[frescheacque]

Fantastici!!! Grazie!!! grande Yeats!

[haggardfolks]

This is one of my very favorite videos.

Its moving~

[lorene31513]

The best Salley Gardens I've ever heard!