Down By the Salley Gardens, Dolores Keane

[jcriedijk]

I've heard some 100 different versions of this song.Many brilliant voices and many simple examples too.Topversions of the Irish contralto Bernadette Greevy,Scottish tenor Kenneth Mckellar and Irish Mary O'Hara

Just found Dolores Keane,of which many say,her voice is far from beautiful or "something about her voice is beautiful".Indeed she has far from a superb voice and her breathcontrol is bad,but I must admit that this unpolished voice with the most beautiful orchestration is breathtaking

[BoudiccaBlanc]

"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 placed 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."

--William Butler Yeats

("Sally"=Willow)

[BoudiccaBlanc]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

My very favorite version of the song!

[alphabettierchen]

first I thought: Ohh thats sooo slow, so boring....

But then....... :)

[MegaTition]

the saddest song you willever hear ,lovely when sung with that rough irish blessed voice ,love it ,loveit ,love it

[FredONeil1]

I love the emotion she conveys with her wonderful dark voice.

[SuperAquaries]

this song makes me cry very sad,the leaving of the emerald ilse

[annabananalady]

Something about her voice is beautiful! (:

[landinia123]

@annabananalady she is just magic



[hobart95999]

WOW 

[frodoireland]

They play this song in Dancing At Lughnasa and I found it very moving.

[seanosutherland]

@frodoireland - hi frodoireland - what did you think of "p.s. i love you' - i enjoyed "dancing at lughnasa " very much and now i'm 'cuckoo' about annmarie o'riordan - all the best from 'down under' - slainte sean

[saturne46]

Magnifique voix de contralto, profonde et émouvante

[MrWeecha1]

dolores yu cn fn sing u lv the rest behind. !!!!

[MrWeecha1]

ace.

[funkymonkeylovin]

Thanks for posting the mighty Delores Keane and her beautiful rendition of this classic.

[laddj]

Thank you so much for posting this. whenever im homesick for Ireland, this song cheers me up.Thanks again

[mfealy]

Thank u soooo much...lovely!!!!

[auburnacajou]

Holy shit, clicking the download AmazonMP3 button actually takes you to a downloadable version of this song! Preview it to see for yourselves, I had no idea! I lucked out in finding this MP3 from, er, internet sources.

[mileswattles1942]

@auburnacajou Thank you so much for this lovely rendition, it's now in my heart...Miles