Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 1 "British Isles" (Arr. for Voice and Theorbo by Matthew Wadsworth): No. 1, The Salley Gardens
Benjamin Britten
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