The song is based on a poem by William Butler Yeats
published in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems in 1889.
Yeats indicated in a note that it was "an attempt to reconstruct
an old song from three lines imperfectly remembered
by an old peasant woman in the village of Ballisodare, Sligo,
who often sings them to herself."
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.
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