Down By The Salley Gardens

Words & Music:

Traditional English

 

The October 2007 issue of Acoustic Guitar has an instrumental arrangement of this for solo guitar.

 

     D       A      G  D

Down by the Salley Gardens

    G       A      D

My love and I did meet;

                A      G  D

She passed the Salley Gardens

      G       A         D

With little snow-white feet.

    Bm      G         A

She bid me take love easy,

        G       D  A        G

As the leaves grow on the tree;

    D          A        G  D

But I, being young and foolish,

      G         A     D

With her would 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.