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The Sally Gardens
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w B Yeat's words not very accurately used and a slight variation to the tune sometimes given. Classical guitar and voice, one take recording.
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Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.
I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.
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#244 in subgenre Peak #4
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Peak #156
Author
David Kilpatrick
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David Kilpatrick 2005
Uploaded
January 23, 2005
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MP3 3.8 MB 128 kbps 4:09
Story behind the song
Sally Gardens was mentioned on the Classical Guitar newsgroup and this is a tune I have played with others often enough. But I have never recorded a sung version, and usually play it using a steel string guitar. So this was a chance to sit down and do a variation on my usual take. Normally I would not sing the full ranging tune but curtail the ups and downs a bit. I use a different ending to the third line - it can end in the same (D) chord as all the other lines, but I use a typically Scottish variation with a shift to an E major and A to close this line. The tune is both Scottish and Irish and I'm simply preferring a Scottish 'inflection' of the structure.
Lyrics
Down by the Sally Gardens my love and I first did meet She passed through the Sally Gardens upon her little snow-white feet She bade me take life easy, just as the leaves grow on the tree But I being young and foolish with my true love did not agree (Yeats's words are similar to the Scots-Irish song 'Rambling Boys of Pleasure')
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