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Thread #7218   Message #43578
Posted By: Alan of Australia
29-Oct-98 - 06:21 AM
Thread Name: Origins: History behind 'Willow Garden'
Subject: RE: History behind
G'day,
The Everly Brothers version of "Rose Connolly" is on the "Bringing It All Back Home" double CD, a Hummingbird production for BBC Television (Northern Ireland).

I also have a version somewhere on an old Peter & Gordon album.

As I heard the story of "Sally Gardens", Yeats needed a song in a hurry for some function & wanted to use "Ye Rambling Boys of Pleasure". When he couldn't find the words in time he wrote "Sally Gardens", set to an older tune.

Cheers,
Alan