Barleyjuice is a sextet devoted to traditional Celtic music. It ws started … Read Full Bio ↴Barleyjuice is a sextet devoted to traditional Celtic music. It ws started by Staten Island native, Keith Swanson. Although all sing with verious Celtic accents, all six of the band members - Kyf Brewer, Keith Swanson, Billy Dominick, Jimmy Carbomb, Eric Worthington, and Gregor Schroeder - are native Americans (as opposed to Native Americans).

BARLEYJUICE TRIVIA:
Brewer is the group's frontman. In other lives, he has appeared in Dodge commercials and acted in movies ("Serial Mom" and "Fahrenheit 911") and on TV ("Homicide" and "Hack"). Carbomb owns a kilt-making company on the side.

Sally Garden
Barleyjuice Lyrics

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It was down by the sally garden
My love and i did meet
She crossed the sally garden
On little snow white feet
She bade me take life easy
Like the leaves that grow upon the tree
But i was young and foolish
And with her did not agree

In a field down by the river
My love and i did stand
And on her leaning shoulder
She placed her snow white hand
She bade me take love easy
Like the grass that grows along the weirs

But i was young and foolish
And now am filled with tears.

Overall Meaning

The song Sally Garden by Barleyjuice is based upon a traditional Irish song called The Salley Gardens. The lyrics talk about a love story that took place in a garden called the Sally Garden. The singer met his love in this garden and he describes her crossing the garden on snow-white feet. She advised him to take life easy and let things grow like the leaves on a tree, but he was foolish and disagreed.

Later on, the singer and his lover stood in a field by the river and he leaned on her shoulder when she placed her snow-white hand on him. Here, she advised him to take love easy like the grass that grows along the weirs, but he was young and foolish once again and now regrets it.

The Sally Garden symbolizes a place of beauty and tranquility where love blossoms, yet the singer fails to appreciate it at the time due to his youthful arrogance. The overall interpretation of this song is that the singer lost his chance at love by not taking the opportunity to appreciate it when it was right in front of him.

Line by Line Meaning

It was down by the sally garden
We met in a place called Sally Garden.

My love and I did meet
My lover and I met each other.

She crossed the sally garden
She walked across Sally Garden.

On little snow white feet
She had small feet as white as snow.

She bade me take life easy
She told me to relax and take life slow.

Like the leaves that grow upon the tree
She compared life to the growth of leaves on a tree.

But I was young and foolish
However, I was immature and reckless.

And with her did not agree
And I did not agree with her.

In a field down by the river
Later on, we were in a field by the river.

My love and I did stand
We stood there together.

And on her leaning shoulder
She leaned on my shoulder.