Folk Songs with Lyrics by Yeats

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist and prose writer. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He was born June 13, 1865 in Dublin, and died January 28, 1939 in France.

2009 CD by Caroline Herring: Golden Apples of the Sun
(CD title taken from Yeats poem)

Yeats poems used in songs (from Valerie Magee):
 
From his final album, Sweet Joy, 2005:
 
Song of the Wandering Angus
Celts/Go No More A Rovin' (The Stolen Child, with the Byron poem tacked on at the end)
 
From Paths of Victory (1965):
 
Innisfree (The Lake Isle of Innisfree)


Stacy Jagger\ Innisfree \ based on Yeats poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

Stolen Child, Waterboys

"Golden Apples of the Sun" - Judy Collins
"Song of the Wandering Aengus" - Dave Van Ronk.

"The Last of the Gleemen" - Robbie O'Connell
"The Stolen Child" - The Waterboys or Loreena McKennitt
"Down by the Sally Garden" - Clannad and many others
"To a Child Dancing in the Wind" - The Commoners

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