Down Yonder Green Valley

Going through my mother's papers, I come across this handwritten note, torn from a notepad.  

Down Yonder Green Valley

by Anonymous

Down yonder green valley 

Where streamlets meander

Where twilight is fading, 

I pensively roam.

Or at the bright noontide 

In solitude I wander

Amid the dark shades 

Of the lonely Ash Grove

'Tis there that the blackbirds 

Are cheerfully singing

Each warbler enchants 

With his note from the tree

'Tis then little think I 

Of sorrow or sadness

The Ash Grove entrancing, 

Spells beauty for me.

She notes

This was a song we sang at (1942/45) at Girl Scout Camp, (Camp Scott at Locust Grove, Oklahoma).  It reminded me of the woods there, and I particularly loved this peaceful son.  01/2000 VLB

Apparently, Down Yonder Green Valley is a variant (among many) of a Welsh song first published in 1802, The Ash Grove.  Camp Scott was a Girl Scout camp.