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GUEST,Phil d'Conch Lyr Add: 'Sally Brown' (35) RE: Lyr Add: 'Sally Brown' 17 Apr 24


Another show biz version, lyrics are a closer fit to the new model. I've edited out most of the running comedy skit that goes with:

“The seamen as usual lighten their labor with song and chorus, and the one they sang on our old ship was peculiarly musical, the chorus of "Old Sally Brown" being given by the whole crew with great emphasis. I took my seat on the upper deck, and listened.

"Heave away there forward."
“Ay, ay, Sir.”

[Sailors.]
        "Sally Brown, oh my dear Sally,
                Oh Sally Brown.        [Chorus.]
        Sally Brown of Bubble Alley,
                Oh Sally Brown."

        "I went to town to get some toddy,
                Oh Sally Brown,
        'Twasn't fit for any body
                Oh Sally Brown!"

        “Sally is a bright Mullattar,
                Oh Sally Brown,
        Pretty girl, but can't get at her,
                Oh Sally–––––”

        “Seven years I courted Sally,
                Oh Sally Brown,
        Seven more of Shilly Shally,
                Oh Sally Brown.
        She won't wed–––––”

        "She won't wed a Yankee Sailor,
                Oh Sally Brown."

        "Sally Brown-oh, my dear Sally,
                Oh Sally Brown;
        Sally Brown of Bubble Alley,
                Oh Sally Brown;
        Sally was a cross old Granny,
                Oh––––––––––”

["Drifting About", Or, What "Jeems Pipes, of Pipesville," Saw-and-did: An Autobiography, Massett, Mullen, 1863]

Stephen C. Massett (1820-1898) - one of, if not the, first minstrel/vaudeville players in San Francsico.


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