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Thread #31335   Message #619161
Posted By: Charley Noble
31-Dec-01 - 04:52 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Bully in the Alley
Subject: Lyr Add: BULLY IN THE ALLEY / LOST AND GIVEN OVER
Another miscellaneous reference to "Bully in the Alley" can be found, in all places, in an Australian nautical poem called "Lost and Given Over" by E. J. Brady (1869-1952) in The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads, edited by Russel Ward. The final verse runs:

The Hoogli gal 'er face is brown,
The Hilo gal's a daisy,
The gal that lives by 'Obart town
She'd drive a dead man crazy;
So, pretty and plain, it's Sarah Jane
'Uggin' and kissin' an' "Come again!"
Sing rally, ri-a-rally!
The seas is deep; the seas is wide;
But this I'll prove what else betide,
I'm bully in the alley,
Ho! Bull-ee in the Al-lee!