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22 Sep 97 - 01:05 AM (#12805) Subject: Lyr. req: Sally Ann From: tah@cts.com Anyone have the lyrics to "Sally Ann", the one to the tune of "Sail Away Ladies"? Messages from multiple threads combined. |
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22 Sep 97 - 11:13 AM (#12813) Subject: Lyr Add: SALLY ANN From: dick greenhaus Well, Rufus Crisp used to sing it as Blue Goose Wait in the meadow till the blue goose come (3x) Shoot him with a rifle gun. Prettiest gal in the county, O (3x) I could of had ;er if I wanted o' Sift your wheat and save your bran (3x) Come to the wedding, Sally Ann On a Folkways recording titled Rufus Crisp |
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19 Mar 99 - 08:30 AM (#64242) Subject: Lyrics req: Sally Ann From: for Hotspur Subject: Lyrics to From: hotspur Date: 18-Mar-99 - 02:41 PM
I'm looking for the lyrics to a song called "Sally Anne". The chorus goes something like this: Who's gonna dance with Sally Anne? Who's gonna touch her tremblin' hand? When the fiddler takes the stand, Who's gonna dance with Sally Anne?
Thanks in advance for any help on this. |
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08 Apr 99 - 12:24 AM (#69003) Subject: lyr req: Sally Ann From: tah@cts.com Anyone have the lyrics to the Ballad of Sally Ann? The one that goes:
Who's gonna dance with Sally Ann Much obliged, Terry in San Diego |
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08 Apr 99 - 06:17 AM (#69057) Subject: Lyr Add: SALLY ANNE From: Wolfgang copy&pasted from http://www.runet.edu/~bluegrass/songs/sallyanne.html Wolfgang
SALLY ANNE
With love in his heart and flowers in his hand,
Johnny got married in his one good suit, (Chorus)
Who's gonna dance with Sally Anne?
Sally attends every wedding 'round here, Chorus
Sail away ladies, sail away. Chorus Repeat |
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08 Apr 99 - 10:01 AM (#69110) Subject: RE: lyr req: Sally Ann From: terry Vielen Dank, Wolfgang!! |
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16 Mar 05 - 12:21 PM (#1436162) Subject: RE: lyr req: Sally Ann From: Teggere SALLY ANNE Traditional With love in his heart and flowers in his hand, Johnny proposed to Sally Anne. And Sally shivered as she said, I'll love you till the day I'm dead. Johnny got married in his one good suit, But the ride from the church bore strange fruit. Down by the road, you can hear her cry. That they hung from a tree, she watched him die. ( could be they hung him from a tree) (Chorus) Who's gonna dance with Sally Anne? Who's gonna touch her tremblin' hand? When the fiddler takes the stand, Who's gonna dance with Sally Anne? Sally attends every wedding 'round here, Looking for her Johnny dear. You can feel them in the room, If the fiddler plays that tune. Chorus Sail away ladies, sail away. Sail away ladies, sail away. Doc and Cellos cross the floor. (probably darkened shadows cross the floor) Ghostly love, a dance once more. When the wedding bells ring in that town, A ghostly virgin strolls the ground.
-Joe Offer- |
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16 Mar 05 - 12:24 PM (#1436166) Subject: Lyr Add: SALLY ANNE From: Teggere SALLY ANNE Traditional With love in his heart and flowers in his hand, Johnny proposed to Sally Anne. And Sally shivered as she said, I'll love you till the day I'm dead. Johnny got married in his one good suit, But the ride from the church bore strange fruit. Down by the road, you can hear her cry. That they hung from a tree, she watched him die. ( could be they hung him from a tree) (Chorus) Who's gonna dance with Sally Anne? Who's gonna touch her tremblin' hand? When the fiddler takes the stand, Who's gonna dance with Sally Anne? Sally attends every wedding 'round here, Looking for her Johnny dear. You can feel them in the room, If the fiddler plays that tune. Chorus Sail away ladies, sail away. Sail away ladies, sail away. Doc and Cellos cross the floor. (probably darkened shadows cross the floor) Ghostly love, a dance once more. When the wedding bells ring in that town, A ghostly virgin strolls the ground.
-Joe Offer- |
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16 Mar 05 - 04:59 PM (#1436361) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sally Ann From: GUEST,TikTok If that Sally Anne is traditional, I'll eat my hat. Sourcing? The ballad form has obvious literary touches, and I bet it was written in the past twenty years. |
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16 Mar 05 - 08:25 PM (#1436519) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sally Ann From: Teggere I don't know, I am just getting into Bluegrass music, and I found Sally Ann listed, but I don't believe it's all there, maybe it's not a written song, maybe it's handed down, and sung this way, or that way depending on the band. |
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16 Mar 05 - 11:10 PM (#1436619) Subject: RE: lyr req: Sally Ann (tune: Sail Away Ladies) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Who is the author of the 'strange fruit' verse? |
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16 Mar 05 - 11:35 PM (#1436636) Subject: RE: lyr req: Sally Ann (tune: Sail Away Ladies) From: Teggere I have been trying to find the correct words to the bore strange fruit verse for days now. I have looked high and low on the net, but nobody seems to know. I was offering suggestions as to what it might be. |
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17 Mar 05 - 01:47 PM (#1437029) Subject: RE: lyr req: Sally Ann (tune: Sail Away Ladies) From: Q (Frank Staplin) The lyrics of the 'strange fruit' version has little to do with the old fiddle tune; I agree with Tiktok that it is modern, perhaps with a wee bit of a steal from Abel Meerapol (Lewis Allan). Probably by Mark Johnson and Clawgrass- Thread 13719, post by Margo: Sally Ann |
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17 Mar 05 - 06:52 PM (#1437234) Subject: RE: lyr req: Sally Ann (tune: Sail Away Ladies) From: Teggere An old fiddle tune with no lyr? |
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17 Mar 05 - 07:08 PM (#1437243) Subject: RE: lyr req: Sally Ann (tune: Sail Away Ladies) From: Q (Frank Staplin) ? See post by Barry Finn at top of thread 13719 for some proper lyrics. Sally Ann (Not the new song with the strange fruit) |
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24 Sep 05 - 02:13 AM (#1569683) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sally Ann (tune: Sail Away Ladies) From: GUEST,Danny Brown The first version of the lyrics posted above are the same as the version on Mark O'Connor's "New Nashville Cats" that came out in 1990. The version is pretty fast, but the vocalist named John Coawn sings a really nice vocal track with pretty good annunciation. The words are the same. I think that I'm going to record a version of this. Danny Brown |
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24 Sep 05 - 11:22 AM (#1569810) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sally Ann (tune: Sail Away Ladies) From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Cute song, nicely atmospheric, but not in the least traditional. It's a modern literary-style exercise -- I haven't seen the O'Connor record, but I bet if you check the composer credits it might be illuminating. It basically forms a whole new song based on a single tag from the REALLY traditional "Sally Ann" and a single line from the traditional "Sail Away Ladies." Kinda hate to see such a song, whatever its merits, credited as "traditional" when it's clearly not. Reminds me of John Jacob Niles sneaking his compositions into the folkstream by pretending he'd collected them somewhere vague from someone even vaguer. Of course it's getting to be "traditional" to call something "traditional" even when it isn't. How much less traditional can you get? :) Bob |
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10 Nov 05 - 10:14 AM (#1601438) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sally Ann (tune: Sail Away Ladies) From: GUEST OK, on Mark O'Connor's CD it says: (Traditional) Arrangement by: Mark O'Connor and Harry Stinson Lyrics by: Alice Randall, Harry Stinson, Mark O'Connor It lists publishing as: Mark O'Connor Music / Tree Publishing Co, Inc. BMI Sony Tunes Inc. ASCAP It's interesting to note that it has both BMI and ASCAP listed! It's probebly an old fiddle tune that has been adapted. You can't go by the publishing and info on a CD or anything else really. Just think how A.C. Carter ripped off every traditional song he could find and claimed them. This is essentially how BMI was formed. By the way: The correct lyrics in the last verse are: Darkened shadows cross the floor and not Doc and Cellos cross the floor. Although it conjures up visions of some old guy named Doc and ghostly cellos (kinda' like fiddles) those are not the lyrics. and... the line "bore strange fruit" is/was a commonly used phrase that refers to the Bible's reference of Adam eating the apple. That is probebly the oldest line in the song! DB |
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11 Nov 05 - 09:27 AM (#1602285) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sally Ann (tune: Sail Away Ladies) From: GUEST,Pete Peterson Doesn't anybody besides me think of Billy Holliday when the phrase "strange fruit" is used, especially in the context of lynching? (Yip Harburg wrote the actual words IIRC but it's Billie's song) |
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11 Nov 05 - 06:21 PM (#1602671) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sally Ann (tune: Sail Away Ladies) From: Ebbie Not until a month ago did I hear Sally Ann played and sung to the tune of Sail Away Ladies. The lyrics were not familiar to me. Sail Away Ladies has its own lyrics- whuzzup with that? The Sally Ann (sister to Liza Jane?) I have known for years is an A tune, and the lyrics, which hardly anyone sings, talk about a muskrat. |
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11 Nov 05 - 07:30 PM (#1602716) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sally Ann (tune: Sail Away Ladies) From: GLoux Did you ever see a muskrat, Sally Ann Dragging his slick tail through the sand? |
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27 Nov 05 - 05:38 AM (#1614571) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sally Ann (tune: Sail Away Ladies) From: GUEST,Don Ebbie....where did you hear the song/ tune. There are so many different versions of Sally Ann. And there isn't .10 cents worth of difference between a couple of the versions of Sally Ann and Sail Away Ladies. |
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20 Jul 08 - 09:58 PM (#2393779) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sally Ann (tune: Sail Away Ladies) From: Azizi For those who may not be familiar with the song Strange Fruit, here's a excerpt from that song's wikipedia page: Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday. It condemned American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans that had occurred chiefly in the South but also in the North for decades before this was written. Holiday's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1978.[2] It was also included in the list of Songs of the Century, by the Recording Industry of America and the National Endowment for the Arts... "Strange Fruit" Single by Billie Holiday A-side Fine and Mellow Released 1939 Format 78 rpm Recorded April 20, 1939[1] Genre Blues Label Commodore Writer(s) Abel Meeropol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit Also, here's a link to a YouTube video of Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs "Rare Live Footage of one of the firtst anti rascism songs ever" [sic] |
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26 Jul 08 - 12:33 PM (#2398337) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sally Ann (tune: Sail Away Ladies) From: GUEST,Bassmanbbn4 Here is The Ballad of Sally Anne as performed by The Country Sisters which features Linda playing a 'hot' fiddle. The lyrics are in there too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peR0LsjWrRc |
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26 Jul 08 - 12:59 PM (#2398343) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sally Ann (tune: Sail Away Ladies) From: Azizi Here's that hyperlink,Bassmanbbn4 Thanks for letting folks know about this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peR0LsjWrRc |