Okay, I'd like to comment on Janie's first post in this thread.

Like so many children's rhymes {and other African American songs] this song appears to be a number of lines from traditional songs [rhymes] that are strung together with some 'new' words and phrases added..

Let's break it on down:

1. "Tryin' to get the Old Man to come back home with the dollar".
   ...Gotta ride, Sally...

In the book "Shake It To The One That You Love The Best, Play Songs And Lullabies from Black Musical Traditions" {Cheryl Warren Mattox; California Warren Maddox Productions, 1989, p. 8}, version #2 of "Little Sally" mentions the "old man" and "ride Sally ride":

Little Sally Walker, sittin' in a saucer,
Cryin for the old man to come for the dollar.
Ride, Sally, Ride.
Put your hands on your hips
And let your backbone slip.
And fly to the east, and fly to the west,
and fly to the one that you love the bets.
Ah, shake [it] to the east, ah, shake it to the west.
Ah, shake it to the one that you love the best.

-snip-

I think the "ride with your head up high" is a new addition, perhaps prompted by the Black pride/self-esteem movement that talked encouraged individuals to be proud of they are and to hold their head up high [as opposed to holding their head down in a subservient posture]

"put your hands on your hip/let your backbone slip" is a floating verse that describes a certain dance step.

My speculation about the meaning of "tryin to get the old man to come home with the dollar" is that this line is from adult [reels/blues] songs and refers to a woman's husband [or partner] who has made some money that he should be bringing straight home instead of doing other things with it [like going to bars or gambling]...
"My old man' is still used as a referent for one's male lover and it has nothing to do with chronological age, btw.

2}"I ain't never, no never been satisfied....satisfied."
There is a game song/rhyme that was included in Harold Courlander's book "Negro Folk Songs, USA" [or some such title]. I will look it up and post later...

3. "Hey Mr. Rabbit, you got a mighty habit"..
   This is a often published, once very popular but sadly now seldom
   known or performed Rabbit song. It's probably included on some
   Mudcat thread. I or someone else will look it up and post
   later...

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There's more I would love to say about good ole Little Sally-I mean I haven't even bought her sister "Little Sally Ann" into the discussion yet. But I guess I better slow my roll and give someone else a chance to share their versions of and insights about this song.

But I shall return!


Positive vibrations,

Azizi