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Thread #3628   Message #18676
Posted By: dulcimer
04-Jan-98 - 10:25 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Sally in our Alley
Subject: Lyr Add: SALLY IN OUR ALLEY
First, Bruce O.--is Moggy Lowther (tune) an early version of the Scottish tune Maggie Lauder?

Second, here are six verses, unfortunately I cut off the source:

Of all the girls that are so smart
There's none like pretty Sally,
She is the darling of my heart,
And she lives in our alley.
There is no lady in the land
That's half so sweet as Sally
She is the darling of my heart
And lives in our alley.

Her father he makes cabbage-nets
And through the streets does cry 'em;
Her mother she sells laces long
To such as please to buy 'em;
But sure such folks could ne'er beget
So sweet a girl as Sally!
She is the darling of my heart
And lives in our alley.

When she is by, I leave my work,
I love her so sincerely:
My master comes like any Turk,
And bangs me most severely,
But let her bang his bellyful,--
I'll bear it all for Sally;
For she's the darling of my...

Of all the days that's in the week,
I dearly love but one day,
And that's the day that comes betwixt
The Saturday and Monday;
For then I'm drest all in my best,
To walk abroad with Sally,
She is the darling...

My master carries me to church
And often am I blamed
Because I leave him in the lurch
As soon as text is named;
I leave the church in sermon-time
And l slink away to Sally
She is the darling...

When Christmas comes about again,
Oh, then I shall have money!
I'll hoard it up, and box and all,
I'll give it to my honey;
Oh, would it were ten thousand pound!
I'd give it all to Sally:
For she's the darling . . .

Magdi--I have an unsubstantiated note that the song may have been sung to the tune for Jock O'Hazeldean.

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