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Thread #3628   Message #19302
Posted By: Murray
16-Jan-98 - 03:12 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Sally in our Alley
Subject: RE: Sally in our Alley
A 7th verse [in Chappell, 648]: My master and the neighbours all, Make game of me and Sally, And but for her I'd better be A slave, and row a galley: But when my sev'n long years are out [= his apprenticeship], Oh, then I'll marry Sally, And then how happily we'll live-- But not in our alley.

Chappell expurgates here, for the penultimate line I've seen elsewhere is "Oh then we''l wed, and then we'll bed", or so.

Maggie Lauder--let me look this up.