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Thread #5573   Message #3144949
Posted By: Steve Gardham
29-Apr-11 - 04:58 PM
Thread Name: Salvation Army comic song
Subject: RE: Salvation Army comic song
Here's a couple o' ditties first one sung to 'Happy birthday', second recited.

Sally's Army sells fish
Three ha'pence a dish
Don't try it, don't buy it
It stinks when you fry it,
Sally's Army sells fish.

Salvation Army free from sin
All went to heaven in a corn-beef tin
The corn beef tin was far too small,
The bottom fell out an' the Devil got 'em all.

I think this was used as a skipping rhyme in Hull in the 50s.