The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #72584   Message #4072045
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
16-Sep-20 - 01:19 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: 'Sally Brown'
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Sally Brown'
Olive Lewin (Jamaican folklorist) gives this song in her study of JA traditional material _Rock It Come Over_ (2000), which she recorded in 1968.

Sally was a whorin' mulatta
    Oh Sally
Sally was a whorin' mulatta
    Oh Sally
Sally sweet a day, Sally sweet a night
Sally sweet a day, Sally sweet a night
Sally was a whorin' mulatta
    Oh Sally

Work was performed on "Oh Sally."

It was used for hauling houses, which were propped onto logs and to which the ropes were attached.