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Thread #55948   Message #4082325
Posted By: Joe Offer
07-Dec-20 - 07:19 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Sally Gee: The lass down on the quay
Subject: Origins: Sally Gee
Can anybody tell us about this song:

SALLY GEE (DT Lyrics)

I'll tell you of a nice young lass and her name is Sally Gee,
I met her in the pub one night, it was down on the quay.
I says to her well I know your face but a divvent knaa from where.
So I asked where abouts she lived and she said down Carliol Square.

Cho: But never mind, the lass she's kind, I knaa she is good hearted,
And the cast in her eye makes her look shy and I wish we never had parted.
She's got a hump and she walks with stick and she's always good to me.
I'm fond of the lass that none can pass, the lass down on the quay.

Every neet I used to meet me Sally on the quay.
I asked her if she'd marry me if she'd be good to me.
How long it is since she washed herself well I'm sure I divvent knaa.
'Cos she's got a face like an old spice cake, as black as any craa.

Chorus:

Well it was all through her I went on the drink, I went headlong to the bad.
I pawned me watch and I pawned me chain, that was everything I had.
And then next morn the landlord appeared and he hoyed us through the door.
And I spent six months in Durham Gaol with me clothes put into store.

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Mainly Norfolk has a penultimate verse that we don't have in the Digital Tradition:
Here's a recording by Little Billy Fane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ImRn1taTQ