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Thread #35817   Message #491093
Posted By: GUEST
24-Jun-01 - 11:05 PM
Thread Name: the soldier/minstral boy
Subject: RE: the soldier/minstral boy
"Sally in our alley" (Of all the girls that are so smart) is by Henry Carey. The tune seems to be first found in Walsh's 'Compleat Country Dancing Master', II, 1719, and later in ballad operas. Words and music in Carey's 'Musical Century', 1737.

I think there's an old thread here on the 'Minstrel Boy'