Origins: Little Sally Walker Other versions

Subject: RE: Origins: Little Sally Walker Other versions
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Oct 16 - 07:29 AM

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Subject: RE: Origins: Little Sally Walker Other versions
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jun 18 - 09:39 PM

This is the way I learned it way back in the 60’s:
Poor Sally Walker
Sitting in a saucer
Cry Sally cry
Wipe your weeping eyes
Put your hands on your hips and let your backbone flip
Oh shake it to the east oh shake it to the west
Shake it to the one that you love the best
Turn to the east, turn to the west
Turn to the one that you love the best!

Subject: RE: Origins: Little Sally Walker Other versions
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Aug 19 - 08:21 PM

Watch "Little Sally Walker funk disco version" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/wJ9cVHVKqeA

Subject: RE: Origins: Little Sally Walker Other versions
From: John C. Bunnell
Date: 15 Aug 19 - 02:21 AM

Interesting thread. Here's yet one more lyric to complicate the equation:

"Oh, little Sally Waters, sitting in the sun,
A-crying and weeping for a young man;
Oh, rise, Sally, rise, wipe your eye out with your frock;
That's sung by the babies, a-living on our block."

That's one of the refrains for a song from the 1870s called "The Babies On Our Block", by Ed Harrigan and Dave Braham.

Sheet music from the NYPL here.

Modern recording by Mick Moloney here.