ADD: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (bawdy)

Subject: Lyr Add: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (PG13)
From: and e
Date: 21 Jun 23 - 06:57 AM

Did you ever see Sally make water
She she pisses a wonderfull stream
Well it goes for a mile and a quarter
But you can't see her ass for the steam

She raised her ass up towards heaven
And let out a wonder full pee
Well it looked like a cave in the mountain
But it smelled like dead fish in the sea.

Transcribed from the following video: Citico String Band - DID YOU EVER SEE SALLY MAKE WATER

You tube video online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btErMOLSVyA


Variants and references to follow.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (PG13)
From: and e
Date: 21 Jun 23 - 07:03 AM

Did you ever see Sally make water
She pisses beautiful stream
[.......] a mile and quarter
You cant see her ass for the steam

Lacuna is because of background noise in the recording. I don't know what is sung.

Transcribed from Giffordmusic.net collection online here:

https://www.giffordmusic.net/MP3/BigfordDidYouEverSeeSallyMakeWater.mp3

Any help identifying the tune used in the recordings is appreciated.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (PG13)
From: and e
Date: 21 Jun 23 - 07:05 AM

Did you ever see Miss Margaret boil water?
Man, she hisses a wonderful stream,
Seventeen miles and a quarter,
Man, and you can't see her pot for the steam..."

An expurgated version from Ralph Elison's Invisible Man

See here: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=49690

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: HAVE YOU EVER SEEN NELLIE MAKE WATER?
From: and e
Date: 21 Jun 23 - 07:07 AM

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN NELLIE MAKE WATER?

Have you ever seen Nellie make water?
She pisses a hell of a stream.
She shoots it a mile and quarter,
And you can't see her ass for the steam!

Pg 56, an Untitled Marine songbook ca 1943.

See online here: https://archive.org/details/1943untitledmarinesongbook/page/56/mode/1up

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (PG13)
From: and e
Date: 21 Jun 23 - 07:09 AM

Did you every see Sally make water;
she can pee such a beautiful stream;
she can pee on your foot as you day dream;
oh, she runs the water machine.

Pg 88, A Story of the Fifth Longest Held POW in US History, 2012, by Ray Vohden.

https://books.google.com/books?id=-Md_sqRw4GEC&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=%22see+sally+make+water%22&source=bl&ots=kBChSes1L2&sig=ACfU3U1E06WdI_tfiONP2-UqvlV-4KnbnQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixw4mbk9P_AhWglGoFHcpjCBYQ6AF6BAgpEAM

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (PG13)
From: and e
Date: 21 Jun 23 - 07:11 AM

SONG NO. 12
NELLIE

I love to see Nellie make water
She pisses a beautiful stream
She shoots it a mile and a quarter
And you can't see her asshole for stream.

Pg 10, A Collection of Sea Songs and Ditties by Dave E Jones, [1928].

See online here: https://archive.org/details/1928acollectionofseasongsandditties/page/10/mode/1up

Subject: RE: Mrs Murph's Daughter (w/see Mary Make Water)
From: and e
Date: 21 Jun 23 - 07:13 AM

MRS. MURPHY'S DAUGHTER

Mrs. Murphy, Where's your daughter?
We came over to have some fun,
She's upstairs a makin' water,
She'll be down when she is done.

I love to see Mary make water,
She can pee such a beautiful stream,
She can pee for a mile and a quarter,
You can't see her ass for the steam.

Pg 16, Devilcat Songs, 1953.

See online: https://archive.org/details/1953devilcatsongs/page/n15/mode/1up?q=water

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Did You Ever See Selly Make Water
From: and e
Date: 21 Jun 23 - 07:16 AM

52. Did you ever see Selly make water,
she has a terrible stream.
She piss's three miles and a quarter,
you could'nt see Selly for stream.

(Aus Hamburger Abtritten. 1906.)

Pg 322, Anthropophyteia, Vol. 4., 1907.

See online here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Anthropophyteia_jahrb%C3%BCcher_f%C3%BCr_folklor/5SegAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=make%20water

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (PG13)
From: and e
Date: 21 Jun 23 - 07:37 AM

"I love to see Mary Make water," he would sing, with tender yearning in his voice,

She can pee such a beautiful stree-ee-ee-eam.
She can pee for a mile and a quarter (long pause)
And you can't see her ass for the steam!

Pg 169, Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator by Samuel Lynn Hynes, 2005.


See online here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Flights_of_Passage/cJU3BW8k8hkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22love+to+see%22+%2B%22make+water%22+rhyme+OR+song+OR+ditty&pg=PA169&printsec=frontcover

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (PG13)
From: cnd
Date: 21 Jun 23 - 08:13 AM

Your lacuna from the second song sounds to me like "She pisses three miles and a quarter," though it is tough to hear.

Devilcat Songs and a comment on the first youtube video note the tune as "My Bonnie." The Giffordmusic one sounds very reminiscent of Old Rosin the Beau. The Citico Band's one is close, but a bit more freely sung, so it's hard for me to positively ID.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (PG13)
From: cnd
Date: 21 Jun 23 - 08:14 AM

I should clarify -- the comment on the first youtube video notes that their father sang it to the tune of My Bonnie, though Citico band obviously does not.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (PG13)
From: and e
Date: 21 Jun 23 - 07:51 PM

...how I had transformed a bawdy verse that I'd learned in my teens
from a respected pharmacist.

Did you ever see Miss Margaret make water?
She pisses a wonderful stream,
Seventeen miles and a quarter,
And you an't see here twat for the steam.

You can see what I did to those noble lines on p. 179 of IM [Invisible Man].

Pg 781, The Select Letters of Ralph Ellison

See online here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Selected_Letters_of_Ralph_Ellison/DapQDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22ever+see%22++%22make+water%22&pg=PA781&printsec=frontcover

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (PG13)
From: and e
Date: 21 Jun 23 - 08:53 PM

The version my extended family used to sing was even worse:

If I had the wings of an angel,
And a prick as white as snow,
I'd climb to the top of a mountain,
And piss on the people below.

I love to see Nellie make water,
She pisses a beautiful stream;
She shoots it a mile and a quarter,
And you can't see her asshole for steam.

I would welcome contributions. My family learned this ditty from noted
ornathologist and sailor Dennis Puleston of Brookhaven, Long Island, back in the 1940's.

Posted by GUEST,Roll&Go-C, 6 Feburary 2001.

See here: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=391367

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (PG13)
From: Acorn4
Date: 22 Jun 23 - 04:15 AM

My Grandad came out with this one once - no idea where he got it from.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (PG13)
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 22 Jun 23 - 06:17 AM

Btitish army variation on The Prisoner's Song / Meet me by Moonlight

If I had the wings of a angel
And the arse of a bloody great crow
I'd fly to the top of the drill sheds
And shit on the sergeants below

referring to the DRill Sergeants

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (PG13)
From: and e
Date: 22 Jun 23 - 09:10 AM

If I had the wings of an angel,
And a prick as white as snow,
I'd climb to the top of a mountain,
And piss on the people below.

I love to see Nellie make water,
She pisses a beautiful stream;
She shoots it a mile and a quarter,
And you can't see her asshole for steam

Transcribed from a field recording of untitled song sung by Charlie Noble, recorded Dec 9, 2004.

Download mp3 at Archive.org here:

https://ia804702.us.archive.org/9/items/0894%20If%20I%20Had%20The%20Wings%20Of%20An%20Angel%20%5BTune_%20The%20Prisoner%20Song%5D.mp3

The tune is "The Prisoner's Song"

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (PG13)
From: and e
Date: 22 Jun 23 - 04:34 PM

SALLY MAKE WATER

Oh have you ever seen Sally make water
She pisses a wonderful stream
And it goes for a mile and a quarter
You cant see her ass for the steam

She turned her ass up towards heaven
And she let out a wonderful pee
It look like a cave in the mountain
And it smelled like dead fish in the sea

Someone asks: "Is that all of that?"
Harper McBee's response: "Hell ain't that enough? My God!"

Transcribed from "Sally Make Water" sung by Hamper McBee. The youtube video is from
The Good Old-Fashioned Way: Hamper McBee of Monteagle, Tennessee.
The recordings on the CD were done by Charles Wolfe and Sol Korine in 1977-78
and the original field recordings are located in the Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)
Center for Popular Music archive.

See youtube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oaXBZn0b_8

The CD is available on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Good-Old-Fashioned-Way/dp/B003NGK8X2

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (PG13)
From: GUEST,and e (no cookie)
Date: 23 Jun 23 - 09:58 AM

Did you ever see Sally make water?
She pisses a beautifull stream
she can piss a mile and quater
she's a regular pissing machine

From New York in the 1940s


Did you ever see Sally make water?
She pisses a beautifull stream
she can piss a mile and quater
you can't see her ass for the steam.

From Florica in the 1960s.


Have you seen our Sally make water
She sits and makes a flowing strream
She piddles 3 pints and a quarter
And you can't see her bottom for the steam

From an internet commentator, no date specified.

Three texts and provenances from Young-Girls in Echoland by Heather Warren-Crow and Andrea Jonsson.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Young_Girls_in_Echoland/5upIEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22sally+make+water%22&pg=PT36&printsec=frontcover

Subject: RE: ADD: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (bawdy)
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 05:40 PM

I heard it as:

Did you ever see Nelly make water
Down by the old mill stream?
She pissed for an hour and a quarter
You couldn't see Nelly for steam

Subject: RE: ADD: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (bawdy)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 19 Mar 25 - 08:24 PM

It is amazing to see this old bawdy party song rise to the top again.

"Roll & Go" and "Charley Noble" above were of course myself. I don't think I've ever led that song in public but, who knows, maybe the opportunity will arise.

Cheerily,
Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: ADD: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (bawdy)
From: and e
Date: 25 Apr 25 - 08:12 AM

Mrs. Murphy's Daughter

"Mrs. Murphy, where's your daughter?
We came over to have some fun."
"She's upstairs makin' water.
She'll be down when she is done."

I love to see Mary make water.
She can make such a beautiful stream.
She can pee for a mile and a quarter.
You can't see her ass for the steam.

Harry A. Taussig collected this in Berkeley, between 1958 and 1963.
The first verse turns up in "Songs of Raunch and Ill-Repute's version
of "The Winnepeg Whore" (p. 28).

Reference from Ed Cray's notes for the Erotic Muse III.

See here: https://archive.org/details/ed-cray-collection-aka-erotic-muses-iii/page/64/mode/1up?q=%22make+water%22

Subject: RE: ADD: Did You Ever See Sally Make Water (bawdy)
From: and e
Date: 25 Apr 25 - 08:17 AM

I learned this from Dave F******** a few years ago. I don't know what
the source tune is (indeed, I suspect it changes a bit each time we
sing it), but it's in 3/4. I've since seen it in some bawdy
collections on my shelves, sometimes lacking the Lydia interlude
(which seems to have slipped my mind too for the moment: what's there
is approximate)

The sexual life of the camel
is stranger than anyone thinks
when the camel starts to get passionate
he starts to make love to the sphinx
But the sphinx's celestial anatomy
is crammed with the sands of the Nile
Which accounts for the hump on the camel
and the sphinx's
inscrutable smile.

Oh....

when Lydia goes to make water
she shoots an incredible stream
she pisses for hours and hours
till you can't see the stars through the steam

Which has nothing to do with the camel
Or the . (?)
But is only a (brief intermission)
Till the chorus comes round once again:

Oh..
The sexual life

Reference from Ed Cray's notes for the Erotic Muse III.


See here: https://archive.org/details/ed-cray-collection-aka-erotic-muses-iii/page/36/mode/1up?q=%22make+water%22