"Sally in Our Alley" is a traditional English song, originally written by Henry Carey in 1725.[citation needed] It became a standard of British popular music over the following century.[1] The expression also entered popular usage, giving its name to a 1902 Broadway musical and several films including Sally in Our Alley, the 1931 screen debut of Gracie Fields, in which she sang a different song named "Sally".
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Lyrics
editThe song has seven verses, the first of which is:
Of all the girls that are so smart
There 's none like pretty Sally;
She is the darling of my heart,
And she lives in our alley.
There is no lady in the land
Is half so sweet as Sally;
She is the darling of my heart,
And she lives in our alley.[2]
Arrangements
editLudwig van Beethoven- 25 Scottish Folksongs Op 108 no 25
Frank Bridge (1916)- arrangement for string orchestra
References
edit- ^ Johnson p.369
- ^ "444. Sally in our Alley. Henry Carey. The Oxford Book of English Verse". www.bartleby.com. Retrieved 2021-08-26.
Bibliography
edit- Helen Kendrick Johnson. Our Familiar Songs and Those who Made Them: Three Hundred Standard Songs of the English-speaking Race, Arranged with Piano Accompaniment, and Preceded by Sketches of the Writers and Histories of Their Songs, Volume 1. H. Holt, 1881.
External links
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- Sally in Our Alley ·performed by Benjamin Britten (piano) and Peter Pears (tenor) in 1964, Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBRlJP-GfY
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