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Sally in Our Alley (song)

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Wikipedia article




"'Sally in Our Alley'" is a traditional British song, originally written by Henry Carey in 1725. It became a standard of British popular music over the following century.Johnson p.369 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.

Lyrics



The song has 7 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.'

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Bibliography



* 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.


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