Children's rhymes (1969); Old Maid Lemonade (1878)

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:41 PM -0600 2/9/05, Mullins, Bill wrote:
>Does the line in "Mustang Sally" "ride Sally ride" call back to "rise
>Sally rise"??

I thought it called forward to the astronaut.

L

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>>  On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:59 AM, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>>
>>  >
>>  > Little Sally Saucer
>>  > Sitting in the water
>>  > Rise, Sally, rise
>>  > Wipe off your eyes Sally.
>  > >
>>
>>  An alternative version from East Texas (I learned it there,
>>  but, given that variations of this variation appear in black
>>  pop music, e.g. the couplet, "Put your hands on your hips /
>>  And let your backbone slip"
>>  occurs in the 1959 song, "The Booty Green," I think that it
>>  is/was universal amongst the colored. Since I learned this
>>  from my mother, who's now 91, I'd guess that this version is
>>  probably at least a century old.)
>>
>>  Little Sally Walker
>>  Sitting in a saucer
>>  Rise, Sally, Rise
>>  Wipe your weeping eyes
>>  Put your hands on your hips
>>  And let your backbone slip
>>  Shake it to the east
>>  Shake it to the west
>>  Shake it to the one
>>  You love the best
>>
>>  -Wilson Gray
>>