children's chants--Rise SAlly

[Maggie Thompson]

I remember from my grade-school days (1948-54) a playground game that
featured the chant about "Sally."  The kids formed a circle, "Sally"
crouched in the middle, and the circle kids chanted:

little Sally Ann
Sitting in the sand
Crying, crying,
For a young man.

(the kid playing "Sally" would pretend to cry)

Rise, Sally, rise
Wipe your crying eyes.
Turn to the east and
Turn to the west and
Turn to the one that
You love best.

("Sally" would act this out, pick another kid, who then went into the middle
and it all started over.)

There may have been more to this, but I don't remember it.  I grew up in
Elizabeth, PA, about 15 miles from Pittsburgh, by the way.

Maggie Thompson