children's chants--Rise SAlly

[Wilson Gray]

On Feb 14, 2005, at 9:51 AM, Ed Keer wrote:

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> Leadbelly recorded a version of this in the 40s as
> Little Sally Walker.

This sort of thing used to be quite common. Even as recently as the
'60's, a version of "Here We Go Looby-Loo" was recorded by Robert "Bob
B. Soxx" Breen (a fellow St. Louisan) & The Blue Jeans as "Here We Go
Loop-de-Loop." Around the same time, a recording was made of "Putting
and Ta'en," "Putnin-Tane," "Puddin-Tane," or however you may remember
it from your childhood.

-Wilson Gray

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> It's on this release: Party songs/Sings and Plays
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> http://www.oldies.com/product/view.cfm/id_56092.html
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> Probably recorded it elsewhere as well.
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> --- Maggie Thompson <mthom at RCN.COM> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
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