Origins: Little Sally Walker Other Versions

Thursday, 11 July 2024

I had included an essay about Little Sally Walker in my submission for that grant. In parts of the Caribbean, she's known as "Little Sally Waters". The state probably still has a lower percentage of people of color than any other state east of the Mississippi. Thomas W. Talley, Negro Folk Rhymes, Wise And Otherwise(originally published in 1922), Gutenberg digital edition. That game may not be initiated by the students themselves but might be started at the suggestion or direction of a teacher (after a test or at the end of the school year) or a director of a theater production before the play's performance. The realization that rhymes might change because of where you live sparked my interest in rhyme collection, although I didn't "seriously begin collecting rhymes until the mid 1980s.

Little Sally Waters Sitting In A Saucer

I thought you meant this one, a circle game from my kindergarten days: Thread #13719 Message #747820. Wipe your weeping eyes. Also, "Mammy" used the title "Going Round The Assembly" for this particular composition, but Grace Cleveland Porter called it "Bounce 'Round". Parenthesis the words that are lines sung by group). I'll Keep looking for the lyrics. Alice B. Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland, " part 2, pp. Here's a video of this singing game: Little Sally Walker:). Cryin' and a-weepin'. My girl, Sally - she sure got around.

Soloist & group in unison: Well she lives in a place called Tennessee. I have included four below: Little Sally Walker. In other words, while the competitive nature of handslap games such as "Stella Ella Ola" and "Slap Billy Ola" make them more attractive to African American boys than non-competitive circle games, hand slap games (and handclap games) are generally considered to be girls games. Early uses of the term include the 1924 jazz recording by Johnny Bayersdorffer's Jazzola Novelty Orchestra entitled "I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Riding Now".... Courlander-NFM, p. 157, "(Little Sally Walker)" (1 text); p. 278, "Little Sally Walker" (1 text, 1 tune).

Song Little Sally Walker

Will I ever use the preview feature??? All of the online examples of this rhyme that I've found are titled "Little Sally Walker". Way down south in southern Louisiana. The soloist and the group repeat the same sequence with the mention of other relatives until "momma" is mentioned]. VIDEOS AND ADDITIONAL COMMENTS. Didn't I give those kids some more history! Might be familiar with this version, know more verses, and know who may have performed it. Inquiring minds wanna know. So, it's really hard to tell what the meaning and interpretation of this nursery rhyme is. From: GUEST, kirsten anderberg. I would like to get down to business and comment on Janie's friend's version of this game song and also post some versions of "Little Sally Walker" that I have found. And here's a note from my younger sister - I learned this song from her, and she learned it in Detroit in the mid-1950's. Here is another comment and example from Courlander [p. 152; "Negro Folk Music, USA"]: "Another ring game {Example 19} with the same response "satisfied" deals with another subject, but like the previous song {Example 18}. See this definition of "Easy Rider" that also includes a reference for "C. Rider": "In the early 20th century African American communities with conservative Baptist outlooks the term [C. Rider]came to mean a woman who had liberal sexual views, had been married more than once, or someone skilled at sex.

The purpose of the group is to explore the creative & performing arts potential of traditional, contemporary, and originally composed [mine] game songs, rhymes, and chants. Bob the Postman had referred to "Ain't Never Been Satisfied, " by Jim Kweskin in answering my original inquiry. The forces of variation at work in child lore have renamed her "Little Sally Walker" in the United Sttes and "Little Sandy Girl" in Trinidad. Multiple sources, including my observations of this game in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1969 to date. "Where I learned all these Ring -games, Honey?

Little Sally Walker Walking

Anyway, I don't care if Sally first came from White people. Use the citation below to add these lyrics to your bibliography: Style: MLA Chicago APA. All the children joined hands, and made a big ring (a circle), and went flying round (skipping fast) singing: Bounce around to-di-iddy-um, to-di-iddy-um, Bounce aroun' to-di-iddy-um. That you love best..... And then I showed off a little and gave those kids a history lesson. Well when I bumped with a craft, [girl].

Then when the song goes "Switch! Clingin' to each other hand in hand. Shake, shake Sally Walker. Shake it to the west (shake other hip to other side). "Switch" here means "change places with each other". See see rider, satisfied! Leelah smiled coyly, a smattering of freckles splayed across her face, and a glint in her eye I'd never noticed before.

Little Sally Walker Sitting In A Sauver Son Couple

GREEN COLOR UP (circle game)*. With regard to the water, she describes an Estonian wedding custom in which the bride, on the morning after the wedding, is taken to make offerings to the water spirit. 2nd line & line 3 -"Sally" remains inside the circle but either arbitrarily or purposely stands in front of a person who is forming the circle and does a dance step or a movement such as "jumping jack". The rhyme category of the example is noted in parenthesis after the example's "title". HERE WE GO ROUND THE MOUNTAIN (game song). Gonna boogie for you. "[Mr] Rabbit {had a mighty bad habit}". She didn't know what to do, so/she jumped in front of me and said: 'Hey, girl, shake that thing, /shake that thing like it ain't no thing. From notes to the vinyl album Mother Hippletoe: Rural and Urban Children's Songs, written by Kate Rinzler (album published by New World Records, NW 291 MONO, 1978)... "In ring games the players may sit on the ground, stand in place, or move.

The game song "Johnny Cuckoo" is described in "Step It Down" as a "courtship play". She didn't know what to do so she stood in front of me. So she stopped in front of me. West Virginia was settled primarily by people from the British Isles. For a nice young man. Turn to the east - Spin in one direction with right arm extended and index finger pointing at students in the circle. So, you know what I did? Rise, Sallie, rise, Wipe off your eyes, Fly to the East, Fly to the West, Fly to the very one.

Little Sally Walker Sitting On A Saucer

However, because there are very few people of Spanish descent in Pittsburgh, children don't know the word "senorita". Apparently, Sally Water was fairly widespread in the U. S. and Canada. Now, is this akin to jumping over broom handles or some other marriage tradition, I don't really know. The other two variants in the DT do not have midis attached. On Pete Seeger Song & Play Time, Lead Belly Sings for Children.

Walker collected mainly from people's memories; the rhyme he cites may have been from a childhood in the British Isles and not from America. Frog in the bucket and I can't get him out. Thanks to all who have contributed these rhyme examples. The center player meanwhile reaches around the waist and feels the hands of each ring player in turn; she too may go in either direction, but she may not skip players nor run back and forth across the ring. The words "flying around" in the sentence [given in Standard English], and they all just go flying around", means "moving very fast". If you love it clap your hands.

3rd line-on the word "Stop! " Take me to the east, take me to west. Sounds of the South: A Musical Journey from the Georgia Sea Islands to the Mississippi Delta (4 Disc CD, Disc 4), 1961. But this heroine of black girlhood in the new world has her roots in ancient British lore. Shakin' it Sally Walker. You might also like: ||The Little Girl with a Curl||Ten O'Clock Scholar||London Bridge is Falling Down - Rebus Rhymes||Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary||Betty Botter||Today's featured page: Label Mushroom Diagram Printout|.

This post also includes a quote about African American ring games and as well as my general comments about these rhymes. "If it sounded good or sounded right--then multiple voices would be just right! Here we go, ridin' that pony, this is how we do it: Front to front to front, oh, baby. In my direct experiences, girls self-initiate this game and it is usually only played by girls. Here's a video of this ring game: Bilbrey Draw Me a Bucket of Water. A person is designated as the "Caller" and remains the caller for the entire game. On a cold and stormy night? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Barbara Ray (African American female), memories of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1950s), collected by Azizi Powell, 1998. How to play the game? However, I've read elsewhere that some children performed "Mary Mack" as a jump rope rhyme. Oh shake it to the west. I. Sally, Sally Water, Sprinkle in the pan; Rise, Sally, rise, Sally, And choose a young man. Bob-a-needle is a running. Camping is a fun and educational experience that often develops long-lasting friendships.