Little Sally Saucer was a game I remember playing with my friends as young as 4 or 5. The game starts by sitting in a circle. W'at time, ole Witch? Might be familiar with this version, know more verses, and know who may have performed it. "Little Sally Walker Walking Down The Street" is an updated version of "Little Sally Walker". I started to say that I was surprised to learn that these children did not know the standard version of "Little Sally Walker". Little Sally Walkers' really WHITE. Come on, girl, shake that thing, /shake that thing like it ain't no thing. Subject: ADD Version: Little Sally Walker |. It is known as "Sally Walker" or "Sally Water. " And I would tell you.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN (Version #2) [movement rhyme]. But no matter what her aliases, in the United States, we played ring games with Little Sally. Little Sally Walker, Sitting in a saucer... Ride, Sally, ride, Wipe your weeping eyes, Turn to the East, Turn to the West, Turn to the one that you love best. In 1999 I observed African American elementary school aged girls in one area of Pittsburgh playing an updated version of Little Sally Walker, and in 2005 I observed elementary school African American girls who performing basically the same game in the same way in a widely separated area of Pittsburgh {"over the river and through the woods" LOL!! The storm it spared not a single man. "put your hands on your hip/let your backbone slip" is a floating verse that describes a certain dance step. Little Sally's got a lot of aliases.
Here's stands a blue bird. The leader sings everything but the last word of each line, which is reserved for the chorus [the rest of the singers]: Example 18. Here's a video of this singing game: Little Sally Walker:). I reached my toe forward, a playful nudge, a sideways grins. 2nd line & line 3 -"Sally" remains inside the circle but now rises to stand in the center part of the circle and does what the rhyme is saying(wipes her eyes); the rest of the group is now standing still and claps their hands and stomps their feet to the beat. As quoted by Lawrence W. Levine in Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom, 2007 (p. 198), Yoffie explained, "They [African American children] have syncopated the rhythm, and they accompany the hand-clapping with a 'jazz' and 'swing' rhythm of the body. "When the popular Trinidadian singer King Radio made a calypso hit of this song [Little Sally Waters] in the 1950s, he was using the most popular of all African American children's song games, playing all over the southern United States and the West Indies. But never in the middle of the circle) The last line was "shake it to the one that you love the best. I went to de well to wash my toe.
Anyway, here's how children in Pittsburgh sing "Little Sally": Little Sally Walker. And I'm one of her biggest fans. That group sang this children's rhyme as a preface to the Jump Blues song "Wang Dang Doodle". I meant to write "I have other references to this early European ritual of stepping over water as a purification or fertility symbol and will look for them and post them in this thread later". Anyhow, ole Sally Walker's all right by me. I came across one recording I really liked. And the next player who comes to the center now continues to move around the circle until he/she stands in front of someone else and switches places. Ooh girl do your thing.
Nor is this collection meant to imply that African Americans are the only ones to chant or sing these rings or similar rhymes. LITTLE SALLY WALKER (WALKING DOWN THE STREET), Version #3, (circle game). Bob the Postman, thanks for those lyrics. Explore features & content or buy copies of our songbooks - designed to create hope & change through singing.
Upthread, in 2006, I posted words to "Little Sally Walker Down in New Orleans. " Yes, he did a version on Pleasant Days. Little Sally Walker (or Water). This is off topic but the words they sang with accompanying motions were *. Head and shoulders baby. "Here Stands A Blue Bird" is a ring game with one person in the middle. I think Dick Greenhaus has them at CAMSCO. The term "ring games" usually is defined as "circle games". My words would not come forth. In the book "Shake It To The One That You Love The Best, Play Songs And Lullabies from Black Musical Traditions" {Cheryl Warren Mattox; California Warren Maddox Productions, 1989, p. 8}, version #2 of "Little Sally" mentions the "old man" and "ride Sally ride": Little Sally Walker, sittin' in a saucer, Cryin for the old man to come for the dollar. Nevertheless, Negro Folk Singing Games And Folk Games of the Habitants is still a very welcome source of examples of 19th century Southern African American ring games and folk tales. DESCRIPTION: "Little Sally Walker, sitting in (a saucer), Cryin' (for the old man to come for the dollar), (Ride, Sally, Ride). On "turn to the very one, " 'Sally' faces the one she chooses. Her real name was Sally Waters and she really came from Europe.
A significant number of slightly later settlers, mostly Scots-Irish, moved across North Carolina up into the Appalachians, and into Tennessee, Kentucky and then on to what is now West Virginia. In Harry's Blues Lyrics Online. Hurricane Katrina roared from the Gulf. From: Q (Frank Staplin). 5, the music volume, which has only two texts. Tryin' to get the old man to come back home. Sugar's on the floor!! ", they both stop movin. Fold it in a corner, **. Once it was the custom for British brides to step over a saucer of water on the way to their weddings; thus "Little Sally Water" may in its original form be a survival of early European beliefs about water and purification rituals"... LITTLE SALLY WALKER (Example #2) [Ring game]. So we [well, really I] chose the name "Brother Rico" [because it sounded Spanish, and seems contemporary 'hip'].
You're as much alive as I am. " The article includes lyrics from other songs and is quite interesting if you like to read about early Calypso. That's a fine motion, two by two. Here's a quote from Alan Lomax, J. G Elder, and Bess Lomax Hawes' Brown Girl In The Ring, an Anthology of Song Games from the Eastern Caribbean [New York, Pantheon Book, 1997, p. 140-141]. I did find notes on the song though. That excerpt is from the notes to Band 2, Items 1, 2, 6, and 7 Ring Games: Sally Died; Ronald McDonald; Zoodiac; Zing-Zing-Zing Washington, D. C., schoolgirls, vocals. This game is basically designed for little girls aged 5 and above as they absolutely love to dance and clap. Search the Enchanted Learning website for:|. Walkin down the alley alley alley. Hopefully, the children internalized the affirmation that "I'm just a good as you are" for the times when they would experience put downs as children, teens, and adults. Hawk Call): "I wants a chick". Here's how we sang about Little Sally Ann: Little Sally Ann. Pete is still with us - we all are carrying on his work. Just take me to a place where I can rest.
Or turn to the west. Chicken's Call): Chickamee chickamee, cranie-crow. Like every piece of traditional and folk culture, a handful of variants can be found in different time and space: instead of a Sally Walker it could be a Sally Waters or Sally Walters who is mentioned, or even a Sally Anne. From my reading, I gather that this children's game song originated as a British marriage and/or fertility ritual. Also, "Mammy" used the title "Going Round The Assembly" for this particular composition, but Grace Cleveland Porter called it "Bounce 'Round".
Draw me a bucket of water. She didn't know what to do. Rub your rosy cheeks, And shake it to the east and shake it to the west. Some 20 texts were collected and published in the U. between 1883 and 1976.