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Sing Sally O

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Colcord (Roll and Go) gives only the first version of this, and other, "negro shanties", which seem to have originated in stowing cotton, but proved useful aboard ships as well.

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O I say my Mammy Dinah,
What is the matter?
Ch:
Sing Sally O; Fol-lol-de-day O hurrah hurrah!
Ch: My Mammy Dinah, Sing Sally O; Fol-lol-de-day

O have you heard the news to-day?
For we are homeward bound.

From English Folk-Chanteys by Cecil Sharp (1914)

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Roud Index: 4699
DT Index: 5351
Hauling shanty, Halyard shanty

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