Sally in Our Alley (song)

An 1886 illustration of the song.

"Sally in Our Alley" is a traditional British song, originally written by Henry Carey in 1725. It became a standard of British popular music over the following century.^[1] The expression also entered popular usage, giving its name to a 1902 Broadway musical and several films including Sally in Our Alley, the 1931 screen debut of Gracie Fields.

Lyrics[]

The song has 7 verses. The first of which is

Of all the girls that are so smart

  There 's none like pretty Sally;

She is the darling of my heart,

  And she lives in our alley.

There is no lady in the land         

  Is half so sweet as Sally;

She is the darling of my heart,

  And she lives in our alley.^[2]

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Helen Kendrick Johnson. Our Familiar Songs and Those who Made Them: Three Hundred Standard Songs of the English-speaking Race, Arranged with Piano Accompaniment, and Preceded by Sketches of the Writers and Histories of Their Songs, Volume 1. H. Holt, 1881.

External links[]

• Sally in Our Alley ·performed by Benjamin Britten (piano) and Peter Pears (tenor) in 1964, Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBRlJP-GfY

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