Pretty Sally- Allison (FL) c.1880 Morris
[From Morris; Florida Folk Songs, 1950. The first line is wed to the second stanza, resulting in no rhyme. The second stanza is a middle stanza.
R. Matteson Jr. 2014]
177. THE BROWN GIRL
(Child, No. 295)
"Pretty Sally." Text collected from the singing of Mr. J. L. Allison, Live Oak, who learned it about seventy years ago when he was a boy living in the Suwannee River territory.
There was a rich squire, from Ireland he came;
Away to court Sally, away he did steer.
Her fortune's so great and her portions so high,
That on this young squire she would scarce cast an eye.
"O Sally, O Sally, O Sally," said he,
"I'm sorry that your love and mine can't agree.
I make no other doubt, love, but your ruin you will prove,
And all of your hatred will soon turn to love."