"Sally in Our Alley" is a traditional English song, originally written by Henry Carey in 1725. It became a standard of British popular music over the following century.Johnson p.369 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, in which she sang a different song named "Sally".
Lyrics The song has seven 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.
Arrangements Ludwig van Beethoven- 25 Scottish Folksongs Op 108 no 25
Frank Bridge (1916)- arrangement for string orchestra
Benjamin Britten
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