Little Sally Waters
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Little Sally Waters", also known as "Babies on Our Block", "Sally Walker",<br> "Sallie Waters" or "Sally Waters" is an American reel in D Major (Bayard-Bryner) or<br> G Major (Bayard-Miller/Gelnette). The parts are played AA'BA or ABBA.<br> Bayard (1981) believed this dance tune to be based on a song tune.<br> A song called "The Babies on Our Block" by the songwriting team of Edward<br> Harrigan (lyric) and London-born Dave Braham (music), from the Broadway hit show<br> The Mulligan Guard Ball (1879) provides the melody (and the name) for "Little Sally<br> Waters". The chorus includes the words to the old play party “Little Sally Waters”.<br> Under the title “Little Sally Waters” it is figure 5 of the “Mulligan Guard Ball<br> Quadrille”, published in New York by D. Muller in 1879.<br> There is a children's play-party song and game called "Little Sally Waters/Walker",<br> but the words are sung to a different tune.<br> It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981).<br>
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