{"id":4044,"date":"2016-05-03T10:04:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T14:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=4044"},"modified":"2021-06-19T21:09:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T01:09:57","slug":"sally-brown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=4044","title":{"rendered":"Sally Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is referred to as a “windlass or capstan” chantey in the book Songs of the American Sailormen (1938 – Joanna C. Colcord) while other sources refer to it having been used at the halyards. \u00a0It’s rhythm certainly makes it versatile. \u00a0It is in regards to a Creole lady by the name of Sally Brown and most verses, while regarding Sally quite highly, nonetheless drips with the usual racist rhetoric encountered in folk song of the 19th and often early 20th centuries. \u00a0And while the myriad versions have placed her in New York City or in New Orleans and that she marries or not, has a baby or not, I felt that I have license to actually make something of a story and avoid some of the wording that would cause discomfort to the listeners. \u00a0SO… This is MY version of this song:<\/p>\n

\"Sally<\/p>\n

1. Sally Brown, she\u2019s a bright *mulatter,
\nWay, hey, a-roll and go!
\nShe drinks rum and chews **terbacker
\nSpend my money on Sally Brown!<\/p>\n

2. Oh, Sally Brown of New York City
\nThat girl is just too Goddamn pretty<\/p>\n

3. For many years I courted Sally
\nSo did every Tom and Dick and Harry<\/p>\n

4. I bought her silks, all frills and lacy
\nBut they bought her drinks, that fickle lady.<\/p>\n

5. I made a vow she\u2019d be my missus
\nBut she ***walked with them and gave them kisses<\/p>\n

6. One morning bright I took a notion
\nTo sail my ass across the ocean<\/p>\n

7. Fourteen months I hauled the ****mainsheet
\nThen I found myself back down on South Street<\/p>\n

8. I heard my name just by the *****mailer
\nShe begged, \u201cCome back, my tarry sailor.\u201d<\/p>\n

9. That Sally Brown of New York City
\nThat girl is just too Goddamn pretty<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*slang pronunciation for mulatto\/creole<\/p>\n

**Chewing tobacco
\n***or Fucked or Slept or whatever you choose.
\n**** “sheet” is NOT a sail but rather the lines to pull that affect the lower corners, or clews, of the sail to pull it taut.
\n***** a “mailer” or “mail cart” is a cart or wagon that would carry sacks of the post (or mail… and in this case from arriving ships) to the post office and there sit until picked up by the addressee or, later, delivered by a postman.<\/p>\n

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Wagon postal de la compagnie Temiscouata Railway, photographi\u00e9 \u00e0 Edmundston \u00e0 la fin des ann\u00e9es 30 ou d\u00e9but 40. \/ Temiscouata Railway mail cart, photographed in Edmundston in the late 30s or early 40s.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This is referred to as a “windlass or capstan” chantey in the book Songs of the American Sailormen (1938 – Joanna C. Colcord) while other sources refer to it having been used at the halyards. \u00a0It’s rhythm certainly makes it versatile. \u00a0It is in regards to a Creole lady by the name of Sally Brown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4044","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4044"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5619,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4044\/revisions\/5619"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}