OLD DORSET SONGS. 3 J 



SALLY IS THE GIRL FOR ME. 



Last week I was twenty-one ; 



My master set me free, 

 And now I've money plenty, 



I'm just going to have a spree. 



Chorus. 

 For she has got such winning ways 



To spend her money free, 

 And here's good liquor, come and drink. 



Oh, Sally is the girl for me. 



Her waist, that was so slender, 



Her ankle was so small ; 

 If 'twasn't for her heel 



She'd have no foot at all. 

 Chorus. 



If all the girls in our town 



Was melted into one, 

 I'd marry them all if I'd think fit, 



Or else I'd let them run. 

 Chorus. 



To see her on a Sunday 



As through the streets she'd walk 



You'd think it was Victoria 

 Just landed in New York. 

 Chorus. 



For this song and "The Punch-Bowl" I am indebted to the 

 Rev. E. Capel-Cure, Rector of Stour Provost, who obtained 

 them from an aged parishioner. Versions of " The Punch- 

 Bowl " exist in other parts of England. " Sally is the Girl for 

 me " is evidently a more modern song, although the allusion to 

 "Victoria" need not necessarily determine its date. That may 

 be a name substituted to bring the song " up-to-date." 



