StoryTitle("caps", "Sally in Our Alley ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of all the girls that are so smart ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There's none like pretty Sally; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She is the darling of my heart, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And she lives in our alley. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There is no lady in the land ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is half so sweet as Sally; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She is the darling of my heart, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And she lives in our alley. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her father he makes cabbage-nets, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And through the streets does cry 'em;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her mother she sells laces long ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To such as please to buy 'em; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But sure such folks could ne'er beget ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So sweet a girl as Sally! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She is the darling of my heart,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And she lives in our alley. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When she is by, I leave my work, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I love her so sincerely; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My master comes like any Turk, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And bangs me most severely:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But let him bang his bellyful, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I'll bear it all for Sally; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She is the darling of my heart, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And she lives in our alley. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of all the days that's in the week", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I dearly love but one day— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And that's the day that comes betwixt ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A Saturday and Monday; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For then I'm drest all in my best ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To walk abroad with Sally;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She is the darling of my heart, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And she lives in our alley. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My master carries me to church, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And often am I blaméd ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Because I leave him in the lurch", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As soon as text is naméd; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I leave the church in sermon-time ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And slink away to Sally; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She is the darling of my heart, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And she lives in our alley.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Christmas comes about again, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O, then I shall have money; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'll hoard it up, and box it all, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I'll give it to my honey: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I would it were ten thousand pound, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I'd give it all to Sally; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She is the darling of my heart, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And she lives in our alley. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My master and the neighbors all ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Make game of me and Sally,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, but for her, I'd better be ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A slave and row a galley; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But when my seven long years are out, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O, then I'll marry Sally; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O, then we'll wed, and then we'll bed—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But not in our alley!", "") ?>
Poet("Henry Carey", "1693?–1743") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>