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'''FAIR SALLY LOV'D A BONNY SEAMAN.''' English, Air (3/4 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Fair Sally lov'd a boony seaman" is a mid-18th century song, printed in John Simpson's '''Calliope, or English Harmony, vol. 1''' (1746), John Sadler's '''The Muses Delight''' (1754), and other period songsters and on song-sheets. The words were the product of poet John Hoadly (1711-1776), a bishop's son who also became a clergyman. He also wrote songs, sometimes in partnership with his friend Maurice Green, who supplied the music (as he did for "Fair Sally...". | '''FAIR SALLY LOV'D A BONNY SEAMAN.''' English, Air (3/4 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Fair Sally lov'd a boony seaman" is a mid-18th century song, printed in John Simpson's '''Calliope, or English Harmony, vol. 1''' (1746), John Sadler's '''The Muses Delight''' (1754), and other period songsters and on song-sheets. The words were the product of poet John Hoadly (1711-1776), a bishop's son who also became a clergyman. He also wrote songs, sometimes in partnership with his friend Maurice Green, who supplied the music (as he did for "Fair Sally..."). Hoadly's first stanza goes: | ||
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''Fair Sally lov'd a bonny Seaman;''<br> | ''Fair Sally lov'd a bonny Seaman;''<br> | ||