Green Sally Up
Green Sally Up is a traditional African American nursery rhyme . It is associated with a game of gossip .
text
Alan Lomax's music archive has two versions of the text:
- First version: Green Sally up, Green Sally down, Lift and squat, gotta tear the ground. (...)
- Second version: Green Sally up, Green Sally down, Green Sally bake her possum brown. (...)
The electronica musician Moby used for his album Play (1999) field recordings that Lomax had made in the American South, including Green Sally Up in the first version for the title Flower .
Web links
- Association for Cultural Equity: Green Sally Up (image from Como, Panola County , Mississippi, 1959)
literature
- Bessie Jones, Bess Lomax Hawes: Step it Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage . Athens, Georgia 1972. ISBN 0-8203-0960-5. Pp. 25-26.
- Temma Ehrenfeld: The History of a Little Girls' Game . In: The Hudson Review No. 40 (1988), pp. 584-602.
- David Evans: Afro-American Folk Music from Tate and Panola Counties, Mississippi . From the Archive of Folk Song, Library of Congress, Washington. ( PDF )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Green Sally Up. In: Association for Cultural Equity. Retrieved March 9, 2019 .