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Sally Morlands sells fish

Sally Morlands sells fish
2 and 8 pence a dish.
Don't buy it, don't buy it
It stinks when you fry it"

Note: Apparantly, "Sally Morland's" was a supermarket in Northwood Middlesex, UK in the early 1970's

(ed: and yet "Michael from England" writes...)

My late Dad used to sing another, far earlier version of this song. I think it was a Victorian music hall number. A saintly man, he probably didn't detect a whiff of double-entendre in its last line ...

Sally Walker sells fish
Three half-pence a dish
Don't buy it, don't buy it
It stinks when you fry it
And if you want any more
Go to Sally's back door !

Source: circa Victorian? - 1970's, UK (S)