Fair Sally loved a bonny seaman (Maurice Greene)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-04-02). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 89 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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Title: Fair Sally loved a bonny seaman
Composer: Maurice Greene
Lyricist: John Hoadlycreate page
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo
First published: c.1755
Description: From "Amaryllis", "a collection of "such songs as are most esteemed for composition and delicacy and sung at the Publick Theatres or Gardens". A song first appearing in Greene's collection, "The Chaplet", 1738.