Grace Slick

Sally Go 'Round the Roses

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Sally go round the roses
Sally go round the roses
And all the roses they can hurt you
And all the roses they can hurt you
Sally don't you go, don't you go downtown
Sally don't you go, don't you go downtown
Cause saddest thing in the whole wide world
See you baby with another girl
Sally go round the roses
Sally go round the roses
And all the roses they can hurt you
And all the roses they can hurt you
Sally don't you go, don't you go downtown
Sally don't you go, don't you go downtown
Cause saddest thing in the whole wide world
See you baby with another girl
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by Ron46

6h ago

To me this song is about a state of mind or emotion whether it can be happy or sad or confused about a relationship that is breaking down in the sense that your mind is now like a battlefield of longing and despair.

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Subjective

Sadness

Relationship

Confusion

Emotional Turmoil

Longing

Despair

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by NomadMonad

12y ago

HA ! I discovered more virgin territory here @ Song Meanings. How can the downloaded tech-addled youth of today not know about one of the greatest psychedelic albums ever:

Grace Slick and the Great Society: Conspicuous Only in its Absence

http://preview.tinyurl.com/k5llcaj

If you like Psych please listen to this. Her voice is magnificent, the hippie musicality is otherworldly.

My favorites are Grimly forming and Sally Go Round the Roses.

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