Ranky Tanky (Music Ensemble) - "Green Sally" (2017 performance)

Ranky Tanky, May 30, 2018 **** Edited by Azizi Powell This pancocojams post showcases a 2018 YouTube video of Ranky Tanky music ensemble's performance of the African American Gullah culture's children's song "Green Sally". This song is also called "Green Sally Up". This post also includes information about Ranky Tanky (music ensemble) and the lyrics for that group's version of "Green Sally". The content of this post is presented for folkloric, entertainment, recreational, and aesthetic purposes. All copyrights remain with their owners. Thanks to Ranky Tanky music ensemble and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. **** INFORMATION ABOUT THE "RANKY TANKY" MUSIC ENSEMBLE From this video's summary statement: "From the South Carolina low-country, where life is laced with African ways, comes Ranky Tanky, a quintet with music rooted in Gullah culture. Descendants of enslaved Africans isolated on the southeastern Sea Islands, Gullah is a unique mix of African and English that has shaped American art, food, language, and attitude. Translated loosely as "Get Funky!" Ranky Tanky updates traditional Gullah game songs, spirituals, and shouts with gospel vocals, jazz trumpet, and an R&B rhythm section.

"Ranky Tanky, from Charleston, S.C., sings old Gullah songs — some of them sly moral lessons — in arrangements that connect their beat to a New Orleans lilt." - NEW YORK TIMES"... **** from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranky_Tanky "Ranky Tanky

Origin  Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.

Genres Gullah, jazz, world music

Years active     2016–present

Labels  Resilience Music Alliance

Website:  www.rankytanky.com

Ranky Tanky is an American musical ensemble based in Charleston, South Carolina. It specializes in jazz-influenced arrangements of traditional Gullah music, a culture that originated among descendants of enslaved Africans in the Lowcountry region of the US Southeast. Apart from lead vocalist Quiana Parler, four of the group's members, Quentin Baxter, Kevin Hamilton, Clay Ross, and Charlton Singleton, previously played together in the Charleston jazz quartet The Gradual Lean in the late 1990s.[1]

Their debut album, Ranky Tanky, was released in October 2017. By the week of February 10, 2018, it was listed number one in the Billboard jazz charts, a position it held for two weeks.[2]

For their album Good Time, the band won the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album.[3] In 2023, they won a second Grammy in the Best Regional Roots Music Album category, for Live at the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.[4][5]"...
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LYRICS- "GREEN SALLY"
(African American traditional song; version by Ranky Tanky music ensemble)

Green Sally up, Green Sally down
Green Sally bake her possum brown (repeat 4x)

Asked my mama for 40 cents
Watch that elephant jump the fence
Jumped so high, he touched the sky
Didn't come back 'til the 4th of July

Green Sally up, Green Sally down
Green Sally bake her possum brown (repeat 2x)

See that house on the hill
That's where me & my baby live
Nailed that possum to a tree
Keep me buzzing like a bumble bee...

1 re, 2 re, dickery 7
Haliboo, crackiboo, 10, 11
People must be done
Twinkle, twinke, 21

1 sall, 2 sall, sickasall zoh
Dog tail, dominickle
Deedle doll, doh
Hail 'em scale 'em Virgin Mary
Iketail a-link Tom
Ball - come on!"

online source: https://www.riseupsinging.org/songs/green-sally

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