The shocking song, then, may really have been a way of honoring the powers of women, of dealing with the fears they inspired. It might properly be compared with a song making fun of lions, sung by lion hunters on a night before a hunt. The words were these: Sally in the garden, Sifting cinders, Lifted up her leg And farted like a man. The bursting of her bloomers Broke sixteen winders. The cheeks of her ass went— Here the singers, in order to complete the stanza, were required to clap three times.
