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A VARIATION OF THE GAME OF "HIDE AND GO SEEK" IS A GAME
CALLED "NO WITCHES ARE OUT TONIGHT." IN THIS GAME
ONLY ONE PERSON IS SENT OUT TO HIDE. AFTER A FEW
MINUTES THE REST OF THE PLAYERS HAVE TO WALK AROUND
THE PLAYING AREA SHOUTING "NO WITCHES ARE OUT
TONIGHT." THE ONE WHO HAS HIDDEN PICKS THE BEST
OPPORTUNITY TO JUMP OUT AND GRAB THIS PERSON AND AT
THIS TIME THE GRABBED PLAYER IS OUT. WHEN ALL ARE
OUT THE GAME IS ENDED AND A NEW "WITCH" IS CHOSEN.
Submitter comment:
I NEVER PLAYED THE GAME BUT I OFTEN WATCHED MY
SMALL COUSINS PLAY IT IN RECENT YEARS. IT IS THERE
THAT I LEARNED IT.
Where learned: WASHINGTON DC
Date learned: 11-24-1967
THIS PERSON CLAIMS THAT HIS MOTHER TAUGHT HIM ALWAYS
TO BELIEVE THE RHYME:
RED SKIES IN THE MORNING,
SAILORS TAKE WARNING,
RED SKIES AT NIGHT,
SAILORS DELIGHT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse BELIEF -- Weather sign or control |
Date learned: 02-25-1967
MINNIE-MINNIE HA-HA
WENT TO SEE HER PAPA.
PAPA DIED;
MINNIE-MINNIE CRIED.
MINNIE HAD A BABY,
SHE NAMED HIM TINY TIM.
SHE PUT HIM IN THE BATHTUB TO SEE IF HE COULD SWIM.
DRANK A GALLON OF WATER
AND ATE A BAR OF SOAP.
TRIED TO SWALLOW THE BATHTUB
BUT IT WOULDN'T GO DOWN HIS THROAT.
IN CAME THE DOCTOR,
IN CAME THE NURSE,
IN CAME THE LADY WITH THE ALLIGATOR PURSE.
OUT CAME THE DOCTOR,
OUT CAME THE NURSE,
OUT CAME THE LADY WITH THE ALLIGATOR PURSE.
AND THAT WAS THE END OF TINY TIM.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; PALOS PARK
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
CINDERELLA DRESS IN YELLOW
WENT DOWNTOWN TO SEE HER FELLER.
ON THE WAY HER GIRDLE BUSTED,
HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE DISGUSTED?
ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE...
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): COUNTING
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 11-10-1973
COCA COLA WENT DOWNTOWN
PEPSI COLA KNOCKED HIM DOWN.
DR. PEPPER FIXED HIM UP
AND NOW HE'S DRINKING SEVEN UP.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): SODA POP ; SOFT DRINKS
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 11-10-1973
LULA HAD A STEAMBOAT,
STEAMBOAT HAD A BELL.
LULA WENT TO HEAVEN
AND THE STEAMBOAT WENT TO HELL-O.
OPERATOR GIVE ME NUMBER NINE;
IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ME, I'LL KICK YOU
IN THE--BEHIND THE REFRIGERATOR
THERE LAID SOME BROKEN GLASS,
LULA SLIPPED BEHIND IT AND CUT
HER BIG, FAT ---
ASK ME NO MORE QUESTIONS
I'LL TELL YOU NO MORE LIES.
LULA WENT TO HEAVEN
AND A STEAMBOAT NEVER DIES.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): EUPHEMISM ; HUMOR
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 12-05-1973
THREE, SIX, NINE THE GOOSE DRANK WINE,
THE MONKEY CHEWED TOBACCO
ON THE STREETCAR LINE.
THE LINE BROKE,
THE MONKEY GOT CHOKE(ED)
AND THEY ALL WENT TO HEAVEN
IN A LITTLE ROWBOAT (CLAP, CLAP).
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): ANIMALS ; HUMOR COUNTING BY THREES
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 12-05-1973
PETE AND REPEAT SITTING ON A FENCE,
PETE JUMPED OFF, WHO WAS LEFT?
REPEAT (THEN REPEAT THE VERSE).
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): CATCH ; VERSE ROUND
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Prose Narrative Prose Narrative |
School Cheer
We don't drink,
We don't cuss,
Norfolk, Norfolk.
I am told that this is the most often repeated cheer for the biggest high school in Norfolk, Virginia.
Submitter comment:
Informant says that he heard this from a class mate of his in Washington, DC in the fall of 1967.
Where learned: Washington, DC
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
'Twas a Day in Mid-September
'Twas a day in mid-September
As well as I remember
I was walking down the street with manly pride
When my feet began to flutter
And I slipped into the gutter
And a pig walked up and lay down by my side.
As I lay there in the gutter
My heart began to flutter
As a lady passing by was heard to say,
"You can tell a man who boozes
By the company he chooses."
And the pig got up and slowly walked away.
Submitter comment:
Informant learned it for Fall rush season, 1967.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Smile
Someone gave me a smile today,
I tried my best to give it away
To everyone I chanced to meet
As I walked down the street.
But everyone that I could see
Gave my smile right back to me;
When I got home, besides my smile,
I had enough to reach a mile!
Submitter comment:
Informant says she has known it for a long time but has no record of source.
Where learned: Washington, DC
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Limerick
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned
So what could they do?
Said the flea, "Let us fly!"
Said the fly, "Let us flea!"
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
Submitter comment:
When I asked for limericks this is what she wrote.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Limerick
Ching ching Chinaman
Sittin on a fence
Tryin' to make a dollar
Out of fifteen cents.
Submitter comment:
When I asked for limericks this is what she wrote.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Limerick
Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear
Fuzzy wuzzy had no hair
So Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Nursery Rhyme
Old Mother Hubbard,
Went to the cupboard,
To fetch her pet cobra a toad,
When she got there,
The cupboard was bare,
The old bat shoulda knowed.
Submitter comment:
Heard on radio WJW, Cleveland, Ohio, by the informant. It is reputedly an original by a disk jockey, Mad-Daddy (Alan Freed) and was well known by Cleveland teenagers in 1957.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; RENO HALL ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Modification of Historical Poem
Listen my children and you shall hear,
The midnight ride of the can of beer.
Down the alley and over the fence,
I've got the beer,
Who's got the ten cents?
Submitter comment:
Taught by Sister M. Eulalia in grade five. She learned this when she was a child which is easily seen by the price of the beer.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; PEORIA ; 5th grade teacher
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Little Miss Bright
There was a young girl named Miss Bright,
Who could travel much faster than light.
She departed one day,
In an Einsteinian way,
And came back on the previous night.
Submitter comment:
This verse is one remembered from high school days (1968) in a physics class. Its meaning lies in Einstein's theory of relativity and the fact that if one goes faster than velocity of light, one will go back in time.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HIGH SCHOOL ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |