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SPIRITUAL
I'M GONNA TELL GOD ALL MY TROUBLES
WHEN I GET HOME...
I'M GONNA TELL HIM THE ROAD WAS ROCKY
WHEN I GET HOME...
I'M GONNA TELL HIM I HAD HARD TRAILS
WHEN I GET HOME...
I'M GONNA TELL GOD HOW YOU'RE DOING
WHEN I GET HOME...
Where learned: DETROIT, ASSUMED ; Grandmother ; TOLD BY
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Death Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Religious |
"I FEEL GOOD"
I FEEL GOOD, GOOD, GOOD
I FEEL GOOD DOWN IN MY SOUL.
EVERYTIME I THINK ABOUT JESUS
I FEEL GOOD.
DON'T YOU FEEL GOOD, GOOD, GOOD.
DON'T YOU FEEL GOOD DOWN IN YOUR
SOUL.
EVERYTIME YOU THINK ABOUT JESUS
DON'T YOU FEEL GOOD.
Submitter comment:
THIS SONG IS SUNG OVER AND OVER AT A
BOUNCY BEAT. IT'S SUNG WITH QUICK
CLAPPING HANDS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 5235 25TH AVE
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Joy Happiness Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Religious |
Date learned: 02-15-1971
"DO LORD"
DO LORD OH DO LORD
DO REMEMBER ME
DO LORD OH DO LORD
DO REMEMBER ME
DO LORD OH DO LORD
DO REMEMBER ME
I'M YOUR SERVANT OH LORD
Submitter comment:
THIS IS SUNG OVER AND OVER WHILE
EVERYONE CLAPS THEIR HANDS AND SINGS
LOUD AND HAPPY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 5235 25TH AVE
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Religious |
Date learned: 01-23-1971
CRIES OF STREET VENDORS
ITALIAN STREET VENDORS USED TO GO BY
SHOUTING FROM THEIR TRUCKS: "STROM-
BERRY, STROMBERRY, TWO QUARTS FOR
QUARTER. YELLOWBAMA SWEET CORN."
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT USED TO HEAR THIS CRY WHEN
SHE WAS A CHILD IN DETROIT IN THE 30'S.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Cries of street vendor |
Date learned: 00001930S
SONG
INKY PINKY MY GOOD HEN,
LAY SOME EGGS FOR A GENTLEMAN.
SOMETIMES NINE, SOMETIMES TEN,
INKY PINKY MY GOOD HEN.
Submitter comment: LEARNED IN CANADA ON FARM.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Work Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR.
HUSH LITTLE BABY DON'T SAY A WORD
PAPPA'S GONNA BUY YOU A MOCKING-BIRD
AND IF THAT MOCKING-BIRD DON'T SING
PAPPA'S GONNA BUY YOU A DIAMOND RING
AND IF THAT DIAMOND RING TURNS BRASS
PAPPA'S GONNA BUY YOU A LOOKING GLASS
AND IF THAT LOOKING GLASS GETS BROKE
PAPPA'S GONNA TO BUY YOU A BILLYGOAT
AND IF THAT BILLYGOAT GETS BONY
PAPPA'S GONNA TO BUY A CART AND PONY
AND IF THAT CART AND PONY TIP OVER
PAPPA'S GONNA BUY YOU A DOG NAMED ROVER
AND IF THAT DOG SHOULD RUN AWAY
PAPPA'LL BUY YOU ANOTHER ONE SOME FINE DAY.
Data entry tech comment:
WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, I WOULD DO THE HAMBONE AND SING THIS SONG.
THIS WAS IN NEW YORK CITY.
THE HAMBONE IS A SORT OF DRUMMING ON YOUR THIGHS
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Cradle song Lullaby |
Date learned: 00-00-1971
SONG
SUNSHINE MAN, SUNSHINE MAN}
PLEASE MAKE IT A FINE DAY TOMORROW.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT LEARNED THIS CHILDREN'S SONG
WHILE GROWING UP IN JAPAN,
AND TODAY, IN AMERICA, SINGS IT TO HIS
SMALL AMERICAN-BORN GRANDCHILDREN.
WHENEVER CHILDREN ARE GOING ON EXCURSIONS, ETC.
IN JAPAN, THEY MAKE A PAPER DOLL OF "TERUTERU BOZU" (SUNSHINE MAN),
HANG IT ON THE BRANCHES OF ANY TREE,
AND CHANT THE ABOVE SONG.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ANN ARBOR
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Cradle song Lullaby |
Date learned: 07-05-1964
SONG
SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP.
WHERE HAS YOUR NURSE GONE?
OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS
TO YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S HOME.
SOON SHE WILL BRING YOU
FISH AND RED RICE.
SLEEP, BABY SLEEP
SLEEP, BABY SLEEP.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT'S MOTHER SANG THIS JAPANESE LULLABY
TO HER CHILDREN IN JAPAN,
AND INFORMANT, LIKEWISE, SINGS THE SAME TO HIS
AMERICAN-BORN GRANDCHILDREN IN AMERICA.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ANN ARBOR
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Cradle song Lullaby |
Date learned: 07-05-1964
SOMETIMES I THINK MY WOMAN,
SHE TOO SWEET TO DIE;
DEN SOMETIMES I THINK SHE
OUGHT TO BE BURIED ALIVE.
Submitter comment:
SHE USED TO HEAR HER HUSBAND SING THIS
WHEN HE SEEMED TO BE UPSET.
GOTTEN FROM MY GRANDMOTHER WHILE
SHE VISTED
Data entry tech comment:
( COLLECTOR THINKS THIS
DEFINITELY HAS RELIGIOUS
OVERTONES)
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Religious |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
SONG
GRANDMOTHER IS SITTING CLOSE BY THE FIREPLACE,
WITH SNOW IN HER HAIR AND A SMILE ON HER FACE.
I BET SHE IS THINKING IT HASN'T BEEN LONG,
SINCE SHE ROCKED BABY'S MOTHER ASLEEP WITH THIS SONG.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT REMEMBERS THIS SONG AS A CHILD(1930'S).
THE INFORMANT DOES NOT
REMEMBER THE TUNE TO WHICH
THIS SONG WAS SUNG.
Where learned: HOME ; PITTSBURGH ; TOLD AT ; 1587 ANDERSON RD
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Cradle song Lullaby |
Date learned: 10-02-1971
"CERTAINLY LORD"
HAVE YOU GOT GOOD RELIGION ?
CERTAINLY LORD
HAVE YOU GOT GOOD RELIGION ?
CERTAINLY LORD
HAVE YOU GOT GOOD RELIGION ?
CERTAINLY LORD, CERTAINLY LORD
CERTAINLY, CERTAINLY, LORD
Submitter comment:
THIS IS SUNG IN INSPIRATION BACK AND FORTH
FROM ONE MEMBER TO THE OTHER. USUALLY
ONE PERSON STARTS OFF ASKING THE QUESTION
PART OF THE SONG AND CAN ASK ANY
OTHER QUESTION IN SONG AND THE
MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH RESPOND WITH
"CERTAINLY LORD". IT CAN BE SUNG FAST OR
SLOW, WITH OUT MUSIC OR WITH IT.
HOWEVER, HAND CLAPPING AND FOOT
TAPPING IS ALWAYS ACCEPTED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 5235 25TH AVE
Keyword(s): QUESTION AND ANSWER STRUCTURE
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Religious CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church |
Date learned: 02-13-1971
JESUS MET THE WOMAN
JESUS MET THE WOMAN AT THE WELL (3 TIMES)
AND HE TOLD HER EVERYTHING SHE'D EVER DONE.
HE SAID, "WOMAN, WOMAN, WHERE IS YOUR HUSBAND? (3 TIMES)
I KNOW EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER DONE."
AND SHE SAID, "JESUS, JESUS, I AIN'T GOT NO HUSBAND. (3 TIMES)
AND YOU DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING I'VE EVER DONE."
HE SAID, "WOMAN, WOMAN, YOU'VE GOT FIVE HUSBANDS. (3 TIMES)
AND THE ONE YOU'VE GOT NOW HE AIN'T YOUR OWN."
SHE SAID, "THIS MAN, THIS MAN, MUST BE A PROPHET. (3 TIMES)
HE DONE TOLD ME EVERYTHING I'VE EVER DONE."
JESUS MET THE WOMAN AT THE WELL (3 TIMES)
AND HE TOLD HER EVERYTHING SHE'D EVER DONE.
Data entry tech comment:
(LIKE THE MAID + THE PALMER" -
CHILD 21)
CHILD BALLAD 21)
Where learned: BIRMINGHAM ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ballad Epic Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Religious |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
NO CAN DO} VOODOO
A FRIEND OF MY FAMILY (NAME WITHHELD ON REQUEST)
IS A HOMICIDE DETECTIVE FOR THE CITY OF DETROIT.
FOR ONE OF HIS ARRESTS HE HAD TO TRAVEL TO A
PREDOMINANTLY NEGRO SECTION OF THE CITY.
WHEN HE GOT TO THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE IN QUESTION
THE MAN TO BE ARRESTED ANSWERED. AFTER LEARNING
HE WAS TO BE ARRESTED THE MAN AGREED TO GO,
BUT EXPLAINED THAT HE COULD NOT WALK PAST THE DOOR
NOW BECAUSE SOMEONE HAD PUT A CURSE ON HIM AND HE
COULD NOT COME OUT BECAUSE VOODOO DUST WAS SPRINKLED THERE.
OUR FRIEND LOOKED DOWN AND SAW THAT THERE CERTAINLY
WAS SOME DUST LIKE MATERIAL SPRINKLED IN FRONT OF THE DOOR.
HE BENT DOWN AND BRUSHED THE DUST AWAY AND SAID TO THE
WAITING MAN, "OKAY, YOU CAN COME OUT NOW, THE CURSE IS BROKEN".
AT THAT THE MAN AGREED AND WALKED OUT ON THE PORCH
TO BE ARRESTED. BUT HE WOULD NOT CROSS THE LINE OF DUST
BEFORE THIS, EVEN TO BE ARRESTED.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Charm / Enchantment / Conjuration Favorites |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
CARRYING SALT
CARRY SALT WITH A NEW BABY TO WARD OFF
EVIL SPIRITS WHICH MIGHT HARM HIM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 7792 DAYTON
Keyword(s): EVIL EYE
| Subject headings: | Charm / Enchantment / Conjuration Favorites BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 02-07-1970
MAGIC
IN ITALY IT MEANS YOU LACK SOMETHING UPSTAIRS
IF YOU ARE NOT BORN ON FRIDAY.
Submitter comment: GRANDMOTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Physically handicapped Deformed BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
Date learned: 11-06-1967
SUPERSTITION
IF A PERSON IS DEADLY SICK ONE SHOULD GO TO THE RABBI
AND HAVE HIM GIVE A NEW NAME TO THE ILL PERSON.
THE NEW NAME WILL EXTEND HER LIFE.
Submitter comment:
HER MOTHER TAUGHT HER THIS BUT SHE DOES NOT BELIEVE IT.
WHEN HER FATHER WAS DYING HER SISTER SENT A TELEGRAM
TO THEIR OLD RABBI ASKING FOR A NEW NAME. HE GAVE
HER ONE BUT THE FATHER STILL DIED.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Person / Nickname Favorites BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 04-00-1965
HOLY WATER FONT
FOR THE TWENTY YEARS THAT I RESIDED AT MY PARENT'S HOME
I CAN NOT REMEMBER EITHER MY BROTHERS OR MYSELF LEAVING
THE HOUSE BY THE FRONT DOOR WITHOUT DIPPING OUR
FINGERS INTO THE HOLY WATER FONT AND MAKING THE SIGN
OF THE CROSS. DESPITE THE FACT THAT IT WAS A HABIT,
MY MOTHER (POLISH) WOULD ALWAYS REMIND US.
AS WE OPENED THE FRONT DOOR SHE WOULD CALL, "DON'T FORGET TO
BLESS YOURSELF". THIS BECAME QUITE EMBARRASSING
AS WE BECAME YOUNG MEN AND WOULD BE LEAVING THE HOUSE WITH
FRIENDS BOTH MALE AND FEMALE. IN HER OWN HOME, WHEN MY
MOTHER WAS A YOUNG GIRL, HER MOTHER WOULD CHASE HER
BROTHERS DOWN THE STREET AND MAKE THEM RETURN TO THE HOUSE
IF SHE SAW THEM GO OUT WITHOUT BLESSING THEMSELVES.
THIS WAS NEVER MENTIONED IF WE WENT OUT THROUGH THE BACK DOOR.
AS I WRITE THIS IT SUDDENLY OCCURS TO ME THAT MY MOTHER ENCOURAGED
US TO USE THE BACK DOOR BY IMPOSING THIS FRONT DOOR
RITUAL UPON US.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
A DANCE OF DEATH
A GIRL DANCED A DANCE OF DEATH WITH THE DEVIL.
HER PARENTS FORBID HER TO DANCE BUT SHE USED TO
SLIP OUT AND GO TO THE DANCES ANYWAY. ONE NIGHT
SHE PUT ON RED SHOES AND WENT TO THE DANCE.
THERE SHE MET THIS STRANGER WHO WAS DRESSED DIFFERENTLY
FROM ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE AT THE DANCE. HE WAS VERY
SHARP. HE ASKED HER TO DANCE AND SHE SAID YES. THEY
DANCED AND DANCED AND DANCED. FINALLY SHE ASKED
DANCE SAID THAT IF SHE TOOK OFF HER RED SHOES
TO STOP AND HE SAID NO. THE REST OF THE PEOPLE AT THE
THAT THIS WOULD MAKE HIM
STOP BUT SHE COULDN'T. FINALLY SHE DROPPED DEAD FROM
EXHAUSTION AND WHILE THE REST OF THE PEOPLE CAME TO SEE
WHAT HAPPENED THE STRANGE MAN HAD DISAPPEARED. THE STRANGER
WAS THE DEVIL FOLKS SAID AND HE TOOK HER WITH HIM BACK
TO HELL. ON THE DEATH OF THIS GIRL A FEW OF THE
PEOPLE SAID THEY SAW THE MAN'S HORNS
AS HE RAN OUT.
Submitter comment:
MRS. LEWIS SAID THAT THIS STORY WAS TOLD TO HER BY HER
GRANDMOTHER WHEN SHE WAS A LITTLE GIRL. HER GRANDMOTHER
SAID THAT THIS WAS A TRUE STORY.
Where learned: FREE PRESS SERVICE DESK
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Devil Demon BELIEF -- Color |
LUCK OF SHIPS
THERE IS A STORY OF AN UNNAMED GRAIN SHIP,
A GREAT LAKES THREE-MASTER, THAT LOST HER
LUCK ON A RUN TO BUFFALO. A MAN, NAMED BILL, HAD
FALLEN TO HIS DEATH FROM THE MASTHEAD, AND ON THE FOLLOWING
DAY ANOTHER HAD LOST HIS LIFE. ON ARRIVING AT BUFFALO
THE MEN WENT ASHORE AS SOON AS THEY WERE PAID OFF. THEY WERE
NOT RETURNING BECAUSE, THEY SAID, THE SHIP HAD LOST HER
LUCK. WHILE THE VESSEL WAS DISCHARGING HER
CARGO AT AN ELEVATOR THE STORY GOT AROUND AND THE GRAIN-TRIMMERS
REFUSED TO WORK HER. WHEN THE SHIP WAS UNLOADED SHE WAS
ORDERED TO CLEVELAND TO TAKE ON COAL BUT COULD NOT SIGN A CREW.
THEY MANAGED TO GET A NEW CREW BY GOING TO A CRIMP, WHO RAN
THEM IN FROM SALT WATER. THEY CAME ABOARD TWO-THIRDS DRUNK AND
THE MATE WAS STEERING THEM TO THE FORECASTLE, WHEN ONE
OF THEM STOPPED AND POINTED ALOFT, SAID: "WHAT HAVE YOU
GOT A FIGUREHEAD ON THE MASTHEAD FOR?" THE MATE LOOKED ALOFT
AND THEN TURNED WHITE. "IT'S BILL," HE CRIED, AND WITH THAT
THE WHOLE LOT DID A PIERHEAD JUMP, EVEN THE MATE.
THE CAPTAIN MANAGED TO SIGN ON ANOTHER CREW AND SAILED
FOR CLEVELAND, BUT HE NEVER GOT THERE; HIS VESSEL WAS SUNK
BY A STEAMER OFF DUNKIRK.
Submitter comment:
CAPTAIN LUMAS SAYS THAT HE HEARD THIS STORY FROM
HIS FATHER WHO CLAIMED THAT HIS BEST FRIEND WAS
LOST ON THIS ILL-FATED SHIP.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; MACKINAC ISLAND
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Curse BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 09-00-1963
IT'S A GOOD CANDLE THAT SMOKES STRAIGHT UP.
WHENEVER WE HAD CANDLES ON THE TABLE, FOR CHRISTMAS EVE
DINNER, FOR A BIRTHDAY PARTY, OR WHENEVER, MY GRANDFATHER
USED TO LOOK VERY INTENTLY AT THE DIRECTION IN WHICH
THE SMOKE OF THE CANDLE WAS GOING
THE DIRECTION DETERMINED WHETHER GOOD OR BAD LUCK WOULD COME
TO THOSE AT THE TABLE.
Submitter comment:
IN MY CASE (AFTER A BIRTHDAY PARTY), THE SMOKE WENT
TOWARD THE NORTH-EAST. "AHA," HE SAID,
"PRYJDZIE KAWALER Z TAMTYCH STRON}" AND HE WAS RIGHT.
MY FUTURE HUSBAND DID COME FROM THAT DIRECTION. I'M SURE GLAD
GRANDPA NOTICED THAT. PERHAPS I'M BEING A BIT FACETIOUS,
BUT GRANDPA REALLY DID BELIEVE IN THIS OMEN OR SIGN.
*AFTER IT WAS BLOWN OUT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |