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CRACK THE WHIP
THIS IS A GAME PLAYED BY SEVERAL CHILDREN. THEY ALL
JOIN HANDS AND THE LEADER RUNS AROUND IN A SERIES
OF CIRCLES AND CURVES. THE PLAYERS ON THE END ARE
FLUNG THUS BEING THE "CRACK" AND THE LINE OF CHILDREN
THE "WHIP."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WESTLAND
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Date learned: 09-15-1969
RED-LIGHT GAME
THIS IS A GAME PLAYED OFTEN BY SCHOOLCHILDREN IN THE 1920S
AND UP THROUGH TODAY. ONE CHILD IS CHOSEN TO BE 'IT,'
THE OTHERS BEING FREE. THE CHILD THAT IS 'IT' COVERS HIS
EYES, COUNTS TO TEN IN ANY SPEED HE WISHES, SHOUTS
'REDLIGHT' TO THE OTHERS THAT HAVE BEEN WALKING AROUND,
AND ANY CHILD HE CATCHES IN MOTION IS THE NEW 'IT.'
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Date learned: 00001920S ; 09-10-1969
WITCH
WITCH SHOULD BE PLAYED AT NIGHT WITH AT LEAST THREE OR
MORE CHILDREN. ONE CHILD IS CHOSEN AS THE WITCH, WHILE
THE OTHERS RUN AND HIDE SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE. AS THE WITCH
WAITS FOR THE CHLDREN TO HIDE, HE CHANTS:
ONE O'CLOCK, TWO O'CLOCK, THREE O'CLOCK ROCK
FOUR O'CLOCK, FIVE O'CLOCK, SIX O'CLOCK ROCK
SEVEN O'CLOCK, EIGHT O'CLOCK, NINE O'CLOCK ROCK
TEN O'CLOCK, ELEVEN O'CLOCK, TWELVE O'CLOCK ROCK.
MOONLIGHT, STARBRIGHT, I HOPE TO SEE THE WITCH TONIGHT.
AFTER THE SONG, THE WITCH GOES OUT LOOKING FOR THE
CHILDREN. IF HE FINDS SOMEONE, THEN THAT PERSON BECOMES
A WITCH ALSO. THUS, THE GAME CONTINUES UNTIL ALL THE
CHILDREN ARE CAUGHT. WHEN THE LAST PERSON IS CAUGHT,
HOWEVER, HE AUTOMATICALLY BECOMES THE WITCH. ONE AGAIN
THE GAME IS PLAYED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Date learned: 09-15-1969
DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE
CHILDREN SIT ON THE GROUND IN A CIRCLE. "IT" WALKS AROUND
THE OUTSIDE OF THE CIRCLE TAPPING EACH CHILD ON THE HEAD,
SAYING EITHER "DUCK" OR "GOOSE." THE CHILD WHO IS
A GOOSE MUST GET UP AND RACE AROUND THE CIRCLE IN THE
OPPOSITE DIRECTION FROM "IT." THE LAST ONE BACK TO THE
VACANT SPIT IS "IT."
Submitter comment: GAME LEARNED IN CHILDHOOD BY THE INFORMANT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Date learned: 08-10-1964
CHUGGING CONTESTS
A FAVORITE PASTIME AT PARTIES IS FOR EVERYONE TO GET
A MUG FULL OF BEER AND SEE WHO CAN CHUG IT DOWN THE
FASTEST.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHUG=SWALLOW, WITHOUT STOPPING.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Date learned: 03-29-1968
RED ROVER
USUALLY PLAYED WITH AT LEAST SIX PLAYERS OR MORE ON EACH
TEAM. THESE TWO TEAMS BOTH STAND IN A STRAIGHT LINE AND
HOLD HANDS. ONE TEAM CALLS A PERSON FROM THE OPPOSITE
TEAM, AND THAT PERSON TRIES TO BREAK THROUGH THE
CLASPED HANDS; IF HE DOES, HE STAYS ON THAT TEAM HE
CAME FROM--BUT IF HE CANNOT BREAK THROUGH, HE MUST STAY
ON THAT TEAM. WHERE THERE IS ONE PERSON LEFT ON THE
OTHER TEAM, THE TEAM WITH THE MOST PLAYERS WINS.
PLAYERS SAY: RED ROVER, RED ROVER, SEND (NAME A PLAYER)
RIGHT OVER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
WALKING GAME
PLAYERS ARE SUPPOSED TO WALK ALONG THE SIDEWALK BUT NOT
TO STEP IN ANY SQUARES THAT HAVE NUMBERS OR LETTERS
IMPRINTED IN THEM. FOR EACH SQUARE YOU WALK IN THAT
HAS A LETTER OR NUMBER, YOU GET A LETTER (D-O-N-K-E-Y).
THE LOSER IS THE ONE THAT SPELLS IT COMPLETELY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Date learned: 00001950S LATE
DUCKY, DUCKY
AN "IT" IS CHOSEN. HE STANDS IN THE MIDDLE FACING AWAY
FROM THE OTHER PLAYERS, AND SAYS, "DUCKY, DUCKY, CROSS
MY POND, IF YOU HAVE THIS COLOR ON.)----(RED FOR EXAMPLE.
THE PLAYERS WITH THAT COLOR ON MAY WALK FROM ONE LINE
TO THE OTHER WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT. THE OTHERS,
WITHOUT THE COLOR, MUST RUN AND MAY GET TAGGED. IF
TAGGED, THAT PERSON BECOMES "IT."
Submitter comment: WE ALWAYS USED TO PLAY THIS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PASTIME
YOU NEED 7 PEOPLE. ONE LIES DOWN. TWO ARE ON EACH SIDE
OF THE PERSON LYING DOWN, ONE AT THE HEAD AND ONE AT
THE FEET. YOU USE TWO FINGERS ON EACH HAND AND PUT THEM
UNDER THE BODY OF THE PERSON LYING DOWN. THE PERSON AT
THE HEAD SAYS THERE HAS BEEN AN ACCIDENT. EVERYONE
REPEATS (EXCEPT PERSON LYING DOWN). THEN THEY SAY
SIMULTANEOUSLY, "SHE IS ILL, CALL A DOCTOR, SHE IS
DYING, SHE IS DEAD. SHE'S AS LIGHT AS A FEATHER, STIFF
AS A BOARD." AFTER THIS IS DONE, THE HEAD PERSON SAYS,
"AT THE COUNT OF THREE WE WILL RAISE HER." EVERYONE MUST
CONCENTRATE, THERE MUST BE NO LAUGHING OR ELSE YOU
WON'T BE ABLE TO LIFT THE OTHER PERSON.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Date learned: 10-00-1971
PUMP, PUMP, POLE-AWAY
ONE PERSON BENDS OVER AND WRAPS HIS ARMS AROUND A
TELEPHONE POLE. ANOTHER PERSON BENDS OVER AND
WRAPS HIS ARMS AROUND HIS WAIST. THIS CONTINUES UNTIL
A CHAIN OF ABOUT 10 TO 12 PEOPLE IS FORMED. THEN
SOMEONE GETS A RUNNING START AND LEAPS OVER THE PEOPLE.
THE WINNER IS THE ONE WHO LEAPS THE FARTHEST.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT HAS PLAYED THE GAME IN ESCANABA, MICHIGAN
ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO. HE ADMITS IT TO BE QUITE
UNCOMFORTABLE AT TIMES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; ESCANABA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Date learned: 03-26-1972
IF YOU STEP ON A CRACK YOU'LL BREAK YOUR MOTHER'S BACK.
A GAME I PLAYED WHEN I WAS YOUNG, YOU WEREN'T ALLOWED
TO STEP ON A LINE ON THE SIDEWALK. WE USUALLY PLAYED
WHILE WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL, IT MADE THE WALK SEEM
SHORTER.
Where learned: HARPER WOODS ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
SOME GRADE SCHOOL CHILDREN DO WALKING GAMES TO AND FROM
SCHOOL. THIS WALKING GAME IS ONE THAT YOU ARE NOT
SUPPOSE(D) TO STEP ON THE CRACKS (LINES) SEPARATING
CEMENT BLOCKS. DURING THE WALK TO AND FROM SCHOOL THE
CHILDREN ARE CONSTANTLY SAYING, "STEP ON A CRACK,
BREAK YOUR MOTHER'S BACK."
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT WAS INVOLVED IN THIS GAME DURING HER GRADE
SCHOOL YEARS AT BEARD SCHOOL IN DETROIT (1961-63).
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Date learned: 11-01-1971
COPS AND ROBBERS
SHE KNEW COPS AND ROBBERS IN THESE VERSIONS:
NAZIES VS. AMERICANS ON THE PRAIRIE (PARKING LOT).
(THEY PLAYED IN A PARKING LOT, AND CALLED IT A PRAIRIE}.
Submitter comment: A FEW YEARS LATER THE ENEMY WERE THE COMMIES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Date learned: 11-03-1971
LUCK STRIKE GAME
UPON SEEING AN EMPTY LUCKY STRIKE CIGARETTE PACK,
YOU TRY TO STEP ON IT WITH YOUR FOOT WITHOUT ANYBODY
ELSE SEEING YOU. THEN YOU ARE ALLOWED TO PUNCH THE
FIRST PERSON WHO COMES NEAR ENOUGH, SAYING, "LUCKY
STRIKE!" YOU MUST SAY "WIPED IT OFF!" OR THAT PERSON
CAN PUNCH YOU BACK USING THE SAME PACK. YOU USUALLY
PUNCHED THE PERSON IN THE ARM.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; SCRANTON
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement BELIEF -- Number |
Date learned: 00001950S
INDIAN GAME
INFORMANT SAID THAT THIS GAME CAN BE PLAYED WITH ONLY
TWO PARTICIPANTS. THEY GRAB ONTO EACH OTHER'S
ELBOWS AT THE CROOK WITH THE OBJECTIVE BEING TO
TRY TO STEP ON EACH OTHER'S FEET. THE FIRST
PARTICIPANT TO GET HIS FOOT STEPPED UPON LOSES THE
GAME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Date learned: 12-02-1971
CAPTAIN AHAB
FOR THIS GAME, THE PERSONS WHO DO NOT KNOW CAPTAIN
AHAB ARE BLINDFOLDED AND TAKEN INTO ANOTHER ROOM.
ONE BY ONE, THEY ARE TAKEN INTO THE MAIN ROOM.
STILL BLINDFOLDED, THEY ARE SEATED OPPOSITE
CAPTAIN AHAB. CAPTAIN AHAB IS ONE OF THE GUYS AT
THE PARTY WHO MERELY TAKES HIS ARM OUT OF THE SPORT
JACKET, AND SITS WITH ONE LEG UNDER HIM. THUS, THE
PERSON IS TOLD THAT CAPTAIN--A WAR VICTIM--HAS ONE
GOOD ARM, BUT LOST THE OTHER ONE AND ONE GOOD LEG
BUT THE OTHER WAS SHOT OFF AT THE KNEE. THE PERSON
FEELS THE GOOD ARM AND THE BAD ONE; THE GOOD LEG AND
THE BAD ONE. HE IS ALLOWED TO FEEL ONE EAR BUT NOT
THE OTHER, BECAUSE IT IS STILL SENSITIVE FROM THE
PAIN. ALL THIS TIME THERE IS A THIRD PERSON INTRO-
DUCING CAPTAIN AHAB AND HOLDING THE NEWCOMER'S HAND
TO GUIDE TO CAPTAIN AHAB'S DESIGNATED POINTS. FINALLY,
THE PERSON TOUCHES CAPT. AHAB'S GOOD EYE AND IS ABOUT
TO TOUCH HIS BAD EYE, GUIDED BY THE THIRD PERSON
WHO JAMS IT INTO A JAR OF VASELINE.
Submitter comment:
I HAVE SEEN THIS GAME MANY TIMES, BUT NOBODY SEEMS TO
KNOW WHO STARTED IT.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
BEAVER
WHEN A PERSON SAW A STATIONWAGON WITH WOOD PANELS,
HE WOULD YELL "BEAVER," AND HIT THE PERSON NEXT TO
HIM IN THE ARM.
Submitter comment:
THIS WAS A CUSTOM POPULAR AMONG ST. JOSEPH SCHOOL
CHILDREN IN WYANDOTTE, MICHIGAN IN THE LATE 1950S.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE ILE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 10-02-1970
"OLD MAID"
KIDS IN CIRCLE WITH EVERYONE HOLDING HANDS-ODD NUMBER OF KIDS.
THERE IS ONE PERSON IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CIRCLE. ALL COUNT FROM
1 TO 20 --STOPPING HERE BECAUSE 20 IS A GOOD MARRIAGEABLE AGE.
EVERYONE RUNS FOR A PARTNER: ONE IS LEFT OUT AND IS THE OLD
MAID, TO BE IN THE CENTER OF THE CIRCLE THE NEXT TIME THE GAME
IS PLAYED.
Submitter comment: PAT LEARNED THIS GAME WHILE BEING A CAMP CONSELOR IN 1971 IN NC
Data entry tech comment: SPELLING ERRORS WERE CORRECTED
Where learned: PEABODY COLLEGE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Date learned: 06-12-1972
GAME
IN ENGLAND THEY STILL HAVE CONTESTS TO SEE WHO CAN
MAKE THE UGLIEST FACES. IT IS PERMISSABLE TO
USE YOUR HANDS. THIS SPORT IS CALLED "GUNERING."
IT FIRST BEGAN IN 1267. THE CHAMPION TODAY IS
ALBERT BENNION.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity SPEECH -- Instructions Directions |
A CIRCULAR MOTION OF THE HAND WITH THE INDEX FINGER POINTED
STRAIGHT OUT TURNING TO THE RIGHT MEANS "TO PICK IT UP,"
OR "YOU'RE TOO SLOW."
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT USES THIS WHEN HE'S ENGAGED IN A SPORT ACTIVITY
SUCH AS BOWLING, BASEBALL, OR RUNNING TRACK. THE
INFORMANT IS VERY ACTIVE IN ATHLETICS AND HAS USED AND SEEN
OTHERS USE THIS GESTURE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity SPEECH -- Instructions Directions |
Date learned: 10-31-1971