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GAME RHYME
PLAYED WITH THE OPEN HAND OF A YOUNG CHILD. STARTING
ON THE SMALLEST FINGER, YOU TOUCH THE TIP OF EACH
FINGER AND WHILE DOING SO SAY "TIPPSY." AT THE
INDEX FINGER, YOU RUN DOWN THE SIDE OF THE FINGER
AND UP THE SIDE OF THE THUMB TO ITS TIP WHILE SAYING,
"WHOOPS TIPPSY!"
Where learned: NEW YORK ; LE ROY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics |
Date learned: 02-00-1971
THE NAME OF A CHILDHOOD GAME IS "ROCK, SCISSORS,
PAPER." IT IS PLAYED BY TWO PEOPLE. EACH HELD ONE
HAND BEHIND HIS BACK AND ON THE COUNT OF "THREE"
BROUGHT IT FORWARD IN ONE OF THREE POSITIONS: TIGHTLY
CLENCHED TO INDICATE A ROCK, FLAT TO INDICATE A PIECE
OF PAPER, OR WITH THE FIRST TWO FINGERS IN A "V"
SHAPE TO INDICATE A PAIR OF SCISSORS. A SHORT
FORMULA, "PAPER COVERS ROCK, ROCK CRUSHES SCISSORS,
SCISSORS CUTS PAPER" DETERMINED WHO WON. TWO SIMILAR
POSITIONS WERE CONSIDERED AS A DRAW. WE USED TO DO IT
JUST FOR FUN OR ONCE IN A WHILE TO DETERMINE WHO GOT
SOME SPECIAL PRIVILEGE.
Submitter comment: I DON'T REMEMBER MY FIRST CONTACT WITH THIS GAME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics |
Date learned: 00-00-1963 ; CHILDHOOD
WHEN TWO PEOPLE SAY THE SAME THING AT THE SAME TIME:
A--"KNIFES"
B--"FORKS"
A--"SPOONS"
B--"NAPKINS"
A--"NEEDLES"
B "PINS"
THEN THEY HOOK THEIR BABY FINGERS TOGETHER AND EACH
PULLS. THE ONE WHO DOESN'T LET GO GETS HER WISH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics |
Date learned: 00-00-1955
CONCENTRATION
EVERYONE GETS A NUMBER. YOU THEN BEGIN TO CLAP.
FIRST SLAP YOUR THIGHS, THEN CLAP, THEN SNAP YOUR
RIGHT FINGERS, THEN YOUR LEFT. YOU SAY "CONCENTRA-
TION, KEEP IN RHYTHM, READY, LET'S GO, LET'S GO,
LET'S GO." THE FIRST PERSON SAYS THEIR NUMBER ON THE
FIRST FINGER SNAP AND SOMEONE ELSE'S NUMBER ON THE
SECOND SNAP. THAT PERSON MUST RESPOND WITH THEIR
NUMBER AND SOMEONE ELSE'S IN RHYTHM. IF YOU MISS,
YOU'RE OUT. THE LAST ONE TO MISS WINS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
ATHLETIC EXERCISES: INDIAN WRESTLING, TWO MEN GRAB
EACH OTHER'S HAND AND PUT THEIR FOOT ALONG SIDE EACH
OTHER'S. THE LOSER IS THE ONE WHO MOVES HIS FOOT
FIRST.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
DOCTOR, DOCTOR
SIX PEOPLE PLAY GAME. ALL BUT ONE GET ALL TANGLED
UP WITH THEIR ARMS AND LEGS. THE SIXTH PERSON IS
THE DOCTOR. AFTER THE OTHER FIVE ARE TANGLED, THEY
CALL, "DOCTOR, DOCTOR." HE COMES AND TRIES TO
UNTANGLE THE PEOPLE. HE HAS BEEN HIDING WHILE
THE PEOPLE WERE TANGLING THEMSELVES UP.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics |
Date learned: 04-04-1970
IT IS BAD LUCK TO LEAVE THE BASEBALL BATS CROSSED
DURING A GAME. IT MEANS YOU WILL LOSE.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT HEARD THIS SUPERSTITION WHILE PLAYING
BASEBALL AS A BOY IN LESLIE, MICHIGAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LESLIE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics BELIEF -- Sign Geometric figure BELIEF -- Bad luck Games Pastimes Sports |
Date learned: 02-27-1965
IT IS BAD LUCK TO SPEAK ABOUT A NO-HIT GAME, IF THE
PITCHER HAS NOT YET ALLOWED A HIT.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT LEARNED THIS WHEN HE WAS PLAYING MINOR
LEAGUE BASEBALL FOR THE WASHINGTON SENATOR'S FARM
SYSTEM.
Where learned: WASHINGTON SENATORS FARM SYSTEM (BASEBALL TEAM)
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics BELIEF -- Number Emptiness, nothingness, zero BELIEF -- Bad luck Games Pastimes Sports |
Date learned: 02-28-1965
WHENEVER A BASEBALL PLAYER GOES ON OR OFF THE FIELD, HE
MAKES SURE HE TOUCHES EITHER THE 1ST OR 3RD BASE
FOUL LINE. IF HIS CLUB'S DUGOUT IS ON THE RIGHT
SIDE OF THE FIELD, HE TOUCHES THE 1ST BASE FOUL LINE,
IF THE DUGOUT IS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE FIELD,
HE TOUCHES THE 3RD BASE FOUL LINE. IT IS VERY BAD
LUCK FOR HIM TO RUN OVER THAT CHALK LINE WITHOUT
TOUCHING IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Date learned: 11-07-1969
WHEN PLAYING BASEBALL, IT IS BAD LUCK TO WALK ON
THE BASELINE WHEN WALKING ACROSS IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement BELIEF -- Bad luck Games Pastimes Sports |
Date learned: 11-16-1968
IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF A BASEBALL TEAM, IT IS BAD
LUCK, IF ON A CLEAR DAY YOU GO UP TO BAT AND A
CLOUD SUDDENLY PASSES BETWEEN YOU AND THE SUN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF A BASKETBALL COACH IS ON A WINNING STREAK, HE
WILL WEAR THE SAME SUIT THROUGHOUT THE STREAK TO
PRESERVE HIS LUCK.
Submitter comment: PICKED THIS UP IN HIGH SCHOOL.
Where learned: NEW HAMPSHIRE ; MILFORD
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics BELIEF -- Conversions Games Pastimes Sports |
Date learned: 08-00-1967
SWINGING STATUES
A KID SWINGS THE OTHER KIDS AROUND BY THE ARM AND LETS THEM GO.
WHILE THEY ARE STILL MOVING HE CALLES "FREEZE" AND THE PERSON
MUST STOP. AFTER ALL HAVE BEEN SWUNG, THE FIRST PERSON THAT
MOVED AFTER HIS FREEZE WAS CALLED, MUST BE HE OR SHE, THE SWINGER.
Submitter comment:
I ALSO PLAYED THIS GAME IN SOUTH CAROLINA, BUT IT WAS CALLED
"FREEZE".
Where learned: PEABODY COLLEGE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics |
Date learned: 06-12-1972
CHING CHONG CHINA MAN
CHING CHONG CHINA MAN
SITTING ON A FENCE
TRIED TO MAKE A DOLLAR OUT
OF FIFTY FIVE CENTS.
HE MISSED, HE MISSED
HE MISSED LIKE THIS.
WHILE DOING THIS, THE PERSON HAS LEGS STRADLE THEN
CROSSED. THE OBJECT IS TO END UP WITH LEGS APART AT
THE END OF RHYME.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Date learned: 11-10-1973
FORMULA SPEECH AND GESTURES
WHENEVER THERE IS A KICK-OFF AT A FOOTBALL GAME,
AT DENBY HIGH SCHOOL {DETROIT, MICHIGAN ASSUMED}
IT WAS TRADITION TO RAISE YOUR ARMS AND INTERLOCK
LITTLE FINGERS WITH THE PERSON NEXT TO YOU AND SAY
GOOOOOO UNTIL THE BALL WAS KICKED. AT NOTRE DAME
HIGH SCHOOL {DETROIT, MICHIGAN ASSUMED} IT WAS
TRADITION TO RAISE YOUR RIGHT ARM AND CIRCLE IT WHILE
YOU SAID GOOO UNTIL THE BALL WAS KICKED.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
SAYING PLUS GESTURE
SEE THE MAN ACROSS THE STREET (FOREFINGER IS PASSED
UNDER THE NOSE).
WITH STRIPES DOWN HIS PANTS (FOREFINGER IS RUBBED DOWN
TROUSER LEG).
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics SPEECH -- Games Riddles Jokes |
Date learned: 09-12-1965
Entertainment: Game
Traditional Game - Simon Says
Instructions are given for players to perform specific body motions. Players are only to obey if instruction is preceded by the words "Simon Says."
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; Furtwengler, Jan
Keyword(s): BODY ; Entertainment ; GAME ; Motion ; Movement ; Obey ; Pastime ; Rules ; Simon Says
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics |
Language: Rhyme
Little Sally Walker, sittin in a saucer,
Rise, Sally, Rise.
Now winking eyes, Now you shake it to the East,
Shake it to the West, Shake it to the very one that Sally loves the best.
Around and around and around she goes,
Where she stops, nobody knows.
Submitter comment:
Hand Clapping Game
Data entry tech comment:
Entered by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; Harris, Patricia
Keyword(s): Clapping ; GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; Sally ; Social
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics |
Club Fist
A matching-up game called "Club Fist" is started by each player putting his fist on top of the previous player until each has a fist in the stack. Then "It" says to the player who has his fist on the top: "What you got there?" "Club fist." "Well, take it off or I'll knock it off." Each fist is removed until the last one, then ask questions. It: "What you got there?" Player: "Piece of cheese." "Where's my share?" "Cat got it." "Where's the cat?" "In the woods." "Where're the woods?" "Fire burned it." "Where's the fire?" "Water squenched it." "Where's the water?" "Ox drank it." "Where's the ox?" "Butcher killed it." "Where's the butcher?" "Rope hung him." "Where's the rope?" "Rat gnawed it." "Where's the rat?" "Cat caught him." "Where's the cat?" "Dead and buried behind the church door, and now the first one who shows his teeth get ten pinches and ten boxes."
Submitter comment:
Then "It" tries to make the other players laugh or speak.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics |
1) A sailor went to sea,sea, sea
to see what he could see, see, see
but all that he could see, see, see
was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea
2) A sailor went to chop-chop-chop
to see what he could chop-chop-chop
but all that he could chop-chop-chop
was the bottom of the deep blue chop-chop-chop
3) A sailor went to knee, knee, knee
to see what he could knee, knee, knee
but all that he could knee, knee, knee
was the bottom of the deep blue knee, knee, knee
4) A sailor went to ankle, ankle, ankle
to see what he could ankle, ankle, ankle
but all that he could ankle, ankle, ankle
was the bottom of the deep blue ankle, ankle, ankle
5) A sailor went to shoo bop e do
to see what he could shoo bop e do
but all that he could shoo bop e do
was the bottom of the deep blue shoo bop e do
6) A sailor went to see, chop, knee, ankle, shoo bop e do
to see what he could see, chop, knee, ankle, shoo bop e do
but all that he could see, chop, knee, ankle, shoo bop e do
was the bottom of the deep blue see, chop, knee, ankle shoo bop e do
When a different part of the body is mentioned, you touch that part.
see--a type of salute (3 times)
chop--chop on arm (3 times)
knee--chop on knee (3 times)
ankle--chop on ankle (3 times)
shoo bop e do--wind arm around wide (once)
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics |