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A GROUP OF CHLDREN WALK IN A HORIZONTAL LINE WITH
ARMS AROUND EACH OTHER SAYING:
LEFT, LEFT, LEFT BY-GOLLY, I LEFT,
I LEFT MY WIFE WITH 42 KIDS ON THE VERGE OF STARVATION.
WITH NOTHING BUT GINERBREAD LEFT, LEFT.
FIRST THEY HIRED ME, THEN THEY FIRED ME,
THEN BY-GOLLY, I LEFT.
EACH TIME THE WORD "LEFT" IS SAID EACH PERSON IS ON
THEIR LEFT FOOT.
Submitter comment:
THIS WAS DONE BY INFORMANT AS A CHLD ABOUT 35 YEARS
AGO IN DETROIT (MICHIGAN).
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 03-20-1972
STATUES
A GROUP OF CHILDREN DANCE AROUND THE ROOM TO FAST
AND LIVELY MUSIC. WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS, THEY
STAND PERFECTLY STILL. ANYONE WHO MOVES IS OUT.
THE GAME CONTINUES UNTIL ONE PLAYER IS LEFT. HE
IS DECLARED THE WINNER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 06-00-1965
RING AROUND A ROSY
PICK A PACK OF POSY
ASHES, ASHES
WE ALL FALL DOWN.
TO PLAY: CHILDREN HOLD HANDS IN CIRCLE, SINGING THE
VERSE ABOVE. THEY MOVE SLOWLY IN A CIRCLE AND FALL DOWN
AT THE LAST LINE.
Submitter comment: HEARD IN ROYAL OAK, MICHIGAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 00001964 SUMMER ; 08-00-1964
RING AROUND THE ROSEY,
POCKET FULL OF POSIES,
ASHES, ASHES, WE ALL FALL DOWN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
RING AROUND THE ROSEY,
A POCKET FULL OF POSEY,
ASHES, ASHES, WE ALL FALL DOWN.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; MCKEESPORT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 10-03-1968
RING AROUND THE ROSIE: RED FACE ON PEOPLE WHO HAD
PLAGUE.
POCKET FULL OF POSIES.
ASHES, ASHES: BODIES BURNED.
WE ALL FALL DOWN: PEOPLE WHO WERE STRICKEN WITH
DISEASE AND DIED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 09-00-1969
KOKEY-POKEY
YOU PUT YOUR RIGHT HAND IN,
YOU PUT YOUR RIGHT HAND OUT.
YOU PUT YOUR RIGHT HAND IN AND SHAKE IT ALL ABOUT.
YOU DO THE HOKEY-POKEY AND TURN YOURSLEF AROUND
AND THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT RECALLS SINGING THIS IN GROUPS WHILE
DOING THE GESTURES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 02-15-1970
TURGELI TIVELI (LITTLE GEORGE)
ONE PLAYER IS "LITTLE GEORGE," EVERYONE ELSE--GO
AROUND IN A CIRCLE AND SING. IN THE SECOND PART,
"GEORGE" COMPLETES SOME MOVEMENT AND EVERYONE
SINGING, DOES THE SAME. REPEATING THE WORDS, "JUS
VAIKAI TAIP DARY-KIT, KAIP TIVELIS DARO," ALL
THE CHILDREN DO THE SAME MOTION. NEXT, ANOTHER
CHILD GOES INTO THE MIDDLE.
Submitter comment:
"YOU CHILDREN, DO THE SAME THING THAT LITTLE GEORGE
IS DOING." (LITERAL TRANSLATION).
THIS IS SIMILAR TO FOLLOW THE LEADER, ONLY WE GO
AROUND IN A CIRCLE AND SING.
A VERY GOOD GAME FOR LITTLE KIDS, AGAIN NO ONE
KNOWS WHO WROTE IT.
Where learned: LITHUANIA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 03-27-1972
SEJAU RUTOZ (PLANTING "RUTA")
THE CHILDREN STAND IN CIRCLES BY FOURS. (FOUR TO A
CIRCLE). EVERYONE'S HANDS ARE ON THEIR HIPS.
SINGING, "SEJAU RUTAZ," THEY HOPPING, PUT OUT THEIR
RIGHT FOOT IN FRONT WITH TOES POINTED.
SEJAU META--THEY DO THE SAME THING WITH THEIR LEFT
FOOT. "SEJAU LELIJELE"--THEY REPEAT THE SAME MOVEMENTS
TWICE (RIGHT, LEFT AND AGAIN RIGHT, LEFT).
SINGING THE WORDS "SEJAU SANO" THE CHILDREN,
STANDING, CLAP TWO TIMES WITH THEIR HANDS. "JAUNAS DIENAS
KAIP ZALIOZ RUTELE"--THEY TURN TO THE RIGHT AND WALK
SIX STEPS. THEIR HANDS ARE HELD IN THE CENTER.
REPEATING "SEJAU SANO JAUNAS DIENAS KAIP ZALIG
RUTELE," THEY REPEAT THE CLAPPING, 6 STEPS TO THE LEFT
THIS TIME.
THIS IS A CHLDREN'S SONG-DANCE GAME. GRADE SCHOOL
STUDENTS DANCE THIS FROM AROUND THE FIRST OR SECOND
GRADE. "RUTA" IS THE LITHUANIAN FLOWER. THE SONG
DOES, THAT THEY PLANTED A "RUTA," THEY PLANTED A "META"
(A MINT SMELLING PLANT, ALSO FOUND ONLY IN LITHUANIA),
THEY PLANTED THEIR YOUNG DAYS, JUST LIKE THEY DID THE
"RUTA."
THEN IT DOES ON HOW THE FLOWERS (RUTA & META) GREW
AND THAT THEIR YOUNG DAYS GREW JUST LIKE THEM (THE
PLANTS). THEN HOW THE FLOWERS (REALLY PLANTS) GOT
TALLER AND BLOSSOMED OUT INTO BEAUTIFUL PLANTS,
AND SO DID THEIR YOUNG LIVES.
Submitter comment: THIS IS A FAVORITE AMONG THE LITTLE KIDS.
Where learned: LITHUANIA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 03-27-1972
RING AROUND THE ROSEY
DURING THE ERA OF THE BUBONIC PLAGUE, CHILDREN SANG:
RING AROUND THE ROSEY,
POCKET FULL OF POSIES,
ATCHOO, ATCHOO,
ALL FALL DOWN.
THE RING WAS THE RASH THAT SIGNALLED THE PLAGUE. THE
POSIES WERE USED TO KILL THE SMELL FROM THE DEAD
BODIES. IT WAS BELIEVED THAT VICTIMS SNEEZED
BEFORE THEY SUCCUMBED TO THE DISEASE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE
A GROUP OF FOUR PEOPLE OR MORE (MORE THE BETTER) FORM
A CIRCLE ALL SITTING DOWN. EXCEPT ONE, DOESN'T GET
IN THE CIRCLE. THE ONE PERSON WALKS AROUND THE CIRCLE
TAPPING PEOPLE ON THE HEAD, SAYING, DUCK. HE CHOOSES
ONE PERSON AND SAYS GOOSE. THE GOOSE PERSON TRIES TO
CATCH THE TAPPING PERSON BEFORE HE RUNS AROUND THE
CIRCLE AND GETS THE EMPTY PLACE OF THE GOOSE PERSON.
IF THE GOOSE DOESN'T CATCH HIM, HE'S IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 03-10-1971
A GAME IN TAIWAN WHICH IS SIMILAR TO THE GAME PLAYED IN
THE STATES, MUSICAL CHAIRS. SIX CHILDREN ARE PLAYING
TOGETHER AND SIT IN A CIRCLE. ONE PERSON IS CHOSEN
TO BE THE GHOST. THIS PERSON SINGS A SONG (SIMPLE
CHILDREN'S SONG) AND WHEN HE STOPS SINGING THE PERSON
TO WHOM HE IS CLOSEST IS THE GHOST.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS GAME IN TAIWAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; TAIWAN ; LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 02-12-1971
BLUE BIRD
THE CHILDREN PLAYING WOULD JOIN HANDS, FORMING A CIRCLE.
ONE CHILD WOULD REMAIN OUT OF THE CIRCLE AND AS THE
SONG WAS SUNG, HE WOULD WEAVE IN AND OUT OF THE CIRCLE.
AS THE THIRD VERSE WAS SUNG, "TAKE A LITTLE GIRL AND TAP
HER ON THE SHOULDER," HE WOULD TAP SOMEONE ON THE
SHOULDER AND THAT PERSON WOULD LEAVE THE CIRCLE, THE
EMPTY SPACE WOULD BE FILLED AND THE SONG WOULD START
OVER THIS TIME WITH THE TWO PEOPLE WEAVING IN AND
OUT OF THE CIRCLE UNTIL THE THIRD VERSE, WHERE THE
SECOND ONE WOULD TAP SOMEONE ON THE SHOULDER, AND SO
ON.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 12-03-1967
TISKET A TASKET
ALL EXCEPT ONE PLAYER WOULD FORM A CIRCLE FACING
INWARDS. THEY WOULD SING THE SONG AND ON THE WORDS
"ON THE WAY I LOST IT," THE SINGLE PLAYER WHO IS NOT
IN THE CIRCLE AND WHO WOULD BE GOING AROUND THE
CIRCLE, WOULD DROP SOMETHING (USUALLY A HANDKERCHIEF)
IN BACK OF SOMEONE. THAT PERSON WOULD THEN HAVE TO
TURN AROUND, GRAB THE OBJECT AND CHASE THE DROPPER
OF THE OBJECT AROUND THE CIRCLE AND TRY TO TOUCH
HIM BEFORE HE REACHED THE EMPTY SPACE IN THE CIRCLE
WHERE HE WOULD BE SAFE. THEN START OVER AGAIN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 12-03-1967
CLAPPING GAME
I AM A PRETTY LITTLE DUTCH GIRL,
AS PRETTY, AS PRETTY CAN BE.
AND ALL THE BOYS UPON MY BLOCK
GO CRAZY OVER ME.
MY BOYFRIEND'S NAME IS HARRY.
HE CAME FROM BERRY - BERRY.
WITH A BUTTON ON HIS NOSE,
AND A CHERRY ON HIS TOES.
AND THAT'S THE WAY MY STORY GOES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 11-29-1967
MAN FROM UNCLE
CONSIDERED A MYSTERY OR WEB GAME. TWO PLAYERS FORM A
BRIDGE WITH THEIR HANDS. THE REST OF THE PLAYERS
MARCH IN A CIRCLE TO MUSIC GOING UNDER THE BRIDGE.
WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS, IF A PERSON IS CAUGHT UNDER
THE BRIDGE HE IS OUT OF THE GAME. IF THE BRIDGE
CATCHES TWO PEOPLE AT ONE TIME, THEY MAY FORM
ANOTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
James Callow Keyword(s): LONDON BRIDGE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 09-24-1969
SCHLAMIEL
YOU WALK IN STEP UNTIL THE COUNT OF TEN. AT TEN YOU
STOP AND SAY: "SCHLAMIEL, SCHLAMILE, SHA HOTSENFEFER,
HOOTCHIE, COOTCHIE." WHILE SAYING THE VERSE YOU
EXTEND FIRST YOUR RIGHT HEEL, THEN YOUR LEFT HEEL
WITH YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HIPS. BEND YOUR KNEES ON
"HOTSENFEFER" AND SWING YOUR HIPS ON "HOOTCHIE,
COOTCHIE." BEGIN WALKING AGAIN AND COUNTING TO TEN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CYO CAMP ; CARSONVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 00001970 SUMMER
BLUE BIRD
GROUP FORMS A CIRCLE WITH ONE PERSON WEAVING IN AND
OUT OF GROUP, WHILE ALL SING THE CHANT:
BLUE BIRD, BLUE BIRD, IN AND OUT MY WINDOW.
BLUE BIRD, BLUE, BIRD, IN AND OUT MY WINDOW.
BLUE BIRD, BLUE BIRD, IN AND OUT MY WINDOW,
OH, JOHNNY AREN'T YOU TIRED?
TAKE A LITTLE GIRL AND TAP HER ON THE SHOULDER.
TAKE A LITTLE GIRL AND TAP HER ON THE SHOULDER.
TAKE A LITTLE GIRL AND TAP HER ON THE SHOULDER.
OH, JOHNNY AREN'T YOU TIRED.
EACH TAPPED PERSON CONTINUES IN A LINE UNTIL ALL
ARE IN THE LINE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ALPENA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 10-04-1970
LITTLE SALLY SAUCER
GROUP FORMS A CIRCLE AROUND "SALLY" AND CHANTS:
LITTLE SALLY SAUCER,
SITTING IN HER SAUCER.
RISE, SALLY, RISE,
WIPE OUT YOUR EYES.
POINT TO THE EAST,
POINT TO THE WEST,
POINT TO THE VERY ONE
THAT YOU LOVE BEST.
PERSON POINTED AT REPLACES "SALLY" IN THE CIRCLE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ALPENA ; SAINT BERNARD SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 11-06-1970
HOW MANY MILES TO BANTRY BAY?
LEADER: HOW MANY MILES TO BANTRY BAY?
GROUP: 3,000
LEADER: MAY I GO THROUGH OUR GOLDEN GATES?
GROUP: NO! WHERE'S YOUR MAN AND WHERE'S YOUR BOAT?
LEADER: (HITS HIS CHEST) HERE'S MY MAN, (HITS THE
PERSON NEXT TO HIM) AND HERE'S MY BOAT, SO OPEN
YOUR GATES AND LET US THROUGH!
TO PLAY THIS GAME, THE CHILDREN FORM A LINE HOLDING
HANDS; THE LAST TWO CHILDREN IN THE LINE MAKE THE
BRIDGE, THE FIRST ONE IS THE LEADER. AFTER PULLING
THE LINE THROUGH THE BRIDGE, THE LEADER TAKES THE LAST
PLACE IN LINE AND THUS THERE IS A NEW LEADER TO START
THE GAME AGAIN.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT SAW THIS GAME BEING PLAYED BY HER
SECOND GRADE CLASS AT OUR LADY OF GRACE SCHOOL, DEAR-
BORN HEIGHTS, MICHIGAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching |
Date learned: 11-12-1970