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Language: Games
Pastime:
If you see another child with money you yell- "Butts on you." He then must share anything he buys with that money with you. However, when he pulls out his money, if he yells - "fan butts" first, then he doesn't have to share his purchases.
Submitter comment:
Bill used to play this as a child when he was given money, or if one of his friends was given money. He said it was common to yell this.
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James Callow comment:
Miscellaneous grammar correction written on card.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE ; Felsenfeld, William
Keyword(s): Buy ; CHILDREN ; Currency ; Dollars ; GAME ; MONEY ; Own ; Ownership ; Pastime ; Purchase ; Share
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime SPEECH -- Formula |
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Play on Words
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
Too Young:
A young forth grade girl went up to her teacher and asked "can I have a baby?"
"Why no," ansewred the teacher, "you are much too young."
From the back of the room came a deep sigh of relief.
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James Callow comment:
Submission card located in pile marked These don't sound traditional - Do Not File Yet.
Where learned: Didia, Dominic Jr
Keyword(s): CHILD ; CHILDREN ; HUMOR ; JOKE ; PREGNANCY ; PUN ; SEX
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote Filter - Mature Content |
Toast
May all your children be born bald and naked.
Data entry tech comment:
There were two identical cards for this submission: The only difference is that one listed an informant and the other did not. I included the informant in the submission and combined the cards to avoid duplicate entries.
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Where learned: Michael Saad
Keyword(s): Bald ; CHILDREN ; DRINKING ; Naked ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
may your children have rich parents.
Submitter comment:
She heard this from a Polish disk jockey who was from Chicago.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Szczerbinski, Chris
Keyword(s): CHILDREN ; DRINKING ; ETHNIC ; fortune ; PARENTS ; POLISH ; Riches ; Social ; TOAST ; WEALTH
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Retort
Did your mother have any children that lived?
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James Callow comment:
[To What?] is written next tot he title.
Keyword(s): CHILDREN ; COMEBACK ; INSULT ; MOTHER ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; Wisecrack
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Proverb
Children should be seen but not heard
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [V600, V300] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Hessenbruch, John
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; CHILDREN ; FAMILY ; Heard ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; SEEN ; Sight ; Sound ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Proverb
Children should be seen and not heard.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [V200] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: Grady, Marcia
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; CHILD ; CHILDREN ; Hear ; Heard ; Maxim ; Parenting ; PROVERB ; Rearing ; See ; SEEN ; Sight ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Proverb
Children should be seen and not heard.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [F533] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: OHIO ; Missler, Lori ; Norwalk
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; CHILD ; CHILDREN ; Hear ; Heard ; Maxim ; Parent ; Parenting ; PROVERB ; Rearing ; See ; Sight ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Proverb
Little pitchers have big ears.
Submitter comment:
I heard this in Ferndale, MI
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Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; CHILDREN ; Maxim ; METAPHOR ; Pitcher ; PROVERB ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
Children should be seen not heard.
Submitter comment:
When company is over, they should not talk unless spoken to.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [V200] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Pietras, Constance
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; CHILDREN ; Heard ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; Raising ; Rearing ; SEEN ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Language: Rhyme
When you get married and live in a truck,
Order your children from Sears Roebuck.
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Keyword(s): CHILDREN ; Language ; Married ; poem ; RHYME ; Roebuck ; Sears ; TRUCK ; VERSE ; Vocabulary
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Entertainment: Games
Chant From Calling In People Who Are Still Hidden in Hide and Seek:
"Come in oh, Come in, oh; If you don't come in, you're it."
Submitter comment:
The informant learned it from his friends.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [C570] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; Pawlik, Jim
Keyword(s): CHANT ; CHILD ; CHILDHOOD ; CHILDREN ; Diversion ; Entertainment ; GAME ; Play ; RHYME
| Subject headings: | -- .C750520 |
Special Memory Quilts
A lot of mothers made "memory quilts" that was pieces of material from dresses or skirts of all in the family like-a scrap of Baby's first colored dress or their first year in school dress, little boys first year, and first year school shirt. Any occassion that meant a lot to them, they would enter the material of what that person wore-no pattern, just sew any shape togehter. It was called "Memories' Crazy Quilt"
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Where learned: FLORIDA ; Houghton, Mrs Mary ; Plant City
Keyword(s): Babies ; CHILDREN ; Craft ; Domestic ; Heirloom ; Keepsake ; MEMORIES ; Quilting ; Textiles
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Finished Product |
Prose Narrative Tale
Prose Narrative Tale:
Folktale of New England -- The Gingerbread Man.
Children's story of a runaway cookie including repeated theme: "rubn, run, as fast as you can. Can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread man."
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; Bookhouse Volume One
Keyword(s): CATCH ; CHILDREN ; Cookie ; Fast ; Gingerbread ; Gingerbread Man ; Legend ; Narrative ; New England ; Prose ; REGIONAL ; Run ; Tale
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Tale |
Custom
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
When you fart if you don't call "Safeties," Everyone calls "Sluggers" and everyone gets to slug you.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [F530] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Pustell, Linda
Keyword(s): BODILY FUNCTIONS ; CHILDHOOD ; CHILDREN ; CUSTOM ; Fart ; GAME ; Gas ; Play ; SAFETY ; Slugger ; tradition
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Language: Rhyme
Hickup Hickup go away
Come again another day
Hickup Hickup when I bake
I'll bake you a CAKE
Submitter comment:
Pastime.
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James Callow comment:
Children sing this when they get the hiccups. Verse?
Original BN [C500, C730] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Keyword(s): Bake ; Cake ; CHILDREN ; GAME ; HICCUP ; Hickup ; Language ; Nursery ; RHYME ; SONG ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Proverb
Little pitchers have big ears.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [V300] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Already Under V200, Who Said? Said to children who hear things they shouldn't.
Where learned: HOME ; 17287 GREENVIEW ; Maloney, Beatrice
Keyword(s): Big ; CHILDREN ; EARS ; Eavesdrop ; EUPHEMISM ; Little ; METAPHOR ; Overhear ; Pitchers ; SIMILE ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Childrens' Rhyme
Everyday we go to shop
At the bakery, I like to stop
And point my finger and say "let's try it."
But my mother replies, "You're on a diet."
Oh, how happy I will be
When Mother no longer says to me:
"You can't eat this, You can't eat that,
Cause this and that will make you fat."
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; Reichman, Sydney J
Keyword(s): Bakery ; CHILDREN ; Eat ; Fat ; Language ; MOTHER ; RHYME ; Shop ; SONG ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
NOBODY LOVES ME,
EVERYBODY HATES ME.
THINK I'LL EAT SOME WORMS!
BIG, FAT, JUICY ONES
LITTLE, SLIMY, SKINNY ONES
ROUND AND HAIRY WORMS!
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Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD
Keyword(s): CHILD ; CHILDREN ; KIDS ; RHYME ; SONG ; WORMS
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hate |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
I HAD A LITTLE CHICKEN WHO WOULDN'T LAY AN EGG
SO I RUBBED HOT WATER UP AND DOWN HER LEG.
THE LITTLE CHICKEN CRIED
AND THE LITTLE CHICKEN BEGGED
Data entry tech comment:
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; Greene, Marilee
Keyword(s): Chicken ; CHILD ; CHILDREN ; Children's Song ; Egg ; Hard Boiled ; Kid ; RHYME ; SONG
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Date learned: 04-00-1972