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Belief: Weather

Belief in Verse - Prediction:

Rain by seven, Done by eleven.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Dup. of WPP

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; ; Curtin, John

Keyword(s): NATURE ; PREDICTING WEATHER ; PREDICTION ; Rain ; RHYME ; Sky ; TIME ; WEATHER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb

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Belief: Weather

Weather Proverb in Verse:

Red at night, sailor's delight. Red in the morning, sailors take warning.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Dup. of WPP

Where learned: St Jean, David

Keyword(s): COLOR ; NATURE ; Nautical ; Ocean ; PREDICTING WEATHER ; PREDICTION ; RHYME ; Sailor ; Sky ; WARNING ; WEATHER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb

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Belief: Weather

Evening Red and Morning Gray, set the traveler on his way.

But evening gray and morning red, bring the rain upon his head.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [C800] crossed out. Replaced wtih current classification.

Dup. of WPP

Where learned: Klecha, Brenda

Keyword(s): COLOR ; NATURE ; PREDICTING WEATHER ; PREDICTION ; RHYME ; Sky ; Traveler ; WARNING ; WEATHER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb

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Belief: Weather

It's All in the Color:

Evening red and morning gray

Will speed the traveller on his way;

Evening gray and morning red,

Will bring the rain upon his head.

Submitter comment:

Found in a paper placement printed in Rhode Island. Paper then found in Audio's Pizzaria, Detroit, MI.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Dup. of WPP

Where learned: Rhode Island

Keyword(s): COLOR ; NATURE ; PREDICTING WEATHER ; PREDICTION ; RHYME ; Sky ; Traveler ; WARNING ; WEATHER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb C880.890

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Belief: Weather

Rainbow:

Rainbow at night, sailors delight; Rainbow in the morning, sailors take warning.

Submitter comment:

Paper placement, printed in Rhode Island. Paper wwas then found in Audio's Pizzaria in Detroit.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Dup. of WPP

Where learned: Rhode Island

Keyword(s): COLOR ; NATURE ; Nautical ; Ocean ; PREDICTING WEATHER ; PREDICTION ; RHYME ; Sailor ; Sky ; WARNING ; WEATHER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb C880.890

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Belief: Weather

Weather Prediction:

Start to rain before seven, quit before eleven.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [P800] crossed out. Replaced with current classification

Dup. of WPP

Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; ; Griffiths, Emily

Keyword(s): NATURE ; PREDICTING WEATHER ; PREDICTION ; Rain ; RHYME ; Sky ; TIME ; WEATHER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb

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Belief: Weather

April Showers bring May flowers.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [V600] crossed out. Replaced with current classifications.

Dup. of WPP

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): April ; FLOWERS ; May ; Month ; NATURE ; PREDICTING WEATHER ; PREDICTION ; Rain ; RHYME ; Sky ; TIME ; WEATHER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb

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Language

Tongue Twister:

Sister Susie sews shirts for seven soldiers.

Submitter comment:

She learned it from her girlfriends at school

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Similar one already typed as Prose

Where learned: 9175 YORKSHIRE ; Winay, Maureen

Keyword(s): HUMOR ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Baby Bunting:

By bye baby bunting, daddy's gone a hunting, for to catch a rabbit skin to wrap the baby bunting in.

Submitter comment:

My mother repeated this to my brothers and sisters and myself when we were very young. It was told to her when she was a child. It is a small verse used to explain the absence of father when the child asks where he is.

Data entry tech comment:

Added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Verse?

Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Thompson, Betty J ; 18691 Ferguson

Keyword(s): BABY ; infant ; Language ; Parent ; Prose ; RHYME

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Language

A big black bug bled blue blood.

Submitter comment:

My Neighborhood

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Tongue Twister? This much (A big black bug) already typed as Prose.

Where learned: HOME ; ; Borski, Pauline P

Keyword(s): BLOOD ; Blue ; Bug ; GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Tongue Twister:

Betty Botter bought some butter

She put it in her butter, but it made her butter bitter.

So she bought some better butter but it made her batter worse.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Each time the word Butter appears, it is circled, with a questionmark.

Where learned: HOME ; Wilhelm, David

Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Tongue Twister:

I'm not a fig plucker, nor a fig pluckers son, but I'll pluck figs till a fig plucker comes.

Submitter comment:

Said as fast as possible and repeated until subject is thoroughly confused.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [S570] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

The words Taste? and Verse? are written across the top of the card. The word Verse?  is then crossed out.

Keyword(s): Fig ; GAME ; Language ; Pig ; RHYME ; Swear ; SWEARING ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech
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Tongue Twister:

Betty Botter bought some butter. But, she said, the butters bitter: If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter will make my batter better. So she bought a bit of butter and put it in her batter and it made her batter worse.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Baking ; Batter ; Butter ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Tongue Twister:

Betty Batter bought a bit of bitter batter.

Submitter comment:

She learned it from girlfriends at school.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 9175 YORKSHIRE ; Winay, Maureen

Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Tongue Twister:

Of all the saw I ever saw saw, I never saw a saw saw like that saw saws.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [C700] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Something similar in Prose already typed.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; ; Wisok, David

Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Tongue Twister:

Rush the washing Russell,

Rush the washing Russell.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

A question mark is written on the card.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; ; Bernard, Michael

Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: -- .C700, S570

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Tongue Twister:

Sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack

Sheep should sleep in a shed.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Malle Verse?

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Jekabson, Martha ; 16765 Beech Daly ; REDFORD

Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Tongue Twister:

I stood on the steps of Burgesses fish sauce shop,

Mimicking him hiccuping and welcoming him in.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Burgess's?

Make Verse?

The word him is underlined, with an arrow pointing at it with the word Ant??

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Wisok, David

Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music
SPEECH -- Formula

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Tongue Twister:

That that is, is that that is not, is not. Is not that it?

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; ; Lamb, Rich

Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Tongue Twister:

A canner can can all the things that he can, but a canner can't can a can can he?

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Sense??

Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; GAMES ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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