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LIMERICK
THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF PERU/ WHO DREAMED HE WAS KISSING HIS SHOE.
HE AWOKE IN THE NIGHT/ IN A TERRIBLE FRIGHT,/ AND FOUND IT WAS
PERFECTLY TRUE }
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; 16765 Beech Daly ; 48240 ; REDFORD
Keyword(s): RHYME: AABBA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: NOT RECORDED BY THE COLLECTOR
LADY FROM TELLER
THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY FROM TELLER/ SHE SAT ON A BOW-LEGGED FELL'ER
SHE MADE A MISHAP/ AND SHE FELL FROM HIS LAP/ AND SHE FOUND HERSELF
DOWN IN THE CELLAR.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED IT FROM HER FATHER MANY YEARS AGO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): FEMININE RHYME ; RHYME: AABBA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 08-00-1964
LIMERICK
THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY NAMED SUE/WHO SAW A STRANGE BEAST AT THE ZOO.
WHEN SHE ASKED, IS IT OLD?/ SHE WAS SMILINGLY TOLD,/ IT'S NOT AN OLD
BEAST, BUT A GNU.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE ; 237 FELICE ST
Keyword(s): ANIMALS ; DIALOGUE ; PUN ; RHYME: AABBA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 11-12-1968
TOO MUCH CHEESE
THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN NAMED NED,/WHO, JUST BEFORE GOING TO BED,
ATE VERY MUCH/ OF A CHEESE THAT WAS DUTCH__/ AND WHEN HE WOKE UP HE
WAS DEAD }
Submitter comment:
ORIGIN: AUNT MARY WHO LIVES IN ST. LOUIS, MO. USED TO SAY THIS RIME
TO HIM BEFORE GOING TO BED.
Where learned: FITZGERALD PLAYGROUND ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): FOOD ; RHYME: AABBA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 07-29-1964
FALLING...
YOU MAY FALL FROM THE PORCH ROOF,/ YOU MAY FALL FROM ABOVE,
BUT THE GREATEST FALL YOU'LL EVER HAVE,/ IS WHEN YOU FALL IN LOVE.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA
Keyword(s): RHYME: ABCB
| Subject headings: | 730 Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 09-12-1965
AUTOGRAPH VERSE (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; ANNOUNCING A SIGNATURE (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
I THOUGHT AND THOUGHT, I THOUGHT IN VAIN,
BUT ALL I COULD THINK OF WAS TO SIGN MY NAME.
Submitter comment:
THIS ITEM WAS WRITTEN IN THE AUTOGRAPH BOOK OF COLETTE'S BY A
SCHOOLMATE.
Where learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
Keyword(s): FUNCTION ; IMPERFECT RHYME ; ITERATION ; RHYME: AA ; RHYME: ABCB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Announcing a signature |
Date learned: 10-08-1967
AUTOGRAPH BOOK (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; ANNOUNCING A SIGNATURE (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
IT TICKLES ME/ IT MAKES ME LAUGH/ TO THINK YOU WANT/ MY AUTOGRAPH
Data entry tech comment: LINES DIVIDED BY KEYPUNCHER
Where learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
Keyword(s): FUNCTION ; RHYME: ABCB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Announcing a signature |
Date learned: 09-00-1968
VERSE AUTOGRAPH MATERIAL (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; CHIMNEY CORNER WISDOM, ADVICE (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
IF YOU FIND A FELLOW GOOD AND TRUE,/ HANG TO HIS COAT TAIL AND
STICK LIKE GLUE./ BUT IF YOU FIND YOUR HOLD MUST SLIP,/ GRAB
ANOTHER AND LET HIM RIP. MARTHA BORGMANN
Submitter comment:
RECOPIED FROM AN OLDER AUTOGRAPH BOOK DATING AROUND 1850.
THE SELECTIONS FROM THE OLDER BOOK WERE ALSO COLLECTED IN INDIANA.
Where learned: AUTOGRAPH BOOK ; INDIANA ; BROOKVILLE
Keyword(s): ADVICE QUATRAIN ; RHYME: AABB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Chimney corner wisdom, advice, humorous fortune |
Date learned: 08-09-1960
LOOK NOT (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; CHIMNEY CORNER WISDOM, ADVICE (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
LOOK NOT FOR THE BEAUTY/ NOR WHITENESS OF THE SKIN.
BUT LOOK FOR THE HEART/ THAT IS LOYAL WITHIN.
FOR BEAUTY MAY FADE/ AND SKIN GROW OLD,
BUT THE HEART THAT IS LOYAL,/ WILL NEVER GROW OLD.
Submitter comment: LEARNED IN DETROIT.
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): ADVICE QUATRAIN ; METONYMY ; RHYME: ABCB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Chimney corner wisdom, advice, humorous fortune |
Date learned: 00-00-1963
VERSE (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; CYNICAL INSIGHT (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
NEEDLES AND PINS,/ NEEDLES AND PINS,/ WHEN YOU GET OLDER,/ YOUR
TROUBLE BEGINS. P.S. DON'T COME TO ME.
Where learned: AUTOGRAPH BOOK
Keyword(s): LOSS OF YOUTH ; REPETITION ; RHYME: AABA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Cynical insight |
Date learned: 00-00-1959
AUTOGRAPH (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; CYNICAL INSIGHT (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
FALSE TEETH, ROUGE, AND BORROWED HAIR/ MAY GIVE TO AGE A YOUTHFUL
AIRE./ BUT WHEN DEATH COMES TO CALL US HENCE/ THERE IS AN END OF
ALL PRETENCE.
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): MAKEUP WIG ; RHYME DEATH ; RHYME: AABB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Cynical insight |
Date learned: 00001955 AUTOGRAPH BOOK
AUTOGRAPH BOOK VERSE (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; EXHORTATORY OR HOMILETIC (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
YOUR LIFE LIES BEFORE YOU,/ LIKE A BANK OF SNOW,/ BE CAREFUL HOW YOU
TREAD IT,/ FOR EVERY STEP WILL SHOW.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 9616 ABINGTON
Keyword(s): RHYME: ABCB ; SIMILE FROM NATURE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Exhortatory or homiletic, "to be a good girl" |
Date learned: 00-00-1940 ; 12-05-1967
AUTOGRAPH BOOK MATERIAL (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; EXHORTATORY OR HOMILETIC (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
REMEMBER YOUNG LADY BEFORE YOU GROW OLD/ A GOOD EDUCATION IS BETTER
THAN GOLD/ FOR GOLD IN TIME WILL TARNISH AWAY/ BUT A GOOD
EDUCATION WILL NEVER DECAY
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN ; 6627 Whitefield
Keyword(s): EDUCATION ADVICE ; FEMININE RHYME ; RHYME: AABB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Exhortatory or homiletic, "to be a good girl" |
Date learned: 10-12-1968
AUTOGRAPH_ RHYME (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; FORGET ME NOT (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
UPON A HILL/ CARVED IN A ROCK/ THREE LITTLE WORDS/ FORGET ME NOT.
Submitter comment:
WRITTEN IN INFORMANT'S EIGHTH GRADE AUTOGRAPH BOOK ON OCTOBER 25,1934
IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): IMPERFECT RHYME: ROCK/NOT ; RHYME: ABCB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Forget me not |
Date learned: 00-00-1934
REMEMBER THIS DOT (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; FORGET ME NOT (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
REMEMBER THIS DOT..../ REMEMBER THIS BLOT... /FORGET ME NOT.
Data entry tech comment: THE PERIODS ENDING LINE TWO ARE FOLLOWED WITH A BLOT
Where learned: WRITTEN IN YEARBOOK
Keyword(s): RHYME: AAA ; TYPOGRAPHICAL VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Forget me not |
Date learned: 06-00-1966
GIFT OF FRIENDSHIP (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; FRIENDSHIP (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
OF ALL THE GIFTS I'VE GIVEN MYSELF,/ MOST COMFORTING, TRIED AND TRUE.
THE ONE I OFTENEST THINK ABOUT,/ IS THE GIFT TO MYSELF OF YOU.
Submitter comment: A CLASSMATE HAD WRITTEN THIS IN INFORMANT'S AUTOGRAPH BOOK.
Data entry tech comment: COMMA ADDED IN THE PLACE OF A PERIOD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; AUTOGRAPH BOOK ; FARMINGTON ; 29630 FERNHILL
Keyword(s): QUATRAIN ; RHYME: ABCB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Friendship |
Date learned: 00-00-1963
AUTOGRAPH BOOK (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; FRIENDSHIP (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
WHEN A FEATHER WEIGHS A POUND,/ WHEN A FOX SHALL CHOOSE A HOUND,/
WHEN THE WORLD WILL COME TO AN END,/ THEN WILL I CEASE TO BE
YOUR FRIEND?
Where learned: LIBRARY
Keyword(s): RHETORICAL QUESTION ; RHYME ANIMAL ; RHYME: AABB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Friendship |
Date learned: 09-00-1967
TELL YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; GIRL CHANGING HER NAME (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
TELL YOUR MOTHER TO HOLD HER TONGUE,/FOR SHE LIKED BOYS WHEN SHE
WAS YOUNG./ TELL YOUR FATHER TO DO THE SAME,/ FOR HE WAS THE ONE
WHO CHANGED HER NAME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; AUTOGRAPH BOOK ; DETROIT ; 17647 PATTON
Keyword(s): CENSURE OF PARENTS ; MARRIAGE ; RHYME: AABB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Girl changing her name |
Date learned: 11-03-1968
AUTOGRAPH RHYME (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; GIRL CHANGING HER NAME (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
MARY ONCE, MARY, ALWAYS,/ SCHNEIDER ONCE, BUT NOT ALWAYS.
Submitter comment:
WRITTEN IN INFORMANT'S EIGHTH GRADE AUTOGRAPH BOOK IN 1934 (OCT.25)
IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN. INFORMANT'S MAIDEN NAME WAS SCHNEIDER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): MARRIAGE ; MEDIAL AND FINAL ITERATION ; RHYME: ABAB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Girl changing her name |
Date learned: 10-00-1934
FOLK VERSE (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; GOOD WISHES (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
MAY YOUR JOYS BE AS DEEP AS THE OCEAN
AND YOUR SORROWS AS LIGHT AS ITS FOAM.
Submitter comment: MINNIE LORENZ WROTE THIS IN INFORMANT'S AUTOGRAPH BOOK.
Where learned: NORTH DAKOTA
Keyword(s): RHYME: AA ; SIMILE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Good wishes (sincere) |
Date learned: 00-00-1929