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ONE WHITE FOOT, BUY IT.
TWO WHITE FEET, TRY IT.
THREE WHITE FEET, SEE HOW IT GOES,
FOUR WHITE FEET, AND WHITE NOSE,
CUT OFF ITS FEET AND THROW IT TO THE CROWS.
Submitter comment: THIS APPLIES TO BUYING A HORSE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BLOOMFIELD HILLS
Keyword(s): ADVICE ; ANIMAL NUMBERS ; HUMOR EUPHEMISM SYMBOL OVERSTATEMENT ; INCREMENTAL REPETITION, SURPRISE ENDING CONTRAST QUINTET ; INTERACTION INITIAL INCREMENTAL REPETITION ; METER: DACTYL RHYME: FEMININE TRIPLE ; RHYME AABBB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL WHO HAD A LITTLE CURL,
RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF HER FOREHEAD.
WHEN SHE WAS GOOD, SHE WAS VERY, VERY GOOD;
WHEN SHE WAS BAD, SHE WAS HORRID.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT'S FATHER SAID THIS TO HER OFTEN WHEN SHE WAS
YOUNGER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): FUNCTION BEHAVIOR ; METER: ANAPESTIC ; MONOLOGUE CONTRAST ; RHYME: FEMININE, IMPERFECT, INTERNAL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
IT'S NOT THE COUGH
THAT CARRIES YOU OFF.
IT'S THE COFFIN
THEY CARRY YOU OFF IN.
Submitter comment: HEARD AND SAID WHEN YOUNG, 1915-1920.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; PITTSBURGH
Keyword(s): DEATH ; HUMOR TANGLETALK PUN ; IAMBIC-DACTYLIC, FEMININE RHYME, WORD PLAY, REPETITION ; OBSERVATION, TONGUETWISTER ; QUATRAIN SURPRISE ENDING CONTRAST ; RHYME: AABB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse |
MOSQUITO FLY HI,
MOSQUITO FLY LO,
FLY ON ME,
YOU FLY NO MO!
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA
Keyword(s): CONTRAST QUATRAIN ELLIPSIS ; HUMOR SLANG CACOGRAPHY UNDERSTATEMENT ; METER: IRREGULAR, RHYME: STRAINED ; PRONUNCIATION ; RHYME: ABCB DIALECT ; THREAT ANIMAL REPETITION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse |
CHILDREN'S RHYME
JEREMIAH, PUFF THE FIRE,
PUFF, PUFF, PUFF.
FIRST, HE BLOWS IT GENTLY,
AND THEN HE BLOWS IT ROUGH.
JEREMIAH, PUFF THE FIRE.
PUFF, PUFF, PUFF.
Submitter comment: NO INFORMATION AS TO WHEN THIS WAS USUALLY RECITED.
Where learned: LETTER
Keyword(s): INCLUSION, SEXTET, CONTRAST ; INDIRECTION, CHARM, ADVICE ; METER: ROCHEE RHYME: ABCBAB ; ONOMATOPOEIA, REPETITION, REFRAIN ALLITERATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse SPEECH -- Onomatopoeia |
Date learned: 11-06-1970
FRIENDS
TRUE FRIENDS ARE LIKE DIAMONDS,
PRECIOUS, BUT RARE.
FALSE FRIENDS ARE LIKE AUTUMN LEAVES,
FOUND EVERYWHERE.
Submitter comment:
FOLLOWING IS FROM INFORMANT'T JUNIOR HIGH AUTOGRAPH BOOK,
1929 - 1933.
Data entry tech comment: ADDED TITLE TO VERSE
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; GLENSHAW
Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Friendship |
Date learned: 10-02-1971
BELIEF--DAILY LIFE
IF THE SUNSET IS CLEAR ON FRIDAY NIGHT, THERE WILL BE A STORM
BEFORE SUNDAY.
Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM HER FATHER.
Where learned: INDIANA ; Hudson Lake
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew |
Date learned: 11-23-1967
IF AN OLD PERSON, WHO HAS DIED, LOOKS YOUNG IN THE
CASKET, THEN A YOUNG PERSON WILL DIE NEXT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ALPENA
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 10-04-1970
IF YOU LAUGH VERY HARD ON FRIDAY, YOU WILL CRY
BEFORE MONDAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour |
SING IN THE MORNING,
CRY BEFORE NIGHT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 08-09-1964
IF YOU SING BEFORE BREAKFAST, YOU'LL CRY BEFORE SUPPER!
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 00001960S EARLY
IF YOU LAUGH BEFORE BREAKFAST, YOU WILL CRY BEFORE
SUPPER.
Where learned: 407 S JUNCTION ; GRANDPARENTS HOME
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 11-29-1970
(KIND AND UNKIND STORY) ST. PETER STORY
ONCE UPON A TIME IN A SMALL TOWN IN SICILY, THERE LIVED A MEAN
STEPMOTHER WITH TWO DAUGHTERS, ONE OF WHOM WAS HER NATURAL DAUGHTER
AND THE OTHER WAS HER STEPDAUGHTER. HOWEVER, HER STEPDAUGHTER, BEING
THE PRETTIER OF THE TWO GIRLS, WAS ALWAYS IN THE KITCHEN SCRUBBING
THE POTS AND PANS AND DOING ALL THE DIRTY WORK THAT HAD TO BE DONE,
WHILE THE NATURAL DAUGHTER WAS JUST LAYING AROUND DOING NOTHING AND
GETTING SELFISH AND MORE SELF-CENTERED EVERY DAY. WELL, THIS
STEPMOTHER MADE THE BREAD FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN AND DELIVERY WAS
MADE DAILY BY HER TWO DAUGHTERS. ONE DAY AS THE BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER
WAS WALKING DOWN THE ROAD, SHE MET AN OLD, BEARDED MAN SITTING ALONG
THE ROADSIDE. HE ASKED HER FOR A SMALL PIECE OF BREAD BECAUSE HE HAD
NOT EATEN FOR TWO DAYS. THE YOUNG GIRL TOOK PITY ON HIM AND GAVE HIM
THE WHOLE LOAF OF BREAD. HE THANKED HER AND TOLD HER IF SHE HEARD THE
ROOSTER CROW ONCE ON THE WAY HOME, SHE WAS NOT TO TURN AROUND. BUT,
IF THE ROOSTER CROWED TWICE, SHE WAS TO TURN AROUND QUICKLY. BEING AN
OBEDIENT GIRL, WHEN THE ROOSTER CROWED ONCE SHE KEPT RIGHT ON
WALKING, BUT WHEN SHE HEARD HIM CROW TWICE, SHE QUICKLY TURNED
AROUND AND AS SHE DID SO, A DIAMOND APPEARED IN THE MIDDLE OF HER
FOREHEAD MAKING HER MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN EVER. UPON RETURNING HOME
AND EXPLAINING WHAT HAPPENED TO HER STEPMOTHER, THE NATURAL DAUGHTER
WANTED TO GO THE SAME ROAD HER SISTER FOLLOWED THE DAY BEFORE.
HOWEVER, BEING SELFISH AND MEAN, WHEN THE POOR OLD MAN APPROACHED HER
AND ASKED FOR A MORSEL OF BREAD, SHE SPAT UPON HIM AND TRIED TO RUN
AWAY. THEREFORE, ANGERED BY HER ACTIONS, HE TOLD HER TO TURN AROUND
IF SHE HEARD THE ROOSTER CROW ONCE, AND TO WALK STRAIGHT AHEAD IF SHE
HEARD HIM CROW TWICE. UPON DOING THIS, AS SHE TURNED AROUND WHEN THE
ROOSTER CROWED ONCE, A BIG HORN GREW IN THE MIDDLE OF HER FOREHEAD,
MAKING HER UGLIER THAN SHE WAS BEFORE.
Submitter comment:
FROM ITALY IN THE EARLY 1900'S
THE MORAL OF THIS STORY IS TO SHARE WITH OTHERS AND HAVE PITY ON
THOSE LESS FORTUNATE THAN YOU, FOR THE LITTLE OLD MAN WAS REALLY ST.
PETER IN DISGUISE, SAID MY GRANDMOTHER.
Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST ; ITALY
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero PROSE NARRATIVE -- Magic |
Date learned: 10-00-1973
I LIKE COFFEE
I LIKE COFFEE, I LIKE TEA/ I
LIKE JUDY TO JUMP WITH ME/ I HATE COFFEE, I HATE TEA/ I HATE JILL TO
JUMP WITH ME/
A RHYME RECITED WHILE JUMPING ROPE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; PORT HURON
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-30-1972
PROVERB
NEVER LAUGH ON FRIDAY; YOU'LL CRY ON SATURDAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 09-20-1972
NEW YEAR'S BELIEF
IT IS CONSIDERED GOOD LUCK TO ACCIDENTLY BREAK A GOBLET ON NEW
YEAR'S EVE, BUT CONVERSELY BAD LUCK TO DO SO ON NEW YEAR'S DAY.
Submitter comment:
Informant says this has been observed for generations in her family, though she does not give much credence to it today.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: OHIO ; CLEVELAND
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 1 New Year's CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F123 CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance BELIEF -- Good luck P881.4 BELIEF -- Bad luck P882.42 |
Date learned: 09-10-1972
IF A PERSON DREAMS ABOUT A WEDDING, IT MEANS THAT THERE WILL BE A
DEATH OF SOMEONE CLOSE.
Where learned: OHIO ; CLEVELAND
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Dreams Dreams about weddings, funerals, and other crucial moments of life |
Date learned: 09-10-1972
" I ALWAYS BURN MY OLD PALMS IN MY FIREPLACE AS WHEN I WAS SMALL"
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT BELIEVED THAT THE PURPOSE OF THIS CUSTOM WAS REVERENCE
FOR SACRED OR BLESSED OBJECTS, BUT THE INFORMANT WAS NOT SURE OF THE
REASON FOR USING THE FIREPLACE.
Where learned: DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F633 F633.11 |
Date learned: 11-05-1972
LAUGH BEFORE BREAKFAST AND YOU WILL CRY BEFORE SUPPER
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT REMEMBERS HER MOTHER TELLING HER THIS IN DETROIT DURING THE
EARLY 1930S
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN ; TOLD IN
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST ; INEVITABILITY OF CHANGE
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 09-19-1972
PROVERB
YOUR FRIEND LOOKS AT YOUR FACE.
YOUR ENEMY LOOKS AT YOUR FEET.
Submitter comment:
(HE IS YOUR ENEMY BECAUSE HE IS LOOKING AT THE DIRTIEST PART
OF YOUR LIFE.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ALLEN PARK
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST ALLITERATION PARALLELISM
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 09-00-1972