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PAUL REVERE'S DASH
TWAS THE 18TH OF APRIL IN '75,
HARDLY A MAN IS YET ALIVE
WHO REMEMBERS THAT FAMOUS DAY AND YEAR,
OF THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE.
UP THE ALLEY AND DOWN THE STREET,
A TWENTY-YARD DASH FOR THE TOILET SEAT.
Submitter comment:
SHE FIRST HEARD IT IN A SEVENTH-GRADE CLASS FROM ANOTHER
PUPIL AT OUR LADY QUEEN OF HEAVEN SCHOOL IN 1961.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; OUR LADY QUEEN OF HEAVEN SCHOOL ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ANTICLIMAX ; PARODY ; PARODY OF POEM: MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE ; RHYME: AABB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Language: Rhyme
If wisdom's ways you'd willing seek
Five things observe with care;
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how, and when and where.
Submitter comment:
Found in autograph book from 1880's
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Language ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; Speak ; VERSE ; When ; Where ; Whom ; WISDOM
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
PAUL REVERE'S DASH
TWAS' THE 18TH OF APRIL IN '75,
HARDLY A MAN IS YET ALIVE
WHO REMEMBERS THAT FAMOUS DAY AND YEAR
OF THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE.
UP THE ALLEY AND DOWN THE STREET,
A TWENTY-YARD DASH FOR THE TOILET SEAT.
Submitter comment:
SHE FIRST HEARD IT IN A SEVENTH-GRADE CLASS FROM ANOTHER PUPIL AT
OUR LADY QUEEN OF HEAVEN SCHOOL IN 1961.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): PARODY--POEM COMPARE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE ANTI-CLIMAX ; RHYME: AABB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 11-13-1968
"ZE SKUNK, ZE SKUNK"
I HUNT ZE BEAR; I HUNT ZE WOLF;
SOMETIMES I HUNT ZE RAT.
LAS' WEEK I TAKE MY AX
AN' HUNT ZE SKUNK POLECAT.
MY FRIEND JACQUES SAYS HE'S VER' GOOD FUR,
AN' SOMETIME GOOD TO EAT.
I TELL MY WIFE I GET FUR COAT
AN' SAME TIME GET SOME MEAT.
I WALK TWO, T'REE, FOUR MILE.
I FEEL WAN AWFUL SMELL.
I SAY DIS SKUNK HE'S UP AND DIE,
AN' FUR COAT GONE TO HELL.
BIMEBY I SEE ZE SKUNK,
CLOSE UP BY ONE BEEG TREE.
I SNEAK UP VERA CLOSE BEHIN',
AN' T'INK HE'S NO SEE ME.
BIMEBY I'M CLOSE UP BY ZE SKUNK.
I RAISE MY AX UP HIGH,
WHEN ... UP, KERPLUNK, DIS DAM', DAM' SKUNK
SHE'S T'ROW SOMET'ING IN MY EYE.
SACRE BLU! I T'INK I'M BLIN'.
GEE WHIZ! I CAN NO SEE!
I WALK ROUN' AN' ROUN' AN' ROUN'
AN' BUMP IN DAM' OL' TREE!
BIMEBY I DROP MY AX
AN' LIGHT OUT FOR DA SHACK.
I T'INK A MILLION SKUNKS
DEY CLIM' UPON MY BACK.
MY WIFE SHE MEET ME AT DA DOOR.
SHE SEEK ON ME DA DOG.
SHE SAY."YOU NO SLEEP HERE TONIGHT.
YOU GO SLEEP MIT DA HOG."
I TRY TO CLIM' IN HOG PEN.
GEE WHIZ! NOW WHAT YOU TINK?
DAT DAM' O' HOG NOT STAN' FOR DAT
ON 'COUNT OF AWFUL STINK.
NO MORE I'M HUNT ZE SKUNK POLECAT
TO GET HIS FUR OR MEAT.
FOR IF HIS BREATH HE SMELL SO BAD,
GEE WHIZ WHAT EEFF HE SPEET.
Submitter comment:
THIS POEM WAS USUALLY RECITED AROUND A FIRE ON
SATURDAY NIGHTS AT THE LOGGING CAMP.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAGINAW
Keyword(s): LOGGING POEMS
James Callow Keyword(s): FRENCH DIALECT ; SPIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 03-04-1990
From others we can hide some things
We've thought and said and done;
We cannot hide them from the lord
He known them, everyone.
Where learned: GEORGIA ; Alberton
Keyword(s): poem
James Callow Keyword(s): knows
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1959
Autograph Rhyme
Autograph Book Rhyme:
I pity the River/I pity the Brook/I pity the one /Who steals this book.
Submitter comment:
Submission is from informant's Junior High Autograph Book, dated 1929-1933
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [C760] has been crossed out. The word FlyLeaf is written enxt to it.
Submission card located in pile marked [?]
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; BOOK ; Golac, Josephine ; GLENSHAW ; 107 PARK LANE DR
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; BOOK ; FlyLeaf ; poem ; RHYME ; River ; Signature ; VERSE ; WATER
James Callow Keyword(s): FlyLeaf
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse |
Language: Rhyme
Roses Rhyme:
Roses are red, Violets are blue.
Sugar is sweet, And so are you.
Submitter comment:
This is a rhyme that is familiar to most everyone who has heard a "roses are red" rhyme...
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Keyword(s): Blue ; COLOR ; Language ; poem ; Red ; RHYME ; Roses ; Sugar ; Sweet ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
From Grade School Book:
2 Nice
2 Be
____
4 Gotten
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Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
From Grade School Book:
2 Nice
2 Be
____
4 Gotten
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Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
I wish you luck, I wish you joy, I wish you first a baby boy.
And when his hair begins to curl, I wish you then a baby girl.
And when her hair is straight and thin, I wish you next a set of twins.
And when they're crawling on the floor, for heanev's sake, don't have any more!
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Where learned: Tomlinson, Perry
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; BABY ; Boy ; Crawl ; Curl ; Floor ; Girl ; HAIR ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; Straight ; THIN ; TWINS ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Cynical Autograph Rhyme;
Roses are red, Violets are green.
You have a shape like a submarine.
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Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; COLOR ; Cynical ; FLOWERS ; poem ; Red ; RHYME ; Roses ; Signature ; Submarine ; VERSE ; Violets
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Autograph Rhyme / Pun:
Who greased the grapevine/
-Tarzan
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Where learned: Tomlinson, Perry
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; Grapevine ; Grease ; poem ; PUN ; Signature ; Tarzan ; VERSE ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Rhyme;
Kissing spreads germs, and germs are hated,
But kiss me baby, I'm vaccinated!
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Where learned: Tomlinson, Perry
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; Germ ; KISS ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; Vaccinated ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Rhyme:
When at this book you chance to look,
And have to turn it round,
Remember the girl who spoiled your book,
...by writing upside down...
[The last line is written upside down]
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; Upside-down ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Rhyme:
When you are married and think you are sweet,
Take off your shoes and smell your feet.
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; FEET ; Married ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; Sweet ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Rhyme:
When you are married and move down south,
Remember me and my big mouth.
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; Married ; Mouth ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; South ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
When you get married and your husband gets cross,
Pick up the rolling pin and say "I'm Boss!"
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; Boss ; HUSBAND ; Married ; poem ; RHYME ; Rolling Pin ; Signature ; VERSE ; Wife
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Verse
Album Rhyme:
Way back here
Out of sight
I sign my name
Just out of spite
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Verse
Album Rhyme:
Roses are red, Violets are blue
When it rains, I think of you.
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Blue ; COLOR ; poem ; Rain ; Red ; RHYME ; Roses ; Signature ; VERSE ; Violets
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Verse
Album Rhyme:
Roses are red, violets are blue,
Lend me $10.00, and then I'll love you.
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Where learned: St Charles, Rosalee
Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Blue ; COLOR ; FLOWERS ; LOVE ; MONEY ; poem ; Red ; RHYME ; Roses ; Signature ; VERSE ; Violets
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |