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Little Bumble Bee
I caught a little baby bumble bee -- won't my mommy be surprised at me -- I caught a little baby bumble bee -- Buzzy Wuzzy -- Buzzy Wuzzy -- OUCH! he stung me. I'm squashing up a baby bumble bee -- won't my mommy be surprised at me -- I'm squashing up a baby bumble bee -- YUCK! He got blood on me!
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; JOHNSTOWN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Magic Mirror
Romper, Bomper, Stomper, Boo
Tell me, tell me, tell me true
Did my friends have fun at play
Magic mirror tell me today.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; JOHNSTOWN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Here We Are
Here we are, all together as we sing our song, joyfully.
Here we are, joined together as we pray we'll always be.
(Learned at St. Theresa Grade School. It is often sung at Bible School gatherings, at Young Christian Students meetings, etc.)
Data entry tech comment:
Informants and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: informant's home ; St. Theresa Grade School
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Religious |
Tu B'Shvat Is Here (Song of Jewish Arbor Day)
The almond tree is growing
A golden sun is glowing
The birds sing out in joyous glee
From every roof and every tree
Let's make the land a garden
With water from the Jordan
And our land will flow once more
With milk and honey as of yore
Tu B'Shvat is here
The Jewish Arbor Day
Hail the trees' New Year
Happy Holiday
Submitter comment:
Origin: Learned it in Sunday School when she was younger.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; RESTAURANT ; GOLDEN LION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Song |
Pink Pajamas
I wear my pink pajamas in the summer when it's hot.
I wear my pink pajamas in the winiter when it's not.
And sometimes in the springtime and sometimes in the fall
I slip between the sheets with nothing on at all.
Chorus
Glory, Glory what's it to you
Glory, Glory what's it to you
Glory, Glory what's it to you
If I slip between the sheets with nothing on at all.
Submitter comment:
Origin: Song from Camp Tamarack at which informant was a counselor.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; RESTAURANT ; GOLDEN LION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Song |
Sauerwood Mountain
Rooster's crowin' on Sauerwood Mountain
Hi dee diddle dum diddle dum day
So many pretty girl you can't count them
Hi dee diddle dum diddle dum day.
Old man, old man, I want your daughter
Hi dee diddle dum diddle dum day
To bake my break and carry my water
Hi dee diddle dum diddle dum day.
Submitter comment:
Sung in Hollister, Ohio.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 19792 STOUT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Song |
Fall Song
Come little leaves, said the wind one day
Come over the meadows with me and play;
Put on your dresses of red and gold
Summer is gone and the days grow cold.
Soon as the leaves heard the wind's wild call
Down they came fluttering -- one and all;
Over the bright fields they danced and flew
Singing the sad little song they knew.
Submitter comment:
Sung as a child in Gloucester, Ohio.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 19792 STOUT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Song |
Song
Goin' down to Cripple Creek
On my way
I'll get to Cripple Creek
One fine day.
(But we didn't dance to it. We just sung it.)
Submitter comment:
happened in Gloucester, Ohio
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 19792 STOUT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Song |
A beer brewery in Houston, Texas, went out of business because of rats. At night, rats would walk along the rims of vats and taste the beer. They would become drunk and fall in. Unknowingly, the workers would bottle the beer for sale and it would not be uncommon to pull a rat out of one's beer can.
Submitter comment:
Informant--my uncle--claims that this story is true but . . .
Where learned: TEXAS ; HOUSTON
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Animal PROSE NARRATIVE -- B447 |
A game that I (and a lot of other children) played revolved around trying to avoid stepping on a crack when walking on the sidewalk. This rhyme was recited -- "Step on a crack, Break your mother's back."
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Informant probably first learned this in Houston, Texas.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; TEXAS ; NASHVILLE ; HOUSTON
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C5 BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
As a child, my friends and I would play a game to decide who we would marry. It involved counting all the buttons on our own clothing, one time, while reciting this rhyme:
"Rich man,
Poor man,
Beggar man,
Thief,
Doctor,
Lawyer,
Indian chief."
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Informant first learned this as a child, probably in Houston, Texas.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; TEXAS ; NASHVILLE ; HOUSTON
| Subject headings: | Observation Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse BELIEF -- Marriage |
In front of Baker Hall (a boy's dorm) at Austin College in Sherman, Texas, there is a marker with the name John Walker Vinson engraved upon it. Legend has it that Vinson was a member of a national fraternity at Austin College in the early 1900s. Unfortunately, he was shot and killed during a brawl with another national fraternity. For that reason, there are no national fraternities (with the exception of Alpha Phi Omega--a service fraternity) on that campus.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Informant probably first learned this in Houston, Texas.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; TEXAS ; NASHVILLE ; HOUSTON
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Legend BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Jump Rope Rhyme
I'm enrolled in College Hill School,
S-C-H-O-O-L spells school for me,
Question mark, period, comma, out.
On out, the jump-roper jumps out and starts the grades by running in, jumping once, and running out (for first grade) on up to junior high. When reaching junior high and high school (in the game), the rhyme is repeated substituting the names of the junior high and high schools. However, for grades nine through twelve, the jumper has to run in backwards (the motion of the rope is reversed by the turners).
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Informant probably first learned this in Houston, Texas.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; TEXAS ; NASHVILLE ; HOUSTON
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Rope-Jumping Rhyme
Cinderella -- dressed in yellow,
Went upstairs to kiss her fellow,
Kissed a snake -- By mistake,
How many doctors did it take?
One . . . two . . . three . . . four . . . five . . .
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Informant probably first learned this in Houston, Texas.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; TEXAS ; NASHVILLE ; HOUSTON
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C750- |
At Austin College in Sherman, Texas, when someone is accepted into medical school they are thrown (fully-clothed) into one of the fountains on campus.
Submitter comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Informant probably first learned this in Sherman, Texas.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; TEXAS ; NASHVILLE ; HOUSTON ; Austin College
James Callow Keyword(s): Initiation
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Initiation rite Hazing |
When I was in junior high, there was a "belief" that was followed religiously and carelessness elicited much ridicule: one did not wear green on Thursday because that meant he/she was queer. Red clothing on Friday signified that a girl was pregnant.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Informant probably first learned this in Houston, Texas.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; TEXAS ; NASHVILLE ; HOUSTON
Keyword(s): COLOR
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Typical Elements of a Festive Pattern BELIEF -- P5 |
If your ear itches, someone is talking about you.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; TEXAS ; NASHVILLE ; HOUSTON
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Graffiti
God didn't really create the world in seven days. He fooled around for six days and pulled an all-nighter.
Submitter comment:
Someone wrote this in the library stacks.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: Library stacks
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
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Graffiti
Can't interrupt a Dick
In the middle of a screw
So vote for Nixon
In '72
Submitter comment:
Found in stall of 1st floor john, engineering building, University of Detroit.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; ENGINEERING BUILDING ; restroom stall
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
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Bathroom Wall Rime of Mockery
People who write on shithouse walls,
Roll their shit in little balls,
People who read these words of wit,
Eat those little balls of shit!
Submitter comment:
Read in Michigan State University bathroom.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY ; RESTROOM WALL ; EAST LANSING
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |