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Graffiti

You are holding the future in your hands.

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

Wallace is Rosemary's baby.

Data entry tech comment:

Informant is referring to 1968 presidential candidate George Wallace.

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

Barbeque Lyndon Johnson

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

I hate graffiti!

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

Terminate the hostilities or I'll kill you.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

This door will be out in paperback soon.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

God didn't create the world in seven days--he goofed off for six days and then pulled an all-nighter. (Typical archie!)

 

Submitter comment:

Gathered from desks in the University of Detroit library.
 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT LIBRARY ; informant's dorm room

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Graffiti

Bill Smill, can go to hill.

 

Submitter comment:

Found on mattress board in the dorm at U of Detroit North Quadrangle 103.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; DORM ROOM ; mattress board

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture

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Belief

WHEN IT IS RAINING ANGELS LEFT SHOWER ON OR
ANGELS ARE BOWLING OR ANGELS MOVING FURNITURE. (THUNDER)

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; 201 EAST QUAD

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Angel
BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew
BELIEF -- Weather sign or control P890.7

Date learned: 02-00-1971

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VEGETABLES BELIEF

EAT VEGETABLES AND YOU WILL SLEEP LESS BUT WILL FEEL BETTER.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; E313

Keyword(s): BELIEF ; Consume ; CUSTOM ; Eat ; Old Wives Tale ; SLEEP ; SUPERSTITION ; VEGETABLE

James Callow Keyword(s): PLANT

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Plant

Date learned: 11-02-1971

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Jump-Rope Rhymes

Ice cream soda, ginger ale pop,
tell me the initial of your sweet heart.
(Start to count.)

 

Submitter comment:

This is said when children are playing jump rope. Children count until they miss.

 

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; East 204

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP

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

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Jump Counting

1-2-3-4-5
I caught a hare alive.
6-7-8-9-10
I let him go again.


 

Submitter comment:

Informant said that it was an old jumping rhyme that she used to jump to.

 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; University of Detroit Chorus office

Keyword(s): PLAIN JUMP

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

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Jump Rope Rhyme

I like coffee
I like tea
I like boys and boys like me
Yes, No, Maybe so.


 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; HOLDEN HALL ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP

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

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Jump Rope Song

Ice cream soda with a cherry on top,
Tell me the initials of my sweetheart.

(Player jumps out on initials of her sweetheart.)


 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): PLAIN JUMP

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

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Rope Jumping Rime

I was born in a frying pan
Just to see how old I am
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, . . .
(you miss at your particular age)

 

Submitter comment:

Informant learned this from the neighborhood children in Alaska.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; FOLEY HALL

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP

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

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Jump rope song

Ice cream, soda, ginger ale, pop

Tell me the intials of your sweetheart.

(Then stop at the initials as go throught the alphabet)

Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE ; Jump ; Plain

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

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Fudge, Fudge

Fudge, fudge, tell the judge,

Mommy's havin' a new-born baby;

Is it a gril, is it a boy?

No, it's just a plain old baby.

Wrap it up intissue paper,

Send it up the elevator,

First floor- stop.

Second floor-stop.

Third floor-stop.

etc.

Submitter comment:

Ann's version has only hte first four line.

Where learned: Learned at University of Detroit

Keyword(s): Jump ; Plain

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

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Jump Rope Song

House for rent, inquire within.

When I move out let (name) move in.

Data entry tech comment:

Collector does not state where the informant lives.
 

Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT

Keyword(s): Call ; RHYME

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

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Jump-rope chant #2

This chant is used to keep the rope in rhym, but it can also be used as a put-down technique by substituting a boy whom the girl dislikes--

"Down in the valley where the green grass grows, ther sat (--),

sweet as a rose.  She waited for a day and she waieted  for a week,

and along came(--) and kissed her on the cheek."

Where learned: Told at University of Detroit

Keyword(s): Jump ; Plain

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

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Acca, Bucca

Aka bakka, soda cracker

Akka bakka soda cracker

Aka bakka boo

If your fater chews tobacco

He's a regular jew

Out goes the cat

Out goes the rat

Out goes you

Where learned: Told at University of Detroit Student Union

Keyword(s): Jump ; Jump ; Plain ; Seed

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

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