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JUMP-ROPE RHYME
LINCOLN, LINCOLN,
I BEEN THINKIN'
WHAT ON EARTH HAVE
YOU BEEN DRINKIN'
SMELLS LIKE WINE,
TASTES LIKE WINE,
OH! MY GOSH
ITS TURPENTINE!
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1967
Jump Rope Song
DICK AND JANE SITTIN' IN A TREE
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
FIRST COMES LOVE, THEN COMES MARRIAGE
THEN COMES JANE WITH A BABY CARRIAGE.
HOW MANY CHILDREN DID SHE RECEIVE?
ONE, TWO, THREE . . .
PLAYERS SUBSTITUTE THEIR OWN NAMES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS
Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 03-10-1970
QUESTION. HOW DO YOU PUT FOUR ELEPHANTS IN A VOLKSWAGON?
ANSWER. TWO IN THE FRONT AND TWO IN THE BACK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
James Callow Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; SIZE HUMOR
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 10-17-1972
QUESTION. WHY DIDN'T TARZAN SEE THE ELEPHANTS COMING?
ANSWER. BECAUSE THEY WERE WEARING SUNGLASSES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
James Callow Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; HUMOR
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 10-17-1972
TOAST
THROUGH THE TEETH AND OVER THE GUMS,
LOOKOUT STOMACH, HERE IT COMES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
James Callow Keyword(s): APOSTROPHE ; MOCK GRACE BEFORE EATING
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 10-17-1972
A SIGNAL USED AT WORK IS THE CRACKING OF THE WRISTS IN OPPOSITE
DIRECTIONS WITH AN IMAGINARY STICK. THIS IS USED TO INDICATE THERE
IS SOME TYPE OF BREAKDOWN SOMEWHERE ON THE STEEL MILL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 10-17-1972
A SIGNAL USED AT WORK IS THE RUBBING OF THE STOMACH WITH THE HAND.
THAT SIGNIFIES THAT EVERYTHING IS GOING ALL RIGHT ON THE STEEL MILL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 10-17-1972
CLENCHED FISTS WITH THUMBS EXTENDED MOVING FROM THE CENTER OF THE
BODY OUTWARD, MEANS TO REMOVE THE CHECKS FROM THE WHEELS OF THE
AIRCRAFT. IT ITSELF IS USED BT TAXI SIGNALERS AND PLANE HANDLERS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 10-17-1972
A SIGNAL USED AT WORK IS ROTATING THE INDEX FINGER IN A CIRCLE
POINTED UPWARD. THIS IS USED TO START UP THE MILLS AND TO BEGIN
ROLLING STEEL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 10-17-1972
IT IS BELIEVED BY SOME OLDER PEOPLE THAT WHEN THEIR ARTHRITIS ACTS
UP, IT IS A FORESHADOWING OF INCLEMENT WEATHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Weather sign or control BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Human condition and activities |
Date learned: 10-17-1972
AN ITALIAN TRADITION IS TO SAY A PARTING WORD TO THE DECEASED
INDIVIDUAL AT A FUNERAL AND THEN SLAP THE CASKET AS A SIGN OF
FAREWELL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 10-17-1972
A POLISH TRADITION AT EASTER IN MY FAMILY IS TO LEAVE A CHAIR VACANT
AT THE TABLE FOR CHRIST TO BE PRESENT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Palm Sunday CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Easter Season BELIEF -- Religious hero BELIEF -- Number Emptiness, nothingness, zero |
Date learned: 10-17-1972
THE REASON BELL BOTTOM PANTS WERE USED IN THE NAVY WAS THEY COULD
ROLL THEM UP EASIER WHEN SAILORS HAD TO SWAB THE DECKS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
James Callow Keyword(s): ETYMOLOGY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F535 CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Working ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Dress Lower body and legs |
Date learned: 10-17-1972
MILITARY TRADITION
THE FLAP ON THE BACK OF A NAVAL DRESS UNIFORM IS TRADITION STEMMING
FROM THE DAYS OF JOHN PAUL JONES WHEN THEIR HAIR WAS SHOULDER LENGTH.
THE FLAP WOULD CATCH THE GREASE FROM THEIR HAIR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F535 ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Dress Overall body coverUpper body and arms |
Date learned: 10-17-1972
AT POLISH FUNERALS, AFTER THE SERVICES, EVERYONE GETS TOGETHER TO EAT
AND DRINK TO CELEBRATE THE DECEASED GOING TO HEAVEN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 10-17-1972
THE MOST SACRED TRADITION THE ITALIANS HAVE IS THE LAW OF SILENCE.
WHAT SOMEONE DOES NOT KNOW WILL NOT HURT THEM IS THEIR EXPLANATION.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Common law |
Date learned: 10-17-1972
NAMING A RIVER
THE RIVRE ROUGE WAS NAMED BY THE FRENCH EXPLORER LASALLE
IN THE 17TH CENTURY. AS HE WAS PASSING THROUGH THE AREA
LASALLE NOTICED THE NUMBER OF RED BERRY BUSHES ALONG THE
RIVER'S EDGE. THE SUNS RAYS PASSED THROUGH THE BUSHES AND
WATER TO HAVE A REDDISH OR ROUGE GLOW, THUS THE RIVER RECEIVED
ITS NAME.
Submitter comment:
MR. BARRY PICKED THIS UP DURING HIS MANY YEARS AS A ROUGE PLANT
WITH FORD MOTOR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
James Callow Keyword(s): COLOR
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Running water Small current. Brook, spring.... BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Explanation of a name |
NAMING A RIVER
THE RIVRE ROUGE WHICH RUNS THROUGH DEARBORN GOT ITS NAME
FROM THE FRENCH EXPLORER LASALLE. HE NOTICED THAT THE RIVER
WAS A DEFINITE RED IN SOME PARTS, INQUIRING INTO THE MATTER,
HE FOUND OUT THAT THIS WAS BLOOD WHICH WAS COMING FROM UPSTREAM
AREAS WHERE THE INDIANS AND THE FRENCH WERE FIGHTING. THUS
HE NAMED THE DISCOVERY RIVRE ROUGE.
Submitter comment:
MR. BARRYS SOURCES ARE TRADITIONAL AND OCCUR
IN CONJUNCTION WITH HIS JOB AS A GUIDE THROUGH THE FORD
ROUGE PLANT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
James Callow Keyword(s): COLOR ; HOSTILITY
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Running water Small current. Brook, spring.... BELIEF -- Explanation of a name |
Date learned: SUMMER 1963
NAMING A RIVER
THE RIVRE ROUGE RUNNING THROUGH DEARBORN WAS NAMED BY
THE FRENCH EXPLORER LASALLE, BACK IN THE 1TH CENTURY. WHILE TRAVELING
SOUTH ON THE DETROIT RIVER, LASALLE SAW A TRIBUTARY AND
PROCEEDED TO FOLLOW IT INLAND. NOTICING THAT IT HAD A
REDDISH COLOR, HE NAMED IT 'LE RIVRE ROUGE'. THE WATER
APPEARED RED BECAUSE OF THE RED RIVER CLAY BASE.
Submitter comment:
MR. BARRY IS A FORD MOTOR GUIDE, AND I BELIEVE HE
LEANED THIS, (OR INVENTED IT) DURING HIS YEARS AS A
TOURIST GUIDE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
James Callow Keyword(s): COLOR
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Running water Small current. Brook, spring.... BELIEF -- Explanation of a name |
Date learned: SUMMER 1963
TOURIST NAMING
THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY RUN VARIOUS TOURS THROUGH ITS ROUGE
PLANT, MR. BARRY IS THE SENIOR GUIDE ON THE STAF.
OF COURSE PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD HAVE TAKEN THE FORD TOUR.
THE GUIDE STAFF TENDS TO GIVE THE VARIOUS GROUPS PET NAMES.
ONCE MR. BARRY HAD A FARM PARTY FROM INDIANA, AND THEIR NAME
WAS HERMAN, WELL THE NAME STUCK, AND WHENEVER ANYONE WITH A
FARM OR BUMPKIN APPEARANCE TAKES A TOUR, THE GUIDES REFER TO
THEM AS HERMANS.
Submitter comment:
THUS THE INFORMANT INVENTED THE TERM AND IT HAS BECOME A
TRADITIONAL WORD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Explanation of a name SPEECH -- Trade & commerce SPEECH -- FamilyGroup |