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VERSE AUTOGRAPH MATERIAL (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; ROSES ARE RED, AND OTHER SUCH ASSOCIATIONS (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
ROSES ARE RED,/ VIOLETS ARE BLUE/ WHEN I TAKE A SHOWER/ I THINK
OF YOU. DRIP, DRIP, DRIP SUSAN ADAMS
Where learned: AUTOGRAPH BOOK ; HOLY NAME GRADE SCHOOL
Keyword(s): INSULT SLANG ; PARODY ; QUATRAIN FUNCTION ; RHYME: ABCBD
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Roses are red and other such associations |
Date learned: 06-00-1961
VERSE AUTOGRAPH MATERIAL (COLLECTOR'S TITLE)
ROSES ARE RED,/ VIOLETS ARE BLUE/ WHEN I TAKE A SHOWER/ I THINK
OF YOU. DRIP, DRIP, DRIP SUSAN ADAMS
Where learned: AUTOGRAPH BOOK ; HOLY NAME GRADE SCHOOL
Keyword(s): INSULT SLANG ; PARODY ; QUATRAIN FUNCTION ; RHYME: ABCBD
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Roses are red and other such associations |
Jump-rope Rhyme
DOWN IN THE VALLEY WHERE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS
THERE SAT (SAY NAME OF JUMPER) SWEET AS A ROSE
ALONG CAME (GUY TO TEASE) AND KISSED HER ON THE NOSE
HOW MANY KISSES DID SHE RECEIVE?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 11-12-1968
ROMAN BOYS TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO JUMPED ON FRIENDS'
BACKS AND SHOUTED, BUCCA, BUCCA, QUOT SUNT HIC?--'BUCCA,
BUCCA, HOW MANY ARE HERE?' IF THE WOBBLING 'MOUNTS'
COULD GUESS THE NUMBER OF FINGERS THEIR 'RIDERS' HELD UP,
IT WOULD BE THEIR TURN TO JUMP. TODAY, BOYS IN ENGLAND
SHOUT, "BUCK, BUCK, HOW MANY HORNS DO I HOLD UP?" THE
RULES ARE THE SAME.
Where learned: PLAY WORLD SPANS TIME AND SPACE ; NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SCHOOL BULLETIN ; VOLUME 42 ; NUMBER 15
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C535 Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Guessing |
PROSE AUTOGRAPH MATERIAL (COLLECTOR'S TITLE)
WHEN YOU GET MARRIED AND LIVE UP TOWN,/ REMEMBER THE GIRL WHO WROTE
UPSIDE DOWN PEGGY SEILER
Submitter comment: WRITTEN UPSIDE DOWN ON PAGE.
Data entry tech comment: LINE DIVISIONS SUPPLIED BY KEYPUNCHER
Where learned: SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ; COLLECTED IN SEVENTH GRADE
Keyword(s): RHYME: AA ; TYPOGRAPHICAL VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Reading or writing backwards, upside down |
Date learned: 00-00-1959
PROSE AUTOGRAPH MATERIAL (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; MATRIMONY (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
WHEN YOU GET MARRIED AND LIVE UP TOWN,/ REMEMBER THE GIRL WHO WROTE
UPSIDE DOWN PEGGY SEILER
Submitter comment: WRITTEN UPSIDE DOWN ON PAGE.
Data entry tech comment: LINE DIVISIONS SUPPLIED BY KEYPUNCHER
Where learned: SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ; COLLECTED IN SEVENTH GRADE
Keyword(s): RHYME: AA ; TYPOGRAPHICAL VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Reading or writing backwards, upside down |
Date learned: 00-00-1959
GHOST SUPERSTITION
IF YOU SEE A GHOST IN YOUR MIRROR AT NIGHT, GET UP AND LIGHT A
CANDLE AND WALK NINE TIMES AROUND THE ROOM. THE GHOST WILL
DISAPPEAR.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HAMTRAMCK ; Chociemski, Stanley ; St. Hyacinth School
Keyword(s): GHOST ; Haunt ; NUMBER ; SUPERSTITION ; Ward
| Subject headings: | 686 Ninths / Nine BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 02-29-1972
Mr. Dunderback
There was an old man from Germany
His name was Dunderback
He opened up a butcher-shop
To sell sauerkraut and fat.
One day this Mr. Dunderback
Invented a machine
For grinding all the cats and dogs
To sausage meat so fine.
Chorus: O-oh, Mr. Dunderback, ain't you awful mean?
Ain't you awful sorry you invented that machine?
For the long-tailed rats and the pussycats
No longer can be seen,
They've all been ground to sausgage-meat
In Dunderback's machine.
One day a little boy came, a-walking in the shop,
He ordered him a head of cheese,
And walked around the room,
And while he was a'waitin',
He whistled a merry tune,
And all the cats and the long-tailed rats,
Came skippin' around the room.
Chorus
One day something the matter was,
The machine, it wouldn't go.
So, Dunderback, He climbed inside
To see what made it so.
Now, Mrs. Dunderback had been walking in her sleep,
She gave the machine an awful crank,
And Dunderback was meat!
Chorus
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: Gradeschool
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ballad Epic |
Jump Rope Verse
Down in the valley where the green grass grows
There sits _______ sweet as a rose
Along came _______ and kissed her on the cheek
How many kisses did she get
One,
Two,
Three,
etc.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; McCann Elementary School ; first grade girls
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime |
Jump Rope Verse
Cinderella, dressed in yella
Went to town to see her fella
How many petticoats did she wear?
One
Two
Three
Four
etc.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; McCann Elementary School ; first grade girls
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime |
Song
Found a peanut.
Found a peanut.
Found a peanut just now.
I just now found a peanut.
Found a peanut just now.
Cracked it open.
Cracked it open.
Cracked it open just now.
I just now cracked it open.
Cracked it open just now.
Found it rotten.
Found it rotten.
Found it rotten just now.
I just now found it rotten.
Found it rotten just now.
Ate it anyway,
Ate it anyway.
Ate it anyway just now.
I just now ate it anyway.
Ate it anyway just now.
Got sick.
Got sick.
Got sick just now.
I just now got sick.
Got sick just now.
Called the doctor.
Called the doctor.
Called the doctor jut now.
I just now called the doctor.
Called the doctor just now.
Said I wouldn't die.
Said I wouldn't die.
Said I wouldn't die just now.
He just now said I wouldn't die.
Said I wouldn't die just now.
Died anyway.
Died anyway.
Died anyway just now.
I just now died anyway.
Died anyway just now.
Went to heaven.
Went to heaven.
Went to heaven just now.
I just now went to heaven.
Went to heaven just now.
Play the harp.
Play the harp.
Play the harp just now.
I just now play the harp.
Play the harp just now.
Broke a string.
Broke a string.
Broke a string just now.
I just now broke a string.
Broke a string just now.
Cut my finger.
Cut my finger.
Cut my finger just now.
I just now cut my finger.
Cut my finger just now.
Got a band-aid.
Got a band-aid.
Got a band-aid just now.
I just now got a band-aid.
Got a band-aid just now.
Kicked an angel.
Kicked an angel.
Kicked an angel just now.
I just now kicked an angel.
Kicked an angel just now.
Got a transfer.
Got a transfer.
Got a transfer just now.
I just now got a transfer.
Got a transfer just now.
Shovel coal.
Shovel coal.
Shovel coal just now.
I just now shovel coal.
Shovel coal just now.
Turned to ashes.
Turned to ashes.
Turned to ashes just now.
I just now turned to ashes.
Turned to ashes just now.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK ; Mark Twain Play School
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Glory, Glory
Glory, glory hallelujah
Teacher hit me with a ruler
Stood behind the door with a leaded forty-four.
Teacher doesn't teach here anymore.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GRADE SCHOOL ; SAGINAW
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Song
Nina noshe naddee,
Nina noshe naddee,
Mushnina qua,
Musnina qua,
Oo-ee-oo.
Lullaby, my baby,
Lullaby, my baby,
Hushaby
Hushaby
Hm
Where learned: SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Cradle song Lullaby |
An Irish Lullaby
Sleep, o babe, for the red bee hums,
The silent twilight's fall,
Eval from the grey rock comes
To wrap the world inthrall.
A lyan van o, my child, my joy,
My love and heart's desire,
The crickets sing you lullaby
Beside the dying fire.
Dusk is drawn and the green man's thorn
Is wreathed in rings of fog.
Sheevra sails his boat 'til morn
Upon the starry bog.
A lyan van o, the pal'y moon
Has wrapped her cusp in dew
And weeps to hear the sad sleep tune
I sing, oh, love, to you.
Submitter comment:
An authentic Irish song as I remember we sang it each year on St. Patrick's Day at the girls' boarding school I went to.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: GIRLS BOARDING SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Cradle song Lullaby |
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 |
Little Maggie
Oh, yonder stands Little Maggie,
With a dram glass in her hand.
She's drinking away her troubles Lord,
And courting another man.
Pretty flowers were made for blooming,
Pretty stars were made to shine.
Pretty girls were made for boys to love,
Surely Maggie was made for mine.
Oh, how can I ever stand it,
To see them two blue eyes.
They shine just like diamonds Lord,
Like the diamonds in the sky.
Sometimes I have a nickel Lord,
Sometimes I have a dime.
Sometimes I have ten dollars,
Just to pay Little Maggie's fine.
Oh, they marched me down to the station,
With my suitcase in my hand.
I'm going away for to leave you my love,
I'm going to a far distant land.
Submitter comment:
Origin: Grandmother, Mrs. Liza Brown, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Bagley School ; Bagley School Playground
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Song |
Song
I am a little hula girl.
As pretty as any little hula girl,
And all the little hula girls -- hula, hula, hula
LOVE spells love
KISS spells kiss
Elephants in the pie.
Grovey one.
Kiss, kiss, kiss you.
I heard someone walking.
I heard someone talking.
Pretty little girl with strawberry
Kiss, kiss, kiss.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; KEATING SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Song |
Hey Ricky!
Hey Ricky!
Your woman's on the telephone.
If it ain't my baby tell her I ain't home.
I say a um ma, um ma, um ma ma.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; KEATING SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Song |
Song
Dun ta dun ta dun
Oh Mary Lou and Suzie Q
Your feet, your feet
They may stink, stink, stink
Oh Mary Lou and Suzie Q.
Your eyes, your eyes may shine
But not as bright as your behind
Oh Mary Lou and Suzie Q.
Your ears, your ears
Look like some dog gone spears
Your lips, your lips
Look like potato chips
Your nose, your nose
Looks like a water hose.
Oh Mary Lou and Suzie Q
Your head, your head
Looks like a Walker red. (wine)
What makes you frisky?
They call it whiskey.
What makes you fool?
They call it black bull. (whiskey)
What makes you high?
Let's take some jive.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; KEATING SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Song |
Little Miss Bright
There was a young girl named Miss Bright,
Who could travel much faster than light.
She departed one day,
In an Einsteinian way,
And came back on the previous night.
Submitter comment:
This verse is one remembered from high school days (1968) in a physics class. Its meaning lies in Einstein's theory of relativity and the fact that if one goes faster than velocity of light, one will go back in time.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HIGH SCHOOL ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |