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Jump Rope Slang
"Front doors"--face the rope as it turns clockwise, run and jump into it.
"Back doors"--face the rope as it turns counter clockwise, run and jump into it.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Bob and Sue (any 2 children's names)
Sittin' in a tree
K-i-s-s-i-n-g.
First comes love
Then comes marriage.
Then comes Sue with a baby carriage.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Games
Chuck-farthing, May-pole dancing, marbles, hoop and hide, fishing, blindman's bluff, King am I, hop-skip-jump, I send a letter to my love, cricket, leap-frog, bird-nesting, and tag.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime |
Saying
You will never amount to anything, unless you turn over a new leaf.
Data entry tech comment:
Explanation: evils of wrong doings.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery |
Jump Rope Rhyme
Fudge, fudge
tell the judge
Mama wants a newborn baby
Wrap it up in tissue paper
send it down the elevator,
Boy, girl, triplets, twins,
(repeat until jumper misses--what she misses on is what she'll have)
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Bathing beauty
thinks she's cutie
All she wears is a yellow suitie
If you jump to 29 . . .
Submitter comment:
(rest forgotten)
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Blue bells, cockle shells
eevy, ivy over
Skip rope, who can tell
eevy, ivy, over . . .
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Children's Wake-Up Rhyme
Wake up, wake up, wake up
The sun is up
The dew is on the buttercup
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Submitter comment:
Informant sung this to brothers and sisters.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Saying
Oh Johnny Doodlebug,
Come up and I'll give you a bushel of corn!
Submitter comment:
We were told that if we find a cone-shaped pit under rock ledges and said these lines, that the insect would climb out and show itself.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Old Saying
You must not sing at the table, likely to bring misfortune to you: Sing before you eat, You'll cry before you sleep.
Sing at the table,
Sing in bed,
Bugger-man will get you
When you are dead!
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Superstition
See a pin, pick it up,
All day long, you have good luck;
See a pin, leave it lay
You'll have bad luck all day.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
A Belief
To make the butter come when churning say the chant:
Come butter come
Come butter come
Peter standing at the gate
Waiting for a butter cake
Come butter come.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Rock School
Object--to proceed up to the top of the steps
Participants--1 teacher--any number of players
The teacher places rock in hand and puts hand behind back, players attempt to guess which hand the rock is in. The player who guesses goes up the step, if he does not he stays where he is.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity |
Club Fist
A matching-up game called "Club Fist" is started by each player putting his fist on top of the previous player until each has a fist in the stack. Then "It" says to the player who has his fist on the top: "What you got there?" "Club fist." "Well, take it off or I'll knock it off." Each fist is removed until the last one, then ask questions. It: "What you got there?" Player: "Piece of cheese." "Where's my share?" "Cat got it." "Where's the cat?" "In the woods." "Where're the woods?" "Fire burned it." "Where's the fire?" "Water squenched it." "Where's the water?" "Ox drank it." "Where's the ox?" "Butcher killed it." "Where's the butcher?" "Rope hung him." "Where's the rope?" "Rat gnawed it." "Where's the rat?" "Cat caught him." "Where's the cat?" "Dead and buried behind the church door, and now the first one who shows his teeth get ten pinches and ten boxes."
Submitter comment:
Then "It" tries to make the other players laugh or speak.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics |
Cats-Cradle or Cratch Cradle
A continuous piece of twine or string is looped over the extended fingers of both hands. A second person then must remove the string without losing the loops, to create another different pattern or figure.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement |
Wish Belief
When a child's tooth is extracted if he puts it under his pillow and sleeps on it, makes a wish it will come to pass.
When the first star is seen, make a wish and say:
Star light, star bright,
First star I've seen tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Get the wish I wish tonight.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
The rabbit has a shiny nose
on that you may depend
because his little powder puff
is at the other end.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Had a little monkey
Took him to the country
Fed him on ginger bread.
Along came a choo choo
And knocked him cuckoo
And now my little monkey's dead.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Jump Rope Rhymes
Oliver Cromwell lost his shoe
At the battle of Waterloo
Left-Right
Left-Right
One, two
One, two
Nebuchadnezzar, the King of the Jews
Bought his wife a pair of shoes
When the shoes began to wear
Nebuchadnezzar began to swear.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Come lasses and lads
Take care of your dads--
Make way for the Maypole high . . .
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |