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ROPE-JUMPING RHYME
-------, ------ (YOUR OWN NAME USED)
DRESSED IN LACE
WENT UPSTAIRS TO POWDER HER FACE.
HOW MANY PUFFS DID SHE USE?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,...
Submitter comment: SHE LEARNED IT FROM THE OLDER GIRLS ON THE EAST SIDE OF DETROIT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 9175 YORKSHIRE ; 48224
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-27-1967
EASTER-EGG FIGHTS
ON EASTER, IT IS CUSTOMARY TO HAVE EASTER-EGG FIGHTS TO SEE WHO
HAS THE "CHAMPION" EGG. ONE PERSON HOLDS AN EGG WHILE ANOTHER TRIES
TO CRACK IT BY STRIKING THE EGG WITH ANOTHER EGG. THE WEAKER
EGG BREAKS, THUS MAKING THE STRONGER EGG THE WINNER.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 10859 BALFOUR ; 48224
Keyword(s): GAME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Easter eggs CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Spring Planting Easter Sunday |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
BELIEF
IF YOU LIGHT THREE CIGARETTES OFF ONE MATCH, YOU ARE GONNA DIE.
Submitter comment:
OTHER VERSIONS SAY IT IS JUST BAD LUCK.
INFORMANTS GRANDFATHER SAID HE LEARNED THIS IN WORLD WAR 2,
BECAUSE BY LIGHTING A MATCH TOO LONG, THE ENEMY
WOULD SPOT AND KILL YOU.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 14104 RUTLAND ; 48224
| Subject headings: | Observation |
Date learned: 03-00-1971
WISH
WHEN THE CLASP OF A PENDANT HAS SLID
AROUND THE NECK TO WHERE THE PENDANT HANGS IN FRONT
THE PERSON WEARING THE PENDANT CAN MAKE A WISH,
THEN HAVE SOMEONE ELSE RETURN THE CLASP TO THE
BACK OF THE NECK, LEST THAT PERSON
LOSE HER WISH.
Submitter comment:
TOLD TO ME BY A GIRL NAMED PEGGY HAISENLEDER
WHO WORKED WITH ME AT EASTLAND SHOPPING CENTER SUMMER '71
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 3487 Buckingham ; 48224
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 10-30-1971
WISH
IF TWO PEOPLE SAY THE SAME THING AT THE
SAME TIME THEY SHOULD HOOK LITTLE FINGERS
AND PROCEED WITH THE FOLLOWING CONVERSATION:
FIRST SPEAKER: NEEDLES.
SECOND SPEAKER: PINS
1ST SPEAKER: BREAD.
2ND SPEAKER: BUTTER.
1ST SPEAKER: TOAST.
2ND SPEAKER: JAM.
1ST SPEAKER: WHAT GOES UP THE CHIMNEY?
2ND SPEAKER: SMOKE.
BOTH SPEAKERS: I HOPE THIS WILL NEVER BE BROKEN.
BOTH PEOPLE THEN MAKE A WISH, BUT REMAIN SILENT.
THE FIRST ONE TO SPEAK THEN LOSES HIS WISH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 3487 Buckingham ; 48224
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 10-30-1971
SIGNATURE
YOURS TILL NIAGRA FALLS,
Submitter comment:
THIS SIGNATURE WAS USED BY SUE MCANINCH TO THE VERSE IN KATHY'S
AUTOGRAPH BOOK (SEE C760).
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 3487 Buckingham ; 48224
Keyword(s): FRIENDSHIP ; LOCATION ; PUN
James Callow Keyword(s): NIAGARA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Humorous allusion to love |
Date learned: 11-06-1971
Song
There was an old man named Michael Finnegan.
He grew fat and then grew thinnegan.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 10859 BALFOUR ; 48224
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ballad Epic |