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CHOOSING IT
EACH PLAYER PUTS HIS FOOT INTO A CIRCLE. THE CALLER
POINTS TO ONE FOOT PER WORD:
UM BUM BEENA,
SHUCK-A-LUCK-A-TEENA,
TICK-A-TACK-A-ILLY BILLY BUM
Submitter comment:
WHOEVERS' FOOT HE IS POINTING AT ON THE LAST WORD,
THAT PERSON IS OUT AND CANNOT BE "IT." THE CALLER
CONTINUES UNTIL THERE IS ONLY ONE PERSON LEFT. THAT
PERSON IS "IT."
Where learned: CHILDHOOD PLAYMATES
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1955
IF I SPILT SALT, I SHOULD TOSS A PINCH OVER MY LEFT
SHOULDER TO WARD OFF MISFORTUNE.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; BLACK BOY: A RECORD OF CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH ; SIGNET BOOK ; NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY ; PAGE 82
James Callow Keyword(s): SPILLED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 00-00-1945
IF YOU GO BY AN EMPTY ROCKING CHAIR AND PUSH ON ONE ARM
AND MAKE IT ROCK, IT MEANS THAT SOMEONE IN YOUR FAMILY
IS GOING TO DIE.
Where learned: CHILDHOOD
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Number Emptiness, nothingness, zero |
Date learned: 00001950S
IF YOUR EAR BUZZES OR RINGS, SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT
YOU AT THAT MOMENT.
Where learned: CHILDHOOD
| Subject headings: | 842 Ringing ears / buzzing / hot, burning Observation |
Date learned: 00-00-1955
SLEEP SAYING
DEAD TO THE WORLD.
Where learned: CHILDHOOD
Keyword(s): COSMOS
James Callow Keyword(s): ASLEEP
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
DOCTORS' PHILOSOPHY
DOCTORS ALWAYS BURY THEIR MISTAKES.
Where learned: CHILDHOOD
James Callow Keyword(s): INCOMPETENCY ; IRONY
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Blason Populaire |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
DOOR LOCKS ON INSIDE
THE DOOR LOCKS FROM THE INSIDE.
Where learned: CHILDHOOD
James Callow Keyword(s): PRECAUTION?
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PEAS PORRIDGE HOT, PEAS PORRIDGE COLD,
PEAS PORRIDGE IN THE POT, NINE DAYS OLD.
SOME LIKE IT HOT, SOME LIKE IT COLD.
SOME LIKE IT IN THE POT, NINE DAYS OLD.
SECOND VERSE--SUBSTITUTE "ONE DAY OLD" FOR "NINE DAYS OLD"
Where learned: CHILDHOOD ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse C730.522 |
Date learned: 00-00-1958
OMEN (COLLECTOR'S TITLE)
BAD LUCK COMES IN THREES
Where learned: CHILDHOOD COLLECTED
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
GESTURE
A GESTURE OF PUSHING THE FRONT TEETH WITH THE THUMB WHEN YOUR TONGUE
GETS TIED.
Where learned: CHILDHOOD
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
CHILDREN'S VERSE
I SCREAM,/ YOU SCREAM,/WE ALL SCREAM,/FOR ICE CREAM.
Where learned: REMEMBERED FROM CHILDHOOD
Keyword(s): FINAL ITERATION ; PUN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
FOR BETTER OR WORSE, BUT NOT FOR LUNCH.
Where learned: CHILDHOOD
Keyword(s): CONTRAST ; MARRIED LIFE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
RETORT
I'LL POINT YOUR TOES AND POUND YOU RIGHT INTO THE GROUND.
Submitter comment: SOMETHING HE SAYS IN ANGER.
Where learned: CHILDHOOD
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
ANSWERING THE TELEPHONE
PHONE RINGS, YOU PICK UP THE RECEIVER, "JOE'S POOL
HALL, EIGHTBALL SPEAKING."
Where learned: CHILDHOOD
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 00-00-1957
THE DEADLY SIDEWALK
STEP ON A CRACK YOU BREAK (YOUR MOTHER'S OR ANYONE NAMED)
BACK.
STEP ON A LINE YOU BREAK (NAME) SPINE.
Submitter comment:
THIS CHANT WAS SUNG WHILE WALKING DOWN THE PAVEMENT AND
GREAT CARE WAS TAKEN TO MISS ALL LINES AND CRACKS IN THE
SIDEWALK (UNLESS YOU WISHED TO HARM SOMEONE IN THE
FANTASY & THEN THE CRACKS AND LINES WERE AIMED FOR).
I RECALL THE VERSE FROM EARLY CHILDHOOD BUT FROM NO
SPECIFIC INFORMANT.
Where learned: EARLY CHILDHOOD
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief |
Date learned: EARLY CHILDHOOD
PROVERB
FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE.
Where learned: HOME ; DURING HER CHILDHOOD
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
WHEN WALKING THROUGH A CEMETERY, IT IS DISRESPECTFUL TO
THE DEAD TO WALK OVER THEIR GRAVES.
Submitter comment: TAUGHT TO ME AT A YOUNG AGE--DETAILS VAGUE.
Where learned: CHILDHOOD ; BIRMINGHAM ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: CHILDHOOD
IF I PULLED A HAIR FROM A HORSE'S TAIL AND SEALED IT
IN A JAR OF MY OWN URINE, THE HAIR WOULD TURN
OVERNIGHT INTO A SNAKE.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; BLACK BOY: A RECORD OF CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH ; SIGNET BOOK ; NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY ; PAGE 81
James Callow Keyword(s): TRANSFORMATION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Mammal |
Date learned: 00-00-1945
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW,
SOMETHING BORROWED AND SOMETHING BLUE.
HAPPY THE BRIDE THE SUN SHINES ON.
Where learned: CHILDHOOD
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage Wear something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
AFTER THE CEREMONY IS OVER, THE BRIDE TOSSES HER
BOUQUET AND THE MAIDEN WHO CATCHES IT IS SUPPOSED
TO WED NEXT.
Where learned: CHILDHOOD ; MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage Bouquet toss |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN