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DUM-DUM DOODO/ CATCH ME IF YOU CAN./ I CAN RUN FASTER THAN ----CAN.

Where learned: KEATING SCHOOL

Keyword(s): CALL-RHYME

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 11-27-1967

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FUDGE, FUDGE CALL THE JUDGE./ MOMMY HAD A BABY,/ PAPPY GOING CRAZY./
WRAP IT UP IN TOILET PAPER/ SEND IT DOWN THE ELEVATOR./ FIRST FLOOR
MISSED. SECOND FLOOR MISSED. THIRD FLOOR MISSED. FOURTH FLOOR MISSED.
FIFTH FLOOR MISSED, SIXTH FLOOR MISSED.
SIXTH FLOOR YOU HAD BETTER NOT
MISS BECAUSE THE BABY WAS BORN AT HALF PAST SIX.

Where learned: KEATING SCHOOL

Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN-JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 11-00-1967

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ROPE-JUMPING RHYME

LET'S ALL GO TOGETHER GIRLS,
JUST LIKE THE WEATHER GIRLS.
JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL, MAY, JUNE....DECEMBER.

Where learned: KEATING SCHOOL

Keyword(s): CALL-RHYME

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 11-06-1967

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GAMES

MOTOR BOAT, MOTOR BOAT GO SO SLOW.
MOTOR BOAT, MOTOR BOAT STEP ON THE GAS.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; KEATING SCHOOL

Keyword(s): SPEED-JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 11-21-1967

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ROPE-JUMPING RHYME

LITTLE SALLY SAUCER
SITTEN IN A SAUCER
RIDE SALLY RIDE SALLY RIDE
WIPE YOUR WEEPEN EYES
SHAKE IT TO ME
SHAKE IT TO ME
SALLY RIDE
WIPE YOUR WEEPEN EYES
SHAKE IT TO ME
SHAKE IT TO ME.

Where learned: KEATING SCHOOL

Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN-JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 11-08-1967

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Rope-Jumping Rhymes

CINDERELLA DRESSED IN YELLOW,
WENT DOWNTOWN TO SEE A FELLA.
HOW MANY KISSES DID SHE RECEIVE?

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; KEATING SCHOOL

Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 10-00-1967

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Rope-Jumping Rhymes

DAGWOOD BLONDIE WENT DOWNTOWN
DAGWOOD BLONDIE BOUGHT AN EVENING GOWN.
HE HAD A QUARTER TO BUY THE NEWS.
IN THE NEWS THERE WAS SOMETHING NEW.
IF YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES AND COUNT TO TEN YOU WILL
EVER WIN.
COUNT 1-10.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; KEATING SCHOOL

Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 10-00-1967

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HOP SCOTCH

DIAGRAM OF HOP SCOTCH GAME LAYOUT ON 5 X 8 CARD.

Where learned: DETROIT ; KEATING SCHOOL ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime

Date learned: 11-00-1967

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KNOCK KNOCK JOKE

KNOCK KNOCK
WHO'S THERE?
DUKE
DUKE WHO?
DUKE THE BELLS A RINGING FOR HOLLY

Where learned: DETROIT, ASSUMED ; KEATING SCHOOL

Keyword(s): DECK THE HALLS WITH BOUGHS OF HOLLY (?) ; NAME

Subject headings: RIDDLE -- Riddle Question

Date learned: 11-28-1967

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Rope-Jumping Rhymes

DOWN IN THE VALLEY WHERE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS; THERE STOOD ___(NAME)___ AS SWEET AS A ROSE.
ALONG CAME A BOY AND KISSED HER ON THE CHEEK.
HOW MANY KISSES DID SHE RECEIVE?

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; KEATING SCHOOL

Keyword(s): ENDURANCE JUMP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

Date learned: 10-00-1967

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HOP SCOTCH.

DIAGRAM OF HOP SCOTCH GAME LAYOUT ON 5 X 8 CARD.

Where learned: DETROIT ; KEATING SCHOOL ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime

Date learned: 11-00-1967

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HOP SCOTCH

DIAGRAM OF HOP SCOTCH GAME LAYOUT ON 5 X 8 CARD.

Where learned: DETROIT ; KEATING SCHOOL ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime

Date learned: 11-00-1967

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SONG AND GAME

ALABAMA, ALABAMA
BUSH, BUSHA
ALABAMA #1
JUST WORK, WORK
WORK IT OUT BABY,
WORK, WORK IT OUT.

Where learned: DETROIT ; KEATING SCHOOL ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED

James Callow Keyword(s): CHEER?

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching

Date learned: 11-00-1967

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SONG AND GAME

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, MICHIGAN.
DETROIT #1.
JUST WORK, WORK
WORK IT OUT BABY.
WORK, WORK, WORK IT OUT.

Submitter comment: DANCE IN A CIRCLE WHEN THEY CALL YOUR NAME DANCE
IN THE MIDDLE.

Where learned: DETROIT ; KEATING SCHOOL ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching

Date learned: 11-00-1967

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GAME SONG

LITTLE SALLY WALKER, SITTEN IN A SAUCER
CRYEN AND WEEPEN FOR ALL SHE HAS DONE.
PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HIPS
AND LET YOUR BACKBONE SLIP.
SHAKE IT TO THE RIGHT,
SHAKE IT TO THE LEFT.
SHAKE IT TO THE BOY THAT YOU LOVE THE BEST.

Where learned: DETROIT ; KEATING SCHOOL ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Singing Dancing Marching

Date learned: 11-00-1967

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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

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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

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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

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Rope Jumping

Jingle, Jilgle

How do you do?

Jingle, Jingle

How are you?

Is your mother at home?

I don't know.

Jingle, jingle

Go, go,go

Data entry tech comment:

Collector does not state where informant lives.

Where learned: Informant leared at Keating School

Keyword(s): Jump ; Plain

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

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Games

Hide and seek

My mother and your mother

was hanging up the clothes.

My mother ksocked your mother

Right in the nose.

What color was the blood?

Red, red, r e d, red.

Data entry tech comment:

Collector does not state what city the informant lives.
 

Where learned: KEATING SCHOOL

Keyword(s): GAME ; VERSE

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse

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