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Autograph Rhyme
Album Rhyme:
Roses are Red
Violets are Black
You'd look better
With a knife in your back
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Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; Back ; Black ; COLOR ; ENEMY ; FLOWERS ; KNIFE ; poem ; Red ; RHYME ; Roses ; Signature ; VERSE ; VERSE ; Violets
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Autograph Rhyme:
When you get married and live in a shoe,
Don't have so many children you don't know what to do.
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| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Language: Rhyme
When you get married and have twins
Don't come to me for safety pins.
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; BABY ; Language ; Pins ; poem ; RHYME ; SAFETY ; Signature ; TWINS ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
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Language: Rhyme
School's out! School's out!
Teacher wore her paddle out!
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Entertainment ; Paddle ; RHYME ; SCHOOL ; TEACHER ; Vacation
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Entertainment: Song
Lady bug, lady bug fly away home
There's a fire in the kitchen and the kids are all alone.
Submitter comment:
Learned from childhood
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Keyword(s): CHILDREN ; Entertainment ; Ladybug ; RHYME ; SONG ; WARNING
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
When distant lands divide us and you no more see me,
Remember 'twas Maude that penned these lines to thee.
Submitter comment:
From autograph book of Mrs. J.E. Moore
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Entry by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
May every blessing God can give bring peace around you while you live
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Remember when you are married and living at your ease-
Remember I am single and doing as I please.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; Married ; RHYME ; Single ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Remember well and hear in mind that a true friend is hard to find.
But when you find one just and true, change not the old for the new.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; FRIENDSHIP ; RHYME ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
If ever this book should travel to Rome,
Give it a kick and send it home.
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Entry by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; BOOK ; RHYME ; Rome ; Signature ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Verse
Guard well your thoughts, for thoughts are known in Heaven.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [v200] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; HEAVEN ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
May the Angels twine for thee, a rope of immortality.
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Entry by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): ANGELS ; AUTOGRAPH ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
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!
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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.
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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.
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Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
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 |
Cigarettes, whiskey and wild wild women
They'll drive you crazy--
They'll drive you insane!
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; 2101 Belmont Blvd.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |