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LIMERICK
THERE WAS AN OLD LADY FOM WOOSTER/WHO WAS OFTEN ANNOYED BY A ROOSTER.
SHE CUT OFF HIS HEAD/ UNTIL HE WAS DEAD/ AND NOW HE CAN'T CROW LIKE
HE USETER.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): FEMININE RHYME ; IMPERFECT RHYME ; NONSENSE ANTICLIMAX ; RHYME: AABBA ; SLANG
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 11-18-1968
LIMERICK
THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF PERU/ WHO DREAMED HE WAS KISSING HIS SHOE.
HE AWOKE IN THE NIGHT/ IN A TERRIBLE FRIGHT,/ AND FOUND IT WAS
PERFECTLY TRUE }
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; REDFORD
Keyword(s): RHYME: AABBA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: NOT RECORDED BY THE COLLECTOR
LADY FROM TELLER
THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY FROM TELLER/ SHE SAT ON A BOW-LEGGED FELL'ER
SHE MADE A MISHAP/ AND SHE FELL FROM HIS LAP/ AND SHE FOUND HERSELF
DOWN IN THE CELLAR.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED IT FROM HER FATHER MANY YEARS AGO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): FEMININE RHYME ; RHYME: AABBA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 08-00-1964
LIMERICK
THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY NAMED SUE/WHO SAW A STRANGE BEAST AT THE ZOO.
WHEN SHE ASKED, IS IT OLD?/ SHE WAS SMILINGLY TOLD,/ IT'S NOT AN OLD
BEAST, BUT A GNU.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
Keyword(s): ANIMALS ; DIALOGUE ; PUN ; RHYME: AABBA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 11-12-1968
TOO MUCH CHEESE
THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN NAMED NED,/WHO, JUST BEFORE GOING TO BED,
ATE VERY MUCH/ OF A CHEESE THAT WAS DUTCH__/ AND WHEN HE WOKE UP HE
WAS DEAD }
Submitter comment:
ORIGIN: AUNT MARY WHO LIVES IN ST. LOUIS, MO. USED TO SAY THIS RIME
TO HIM BEFORE GOING TO BED.
Where learned: FITZGERALD PLAYGROUND ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): FOOD ; RHYME: AABBA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 07-29-1964
Entry filtered.
SHORTENING BREAD
TWO LITTLE BOYS SICK IN THE BED.
ONE JUMPED UP AND BUMPED HIS HEAD.
HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR.
DOCTOR SAID:
TAKE HIM HOME AND GIVE HIM SOME SHORTENING BREAD.
Submitter comment:
THESE ARE RHYMES STATING WHAT CHILDREN WOULD DO IN ORDER TO GET SOME
BREAD.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; MERIDIAN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 09-00-1960
NURSERY RHYME
THERE WAS AN OLD CROW SAT UPON A CLOD
THAT'S THE END OF MY SONG. THAT'S ODD.
Submitter comment:
THIS RHYME WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITES WHEN I WAS SMALL. IT IS NOT
VERY COMMON, BUT IT IS SOMEWHAT HUMOROUS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK
James Callow Keyword(s): NUTSHELL NARRATIVE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1960
NURSERY RHYME
THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN HER NAME WAS PEG, HER HEAD WAS OF WOOD
AND SHE WORE A CORK LEG. THE NEIGHBORS ALL PITCHED HER INTO
THE WATER, HER LEG WAS DROWNED FIRST AND HER HEAD FOLLOWED AFTER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1940
LIMERICK
LITTLE PEANUT ON THE TRACK, HIS HEART ALL A FLUTTER, AROUND THE
CORNER CAME A TRAIN, TOOT-TOOT PEANUT BUTTER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
ONCE UPON A TIME THE GOOSE DRINK SOME WINE.
THE MONKEY DID THE SHIMMY ON THE STREET CAR LINE.
THE LINE BROKE, THE MONKEY CHOKED
THEY ALL WENT TO HEAVEN ON A LITTLE BILLY GOAT.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND IN MY PRIME I USED TO GET IT ALL THE TIME,
NOW THAT I AM OLD AND GETTING GRAY I ONLY GET IT ONCE A DAY.
Submitter comment:
THIS LITTLE VERSE WAS TOLD TO ME BY A MAN WHO HAD LIVED FOR
MANY YEARS IN THE THUMB AREA. HE HAD HEARD THIS WHEN HE WORKED FOR
A LUMBER COMPANY IN THAT AREA.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1977
JUMP-ROPE RHYME
MISS LUCY HAD A TUGBOAT. THE TUGBOAT HAD A BELL.
THE TUGBOAT WENT TO HEAVEN AND MISS LUCY WENT TO HELLO,
OPERATOR, I'LL TELL YOU NO MORE LIES. MISS LUCY TOLD ME
ALL OF THIS THE NIGHT BEFORE SHE DIED.
Where learned: DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): EUPHEMISM: HELLO FOR HELL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: CA00001960S
VERSE WITHOUT MUSIC, STANDARD VERSE THAT TELLS A STORY
LITTLE TOMMY TUCKER
LITTLE TOMMY TUCKER WAS A FUNNY LITTLE CHAP,
WHOSE FATHER WAS A SAILOR ON THE BAY.
AND HIS TONGUE TIED TONGUE WAS TIED IN A KNOT,
SO HE COULDN'T SING FOR SUPPER SO THEY SAY.
BUT ALONG CAME A FRIEND FROM THE CITY OF BAY.
AND A PEICE OF GOOD ADVICE HE GAVE.
SAYING TOMMY IF YOU WANT TO GET YOUR TONGUE UNTIED,
WHY CAKA LOKA CAKA LOKA LOKA LOKA LOKA KA
WHY CAKA LOKA CAKA LOKA LOKA LOKA LOKA KA
WHY CAKA LOKA CAKA LOKA LOKA LOKA LOKA KA
Submitter comment:
THIS IS SOMEWHAT OF A CUTE STORY THAT WAS TOLD TO ME, AND AN
INTERESTING PIECE OF LITRATURE
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 01-00-1979
AUTOGRAPH BOOK VERSE
JANIE HAD A LITTLE CAR,
ITS PAINT WAS SHINY RED.
AND EVERYWHERE THAT JANIE WENT,
THE COPS PICKED UP THE DEAD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
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JOHN AND MARY SITTING IN A TREE
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
FIRST COMES LOVE
THEN COMES MARRIAGE
THEN COMES JOHN
IN A BABY CARRIAGE.
Submitter comment:
THIS WAS DONE IN GRADE SCHOOL AS A TEASE ABOUT A COUPLE
EXPERIENCING PUPPY LOVE. KISSING WAS SPELLED OUT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
James Callow Keyword(s): NUTSHELL NARRATIVE
| Subject headings: | 730 Lyrical Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 04-11-1979
THE SEWER
BY THE SEWER I LIVED,
BY THE SEWER I DIED,
THEY CALLED IT MURDER,
BUT IT WAS SEWER-CIDE.
Submitter comment: GRADE SCHOOL AUTOGRAPH BOOK
Data entry tech comment: ADDED TITLE AND COMMAS
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
Keyword(s): SUICIDE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Translations, plays on words, symbol writing |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
FLYLEAF-FRIENDSHIP
SHIRLEY HAD A LITTLE LAMP,
SHE HAD IT TRAINED NO DOUBT.
EVERTIME HER BOYFRIEND CAME,
THE LITTLE LAMP WENT OUT.
Submitter comment: FROM MY AUTOGRAPH BOOK, DATE 1939. MY GIRLFRIENDS WROTE IN IT.
Data entry tech comment: ADDED COMMAS WHERE NECESSARY
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; NORTHVILLE
Keyword(s): LIGHT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Humorous allusion to love |
Date learned: 08-00-1964
AUTOGRAPH FROM NADYNE ORLOFF
HE WALKED HER HOME WHEN THE NIGHT WAS DARK,
HE RAN AHEAD TO OPEN THE GATE.
SHE WANTED TO THANK HIM, BUT SHE DIDN'T KNOW HOW,
'CUZ HE WAS THE FARMER, AND SHE WAS THE COW/
Submitter comment:
ENTRY DATED 1963 IN AUTOGRAPH BOOK, KEPT IN OADK PARK, MICHIGAN
1963 - 1972
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; OAK PARK
Keyword(s): RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 00-00-1963