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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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The rabbit has a shiny nose
on that you may depend
because his little powder puff
is at the other end.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Had a little monkey
Took him to the country
Fed him on ginger bread.
Along came a choo choo
And knocked him cuckoo
And now my little monkey's dead.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Jump Rope Rhymes
Oliver Cromwell lost his shoe
At the battle of Waterloo
Left-Right
Left-Right
One, two
One, two
Nebuchadnezzar, the King of the Jews
Bought his wife a pair of shoes
When the shoes began to wear
Nebuchadnezzar began to swear.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Come lasses and lads
Take care of your dads--
Make way for the Maypole high . . .
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Wheer has ta' been
Sin I saw thee
On Ikly Moor bat' at
On Ikly Moor bat' at
(without a hat)
Then worms will come
And eat thee up.
Submitter comment:
Yorkshire
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Autograph Book Quote
Little John took a drink
But he will drink no more
For what he thought was H2O
was H2SO4 . . . (sulphuric acid)
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Skipping Rhyme
My mother said
I never should
play with the gypsies
in the wood.
If I did
she would say
Naughty little girl to disobey.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Autograph Book Quote
There was a young lady of Hyde
Who ate green apples and died
The apples fermented
Inside the lamented
and made cider inside her insides.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Counting Out Rhyme
One potato, two potato, three potato, four
Five potato, six potato, seven potato o'er.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Let the piper play the tune.
Explanation: If someone decides the group should do something and says let's do ---, someone else may say to him, "Well you're the piper, play the tune," meaning you lead the way and show us what to do.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Autograph Book Quote
I do not like the Dr. Fell
The reason why I can not tell!
I only know and know full well,
. . .
(last line forgotten)
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Beliefs
If two people pronounce the same word or say the same thing at the same time, they must not speak again until they have hooked their little fingers together, make wishes, and say the following for their wish to come true.
First person: "Needles,"
Second person: "Pins,"
First person: "Triplets,"
Second person: "Twins."
First person: "When a man marries,"
Second person: "His troubles begin,"
First person: "When a man dies,"
Second person: "His troubles end,"
First person: "What goes up the chimney?"
Second person: "Smoke!"
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Look, look you dirty crook
You stole your mother's pocketbook
You turned it in,
You turned it out,
You turned it into sauerkraut.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; 2227 Thistlewood
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Jump Rope Rhyme
Fudge, Fudge,
Tell the judge
(Put person's name) wants a newborn baby
Wrap it up in tissue paper
Send it down the elevator
Boy, Girl, Twins, Triplets (repeat until the person misses a jump)
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Peas, porridge hot
Peas, porridge cold
Peas, porridge in the pot
Nine days old.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE ; Box 267
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Patty Cake Song
I woke up Sunday morning
And looked upon the wall
The kooties and the bedbugs
Were playing a game of ball
The score was six to nothing
The kooties were ahead
I got so darn excited I
Fell right out of bed!
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: CHILDHOOD
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Children's Joke Verse or Mocking Verse
The child makes a companion look at something that isn't there; when the companion looks the jokester says:
I made you look
I made you look
I made you buy
A penny book.
Submitter comment:
Sometimes sung.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: NEW YORK CITY ; NEW YORK
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse C730.334 Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Verse
Here is the church, here is the steeple.
Open the doors and see all the people.
Dramatization
Using hand and fingers for church, steeple and people.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: NEW YORK CITY ; NEW YORK
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C5 Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
As a child, my friends and I would play a game to decide who we would marry. It involved counting all the buttons on our own clothing, one time, while reciting this rhyme:
"Rich man,
Poor man,
Beggar man,
Thief,
Doctor,
Lawyer,
Indian chief."
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Informant first learned this as a child, probably in Houston, Texas.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; TEXAS ; NASHVILLE ; HOUSTON
| Subject headings: | Observation Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse BELIEF -- Marriage |