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EENIE MEENIE MIENIE MO, CATCH A TIGER BY THE TOE
IF HE HOLLARS LET HIM GO, EENIE MEENIE MIENIE MO.
Submitter comment:
TOLD AS A RIDDLE IN A GAME TO DECIDE WHO WAS
"IT."
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; friends ; PLAYING
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 00001960S
WHEN YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE A DRINK SAY,
"OVER THE TEETH AND UNDER THE GUMS,
LOOKOUT STOMACH, HERE IT COMES."
Submitter comment:
I FIRST HEARD THIS SAID BY SOUPY SALES
DURING HIS LUNCH-TIME TV SHOW DURING
THE 1950'S ON CHANNEL 7 IN DETROIT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 00-00-1950
When my family and friends are sitting around the
house watching television, we have a saying when
you get up to go to the bathroom or get something
from the refrigerator. The saying is "Place back."
Saying "Place back" means that when you come back
you get your seat back. If you don't say "Place
back," anyone can take your seat from you. When
you come back and see that your seat is gone,
the person sitting in your chair must say,
"Move your meat, lose your seat" before you say
"Place back."
Submitter comment:
The game came about from not having enough
comfortable seats in the house. We were always
arguing who got to sit in the best chair.
Where learned: MICHIGAN
James Callow Keyword(s): Reservation formula
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 00-00-1978
This little saying was used often in my neighborhood
when I was a child, particularly among siblings:
"Liar, liar, pants on fire,
Hanging from a telephone wire."
Where learned: NEW YORK ; Kenmore
James Callow Keyword(s): INTERNAL RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 00001973 ca.
This little saying was used often in my neighborhood
when I was a child, particularly among siblings:
"Baby, baby, baby,
Stick your head in gravy,
Wrap it up in bubblegum,
And send it to the navy."
Where learned: NEW YORK ; Kenmore
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 00001973 ca.
My younger brother and I would say this to each other
if one could get the other to look at something that
really wasn't there:
"Made you look, you dirty crook,
You stole your mother's pocket book.
You turned it in, you turned it out,
You turned it into sauerkraut."
Then the one who made the other look would say,
"You one'd it."
The other would say,
"You two'd it."
We would go back and forth saying
"You three'd it."
"You four'd it."
"You five'd it."
"You six'd it."
"You seven'd it."
Finally, the one to get in the last word says'
"You eight (ate) it."
Where learned: NEW YORK ; Kenmore
James Callow Keyword(s): CHAIN ; COUNTING
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 00001973 ca.
Rhyme
At the dinner table, my mother's mother used to tease
anyone who asked to be excused. The dialogue would go
like this:
"I've had sufficient."
"You went fishing?"
"I've had plenty."
"You caught twenty?"
"Go to Hell!"
"I should say you did well!"
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): HUMOR
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 00001950CA
Whenever I say goodnight to someone, I always say "Nightie,
night, don't let the bed bugs bite."
Where learned: MICHIGAN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Sleeping SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 00001970S
MAGIC PRAYER
CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO DIE
IF I EVER TELL A LIE.
Submitter comment: THE LEFT BREAST IS CROSSED WITH THE RIGHT FOREFINGER AS THE
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech BELIEF -- Prayer SPEECH -- Gesture |
Date learned: 04-15-1972
CURSE
CROSS YOUR (MY) HEART AND HOPE TO DIE,
STICK A NEEDLE IN YOUR EYE.
Submitter comment: THIS CURSE IS UTTERED BY A PERSON TO ANOTHER TO EXACT A
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; COLUMBIA
James Callow Keyword(s): OATH
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech BELIEF -- Curse |
WHEN TWO PEOPLE SAY SOMETHIN SIMULTANEOUSLY, THEY CAN REPEAT THE
FOLLOWING RHYME AND MAKE A WISH AND IT WILL COME TRUE:
1ST PERSON--NEEDLES
2ND PERSON--PINS
1ST PERSON--WHAT COMES OUT OF THE CHIMNEY?
2ND PERSON--SMOKE
1ST PERSON--MAY YOUR AND MY WISH NEVER BE BROKE.
BOTH--THUMBS
WHEN "THUMBS" IS SAID, THE PERSONS INTERLOCK LITTLE FINGERS
AND PRESS THEIR THUMBS TOGETHER.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief Belief Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech BELIEF -- Use of Object Human beings and their activities |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BETTY BOTTER BOUGHT SOME BUTTER,
BUT, SHE SAID THE BUTTER'S BITTER;
IF I PUT IT IN MY BATTER
IT WILL MAKE MY BATTER BITTER;
BUT A BIT OF BETTER BUTTER
WILL MAKE MY BATTER BETTER.
SO SHE BOUGHT A BIT OF BUTTER
BETTER THAN HER BITTER BUTTER,
AND SHE PUT IT IN HER BATTER
AND THE BATTER WAS NOT BITTER.
SO 'TWAS BETTER BETTY BOTTER BOUGHT A BIT OF BETTER
BUTTER.
Submitter comment: TONGUE TWISTER
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; CHATTANOOGA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse C730.532 Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
HOW MUCH WOOD WOULD A WOODCHUCK CHUCK
IF A WOODCHUCK COULD CHUCK WOOD?
A WOODCHUCK WOULD CHUCK AS MUCH AS HE WOULD CHUCK
IF A WOODCHUCK COULD CHUCK WOOD.
Submitter comment: TONGUE TWISTER
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LEXINGTON
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse C730.532 Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
PUT THE ABLATIVE WITH TE,
CUM, CORAM, AB, AND E,
SINE, TENUS, PRO, AND PRE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- MNEM |
Date learned: 00-00-1962
PUT THE ABLATIVE WITH TE,
CUM, CORAM, AB, AND E,
SINE, TENUS, PRO, AND PRE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- MNEM |
Date learned: 00-00-1962
AS HE FREQUENTLY TELLS ME: WHEN HE SEES A STUPID MISTAKE
OR SOMEONE DO SOMETHING FOOLISH: A SAYING OF WHICH
THE FIRST E IN "ESEL" AND "LESEN" ARE PRONOUNCED {LONG}
A, AND HIGHLY STRESSED.
IST DAS NICHT EIN DUMER ESEL,
WAS ER HADT SCHREIBT ER KANN NICHT LESEN.
(ISN'T HE A DUMB JACKASS,
HE CANNOT READ WHAT HE HAS WRITTEN.)
Submitter comment:
HE LIKES TO SAY THIS TO ME ESPECIALLY REFERRING TO A
PERSON WHO CAN'T UNDERSTAND GERMAN--HE'LL POKE ME AND
SAY IT LOUDLY ENOUGH SO ANYONE CAN HEAR, BUT NOT
UNDERSTAND UNLESS THEY SPEAK GERMAN.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
Language
Tongue Twister Verse:
As I was passing through Arkansas, I saw a saw that could outsaw any saw I ever saw.
So, if you're ever passing through Arkansas and see a saw that can outsaw the saw I saw, I'd like to see the saw you saw as you were passing through Arkansas.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Alternative possible spelling of Collector's last name: Datson, Datser
James Callow comment:
Already typewritten as Prose.
Keyword(s): Arkansas ; Detroit ; GAME ; Language ; Prose ; PUZZLE ; Saw ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
James Callow Keyword(s): Prose ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Tongue Twister Verse
As I was passing through Arkansas, I saw a saw that could outsaw any saw I ever saw.
So, if you're ever passing through Arkansas and see a saw that can outsaw the saw I saw, I'd like to see the saw you saw as you were passing through Arkansas.
James Callow comment:
Already typewritten as Prose.
Keyword(s): Arkansas ; Detroit ; Prose ; PUZZLE ; Saw ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
James Callow Keyword(s): Prose ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Tongue Twister Verse
As I was passing through Arkansas, I saw a saw that could outsaw any saw I ever saw.
So, if you're ever passing through Arkansas and see a saw that can outsaw the saw I saw, I'd like to see the saw you saw as you were passing through Arkansas.
James Callow comment:
Already typewritten as Prose.
Keyword(s): Arkansas ; Detroit ; Prose ; PUZZLE ; Saw ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
James Callow Keyword(s): Prose ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Tongue Twister Verse
As I was passing through Arkansas, I saw a saw that could outsaw any saw I ever saw.
So, if you're ever passing through Arkansas and see a saw that can outsaw the saw I saw, I'd like to see the saw you saw as you were passing through Arkansas.
James Callow comment:
Already typewritten as Prose.
Keyword(s): Arkansas ; Detroit ; Prose ; PUZZLE ; Saw ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
James Callow Keyword(s): Prose ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |