The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

Language: Rhyme

When you get married and live in a truck,

Order your children from Sears Roebuck.

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Keyword(s): CHILDREN ; Language ; Married ; poem ; RHYME ; Roebuck ; Sears ; TRUCK ; VERSE ; Vocabulary

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Language: Rhyme

 I wish you luck

I wish you joy.

I wish you first a baby boy

And when his hair begins to curl

I wish you then a baby girl.

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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; BABY ; Boy ; Curl ; Girl ; HAIR ; Language ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE ; WISH

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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

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Childrens' Rhyme

Everyday we go to shop
At the bakery, I like to stop
And point my finger and say "let's try it."
But my mother replies, "You're on a diet."

Oh, how happy I will be
When Mother no longer says to me:

"You can't eat this, You can't eat that,
Cause this and that will make you fat."

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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE

Keyword(s): Bakery ; CHILDREN ; Eat ; Fat ; Language ; MOTHER ; RHYME ; Shop ; SONG ; VERSE

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Children's Rime

Does your nose run, do your feet smell?
Why, then you're built upside down.

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Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE ; Goucher College

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Children's Play Song

Chorus:
Boom, Boom, ain't it great to be crazy
Boom, Boom, ain't it great to be crazy

A horse and a flea and three blind mice
Sat on a table shooting dice
The horse, he slept and fell on the flea
Oops said the flea, there's a horse on me (chorus)

Eli, Eli, he sells sox
A dollar for a pair, a nickel for a box
The longer you wear 'em, the shorter they get
You put 'em in the water and they don't get wet (chorus)

A man sells a pair of Venetian underwear
He wore 'em nine months without a single tear
Wore 'em nine months, without exageration
Couldn't take 'em off 'cause he lost the combination (chorus)

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Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE ; Goucher College

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Verse

Dum Dum Do Do catch me if you can
I can run faster than ____(name)____ can.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE WOODS

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To your boyfriend or husband:

Here I stand,
all ragged and dirty,
if you don't come kiss me,
I'll run like a turkey.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE

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Latin is a dead language
taught by Sister C.
It killed all the Romans,
now it's killing me.

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Informant and collector are the same person.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE

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