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PARODY
OH SAY CAN YOU SEE
ANY BEDBUGS ON ME
IF YOU DO
TAKE A FEW
AND I'LL FRY THEM FOR YOU.
Submitter comment: FROM HER GRANDFATHER, MR. HELLER, OF ENGLISH DESCENT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
Keyword(s): FOOD : AABBB ; HUMOR ; STAR SPANGLED BANNER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: 00001964 SUMMER
MEMORY
REMEMBER M
REMEMBER E
PUT THEM TOGETHER
AND REMEMBER ME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): FRIENDSHIP ; RHYME: AABA ; SPELLING RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: 08-00-1964
IF YOU GET TO HEAVEN
BEFORE I DO.
MAKE A LITTLE HOLE
AND PULL ME THROUGH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ADVICE ; INSTRUCTIONS ; RHYME: ABCB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
VERSE
MOTHER, MOTHER, WHAT IS THAT
HANGING DOWN OLD GRANDMA'S BACK?
SHUT YOUR MOUTH YOU DIRTY THING,
THAT'S YOUR GRANDMA'S CORSET STRING.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT HEARD THIS SAID WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD DURING THE 1920,S
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; PITTSBURGH
Keyword(s): DIALOGUE ; IMPROPRIETY ; QUESTION AND ANSWER ; RHYME: ABCC
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: 10-02-1971
SPELLING RHYME
CHICKEN IN A CAR,
CAR WON'T GO,
THAT'S THE WAY YOU SPELL CHICAGO}
Submitter comment: INFORMANT SAID THIS WHEN YOUNG IN THE 1920,S
Where learned: HOME ; PENNSYLVANIA ; PITTSBURGH
Keyword(s): RHYME: AA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: 10-02-1971
VERSE TO LIVE BY
IT'S NICE TO BE IMPORTANT, BUT IT'S MORE
IMPORTANT TO BE NICE
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; CAMPUS
Keyword(s): CHIASMUS ; OBSERVATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-09-1971
SPELLING RHYME
A KNIFE AND A FORK,
A BOTTLE AND A CORK,
THAT'S THE WAY YOU SPELL NEW YORK}
Submitter comment: INFORMANT SAID THIS WHEN YOUNG IN THE 1920,S
Keyword(s): RHYME: AAA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: 10-02-1971
MOUNTAINEERS WITH HAIRY EARS
WE'RE MOUNTAINEERS WITH HAIRY EARS;
WE DON'T WEAR ANY BRITCHES;
WE GREET OUR WIVES WITH BUTCHER KNIVES,
WE'RE HARDY SONS OF BITCHES.
Where learned: PLACE UNKNOWN
Keyword(s): RHYME: ABCB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: 09-00-1968
WHERE IS THE FLOWERS?
SPRING IS HERE
THE GRASS IS RIS'
I WONDER WHERE
THE FLOWERS IS.
Where learned: PLACE UNKNOWN
Keyword(s): RHYME: ABCB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: 00-00-1962
POW WOW
WE ARE THE INDIANS TALL AND STRAIGHT,
IN OUR FEATHERS AND WAR PAINT.
THE MEN OF THE OLD EN-KOW, FOR WE ARE
POW WOW, POW WOW, WE'RE
THE RED MEN, FEATHERS IN OUR HEAD MEN,
DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN, UGH, POW WOW.
WE CAN FIGHT WITH STICKS AND STONES,
BOWS AND ARROWS, BRICKS AND BONES.
WE COME HOME FROM FIGHTING AFAR,
GREETED BY OUR LONG-NOSED SQUAW.
WE RIDE PONIES SWIFT AND SLEEK, ON
OUR TOM-TOMS WE WILL BEAT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: 01-00-1979
POPULAR SAYING
MY NAME IS WEST
AND I AINT IN THAT MESS
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: 04-00-1979
BED TIME RHYME
DRAW A BUCKET OF WATER
FOR YOUR OLDEST DAUGHTER
THREE IN THE KITCHEN
AND A FOUR OUTSIDE
SO LET THE PRETTIES
COME INSIDE
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: 04-00-1979
HIGH SCHOOL CHEER
WE ARE NUMBER ONE
WE CAN'T BE NUMBER TWO
"SAY WHAT?"
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: CA0001970
JUMP ROPE RHYME
SOAP ONLY COST A DIME
YOU NEED IT ALL THE TIME
BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN DRINKING WINE
AND SOAP MAKES IT FADE AWAY
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: CA0001970
JUMP ROPE RHYME
I LOST MY HANKERCHIEF YESTERDAY
I FOUND IT TODAY
IT WAS FULL OF DIRT
SO I THREW IT AWAY
Where learned: TENNESSEE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: 04-00-1979
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DIMPLE ON THE CHIN,
DEVIL WITHIN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief C860.438 |
Date learned: 11-18-1968
MNEMONIC DEVICE
AM, IS, ARE, DO, DID, CAN, COULD.
WAS, WERE, BE, WILL, WOULD, SHALL, SHOULD.
HAS BEEN, HAVE BEEN, MAY, MIGHT, MUST.
Submitter comment: MY BROTHER LEARNED THIS LITTLE RHYME TO REMEMBER HIS HELPING VERBS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GARDEN CITY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
MNEMONIC DEVICE
THIRTY DAYS HALF SEPTEMBER, APRIL, JUNE AND NOVEMBER
Submitter comment: THE WORD HALF MAY ORGINALLY HAVE BEEN THE WORD HAVE BUT WAS CHANGED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LINCOLN PARK
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- MNEM |
Date learned: 09-00-1981
COMET. IT MAKES YOUR BREATH SO CLEAN.
COMET. IT TASTES LIKE KEROSENE.
COMET. IT MAKES YOU VOMIT,
SO BUY SOME COMET AND VOMIT TODAY!
Where learned: DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): COMET IS A BATHROOM CLEANSER.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: 00-00-1975