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RHYME
CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO DIE
IF I SHOULD EVER TELL A LIE
Where learned: LOUISIANA ; New Orleans
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: CA11001973
FIRSTS
FIRST IS WORST, LAST IS BEST
Submitter comment:
EXPRESSION USED BY CHILDREN RACING TO GET SOMEWHERE. THIS WAS
LEARNED IN DETROIT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Date learned: 11-00-1973
TONGUE TWISTER
MOSES SUPPOSES HIS TOES ARE ROSES BUT MOSES SUPPOSES ERRONEOUSLY
FOR NOBODY'S TOESES ARE POSIES OF ROSES AS MOSES SUPPOSES HIS TOESES
TO BE.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 11-24-1973
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TONGUE-TWISTERS
MANY MEN OF MANY MINDS, MANY BIRDS OF MANY KINDS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): DIVERSITY ; ELLIPSIS
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 09-00-1973
TONGUE-TWISTERS
EIGHT GREAT GRAY GEESE GRAZING GAYLY INTO GREECE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 09-00-1973
POLISH TOAST
STO LAT STO LAT NIECH ZYJE}NAM
TRANSLATION: 100 YEARS, 100 YEARS, LET LIVE FOR US
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 10-15-1972
TOAST
THROUGH THE TEETH AND OVER THE GUMS,
LOOKOUT STOMACH, HERE IT COMES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
James Callow Keyword(s): APOSTROPHE ; MOCK GRACE BEFORE EATING
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 10-17-1972
"I'M RUBBER AND YOU'RE GLUE. EVERYTHING YOU SAY BOUNCES OFF ME
AND STICKS TO YOU.
Submitter comment:
I USED THIS AS A CHILD TO HURT A PLAYMATE WHO HAD SAID SOMETHING BAD
ABOUT ME.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 1955-1960
TOAST
HERE'S TO ONE AND ONLY ONE,
AND MAY THAT ONE BE SHE,
WHO LOVES BUT ONE AND ONLY ONE,
AND MAY THAT ONE BE ME."
ONE AND ONLY ONE AND MAY THAT ONE BE ME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 09-25-1972
TONGUETWISTER
OILY OLLIE OILS OILY AUTOS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 09-18-1972
GOOD BREAD, GOOD MEAT, LETS EAT.
Submitter comment: A MOCK PRAYER USUALLY SAID BY LITTLE CHILDREN.
Where learned: DETROIT ; TOLD IN
James Callow Keyword(s): INITIAL ITERATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief Belief Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 00001960S EARLY
A WHISTLING GIRL AND A CACKLING HEN COMES TO NO GOOD END.
Submitter comment:
MRS. SULLIVAN'S GRANDMOTHER TOLD HER THAT IN CHILDHOOD WHENEVER
SHE HEARD HER WHISTLE, AND IS STILL SAID TODAY.
Where learned: DETROIT ; TOLD IN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 10-11-1972
KILMA TOAST
NOWHERE ARE THE WOMEN SO DIVINE AS IN VIRGINIA
NOWHERE ARE THE MEN SO REFINED AS IN VIRGINIA.
COMMENT - THERE IS MORE BUT COULDN'T BE REMEMBERED; SUPPOSED TO BE
QUITE BEAUTIFUL
Where learned: VIRGINIA ; KILMARNOCK
James Callow Keyword(s): INITIAL ITERATION FINAL ITERATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 11-27-1972
WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN WE USED TO SAY THIS WHEN SOMEONE TOLD A LIE
AND UNTRUTH. "LIAR, LIAR PANTS ON FIRE,/HANGING FROM A RUSTY WIRE."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): REBUKE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C570 Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 10-07-1972
TONGUE TWISTER
PETER PIPER PICKED A PECK OF PICKLE PEPPERS, IF PETER PIPER PICKED
A PECK OF PICKLE PEPPERS, HOW MANY PICKLED PEPPERS DID PETER PIPER
PICK. WHEN MY COUSINS AND I COULD NOT GO OUTSIDE WE WOULD HAVE TO
FIND LITTLE THIMGS TO DO TO PASS THE TIME. WE WOULD OFTEN TRY TO
CATCH EACH OTHER WITH TONGUE TWISTERS.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
TONGUE TWISTER
SHE SAW SEASHELLS BY THE SEASHORE. THIS WAS ANOTHER ONE OF OUR
FAVORITE TWISTERS WE USED TO USE DURING OUR RAINY DAYS INSIDE.
James Callow Keyword(s): ALLITERATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
TONGUE TWISTER
PETER PIPER PICKED A PECK OF PICKLED PEPPERS,
HOW MANY PECKS OF PICKLED PEPPERS COULD PETER PIPER PICK,
IF PETER PIPER PICKED SOME PECKS OF PICKLED PEPPERS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FARMINGTON ; TOLD IN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 09-24-1972
TONGUE TWISTER
HOW MUCH WOOD COULD A WOODCHUCK CHUCK
IF A WOODCHUCK COULD CHUCK WOOD?
HE WOULD CHUCK AS MUCH WOOD AS A WOODCHUCK WOULD CHUCK,
IF A WOODCHUCK COULD CHUCK WOOD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FARMINGTON ; TOLD IN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 09-26-1972
GOOD-BYE VERSE
FIRST PERSON SAYS: SEE YOU LATER ALLIGATOR. THE SECOND ANSWERS: IN
AWHILE CROCODILE.
Where learned: CANADA ; ONTARIO ; DORM ; UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Date learned: 09-23-1972