The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

ONE, TWO, THREE
TICKA, TOCKA, TEE
SING A SONG FOR ---- (NAME)
SING A SONG FOR ME!

Data entry tech comment:

Updated by TRD

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE

Keyword(s): CHILDREN ; Children's Song ; RHYME ; SONG

Date learned: 04-00-1972

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JUST PLANT A WATERMELON ON MY GRAVE
AND LET THE JUICE SLIP THROUGH.
JUST PLANT A WATERMELON ON MY GRAVE
THAT'S ALL I ASK OF YOU!

Data entry tech comment:

Updated by TRD

Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD

Keyword(s): CHILDREN ; Children's Song ; Grave ; Juice ; RHYME ; Watermelon

Date learned: 04-00-1972

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"I'M A NUT"

LITTLE ACORN FAT AND ROUND
LAYING ON THE COLD, COLD GROUND
EVERYBODY STEPS ON ME
THAT'S WHY I'M CRACKED YOU SEE!
I'M A NUT (CLAP, CLAP)
I'M A NUT (CLAP, CLAP)
I'M A GREAT (CLAP, CLAP)
BIG NUT (CLAP, CLAP).

Data entry tech comment:

Updated by TRD

Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD

Keyword(s): Acorn ; Children's Song ; NUT ; RHYME

Date learned: 04-00-1972

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"HANGMAN"

HANGMAN, HANGMAN SLACK YOUR ROPE.
HANGMAN, HANGMAN SLACK YOUR ROPE.
SLACK IT FOR A K-K-K-K- ( SOUND AS IF CHOKING).

Data entry tech comment:

Updated by TRD

Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD

Keyword(s): Children's Song ; Hangman ; RHYME ; Rope ; SONG

Date learned: 04-00-1972

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EDDIE-COOCHA-CACHA-GAMMA
TOASTA-NARA-TOASTA-NOVA.
SAMMY-WAMMY-WAAACKI BROWN
FELL INTO THE WELL AND DROWN(ED).

Data entry tech comment:

Updated by TRD

Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD

Keyword(s): Children's Song ; RHYME ; SONG ; Well

Date learned: 04-00-1972

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LITTLE SALLY SAUCER
SITTING ON A SAUCER
CRYING 'CAUSE HER MOTHER DIED.
WHY SALLY, WHY?
WIPE OUT YOUR EYES.
POINT TO THE EAST,
POINT TO THE WEST,
POINT TO THE ONE YOU LOVE THE BEST.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE

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HERE WE GO AROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH,
THE MULBERRY BUSH, THE MULBERRY BUSH.
HERE WE GO AROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH
SO EARLY IN THE MORNING.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE

Date learned: 12-05-1973

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Entertainment: Song

Hush-A-Bye:

Hush a bye, don't you cry, go to sleep little baby.

When you wake, you will find, all the pretty little horses.

Black ones and bays, white ones and grays, all the pretty little horses.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Keyword(s): BABY ; Bay ; Black ; COLOR ; Dapple ; Entertainment ; Gray ; HORSE ; LULLABY ; SONG ; White

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Entertainment: Song

I love you a bushel and a peck.
A bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.

(then hug the person around the neck)

Data entry tech comment:

Entry by TRD

Keyword(s): CHILDHOOD ; Entertainment ; HUG ; RHYME ; SONG

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I love coffee, I love tea,
I love the boys--
And the boys love me.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; 808 Battery Ln.

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My momma gave me a nickel to buy a pickle--
I didn't buy no pickle
I bought some chew-gum!

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; 808 Battery Ln.

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I scream
You scream
We all scream
For ice cream
 

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; 808 Battery Ln.

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Children's Song

First marine when over the wall--parlez-vous
Second marine went over the wall--parlez-vous
Third marine went over the wall
Got hit in the ass with a cannonball
Hinky, Dinky, Parlez-vous.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

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One, Two, Tie My Shoe

One, two, tie my shoe
Three, four, shut the door
Five, six, pick up sticks
Seven, eight, lay them straight
Nine, ten, shout The End!

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; HOLDEN HALL ; DETROIT

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Children's Songs

Fatty and Skinny went to bed
Fatty rolled over and Skinny was dead.
Fatty called the doctor--
and the doctor said
That's what you get for rolling in bed.

Submitter comment:

My brother told me.

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD ; brother

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Children's Songs

Hi Ho Hi Ho it's off to school we go
to learn some junk
and then we'll flunk
Hi Ho Hi Ho Hi Ho (repeat)

Submitter comment:

Heard this Up North Michigan

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

Where learned: NORTHERN MICHIGAN

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Song

Great big gobs of gritty, greasy gopher guts
Little piggy's hairy feet
Mutilated monkey meat
All topped off with vulture's vomiting
Don't you wish you had a spoon
Please pass the gravy, or a flavor straw.

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

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Song

You should never laugh when a hearse goes by
For you may be the next to die.
They'll wrap you up in a linen sheet
And throw you in a hole, about six feet deep.
The coffin is alright for about a week
Then it begins to leak
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out
The spiders play pinochle, around your snout.

Submitter comment:

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

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Children's Songs

I went to Cincinnati and I walked
around the block
I walked right into a bakery shop
I bought three donuts and a pan
full of grease
And I hand the old lady a 5-cent piece
She looked at the nickel and she looked at me
She said this nickel is no good for me
There's a hole in the center and it's all the way through
And I said there's a hole in the center of your donut too!

Submitter comment:

Informant's mother told her.
 

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT LIBRARY

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