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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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Little Bumble Bee
I caught a little baby bumble bee -- won't my mommy be surprised at me -- I caught a little baby bumble bee -- Buzzy Wuzzy -- Buzzy Wuzzy -- OUCH! he stung me. I'm squashing up a baby bumble bee -- won't my mommy be surprised at me -- I'm squashing up a baby bumble bee -- YUCK! He got blood on me!
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; JOHNSTOWN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Magic Mirror
Romper, Bomper, Stomper, Boo
Tell me, tell me, tell me true
Did my friends have fun at play
Magic mirror tell me today.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; JOHNSTOWN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Song
Down by the station,
Early in the morning,
See the little puffer-bellies,
All in a row.
See the station master,
Turn the little handle,
Chug, chug, toot, toot,
Off we go.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Song
I'm a little teapot, short and stout.
Here is my handle, here is my spout.
When I get excited, hear me shout.
Tip me over and pour me out.
(This song can be accompanied by gestures indicating the handle and the spout.)
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; informant's home
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Action Song: Hand on My Heart
1. Hand on my heart,
What is this here (Point to head)
This is my tinker box
Mommy my dear
Tinker box, tinker box, ting aling a ling a loo (Circular movement of forefinger near temple)
That's what we learned at the school.
2. Hand on my heart,
What is this here
This is my eye blinker (Point to eye)
Mommy my dear
Eye blinker, tinker box ting a ling a loo
That's what we learned at the school.
(The third line of each verse changes, with a repetition of parts of the body previously sung, in the fifth line. The rest of the song remains the same as the above.)
3. This is my nose smeller (Point to nose)
Nose smeller, eye blinker, tinker box etc.
4. This is my chin chopper (Point to chin)
Chin chopper, nose smeller, eye blinker, tinker box etc.
5. This is my heart beater. (Point to heart)
6. This is my bread basket. (Point to stomach)
7. This is my knee bender. (Point to knee)
8. This is my toe tapper. (Point to toe)
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Music
Two people stand opposite each other and, while clapping first their hands and then their partners, sing:
I gave my father peaches,
I gave my father pears,
I gave my father fifty cents,
And kicked him down the stairs.
I gave my mother etc.
I gave my sister etc.
I gave my aunt etc.
I gave my uncle etc.
I gave my brother etc.
Any more relatives one cares to mention.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
English Song
Early one morning just as the sun was shining
I heard a maiden sing in the valley below.
"Oh don't deceive me, oh, never leave me,
How could you use a poor maiden so."
Submitter comment:
Heard in England.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname and city of residence,
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Counting Passtime Song
One hundred bottles of beer on the wall.
One hundred bottles of beer.
If one of those bottles should happen to fall
There'd be ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall.
(Continue the song from the beginning substituting ninety-nine for one hundred and ninety-eight in the last verse until you get down to no bottles of beer on the wall.)
Submitter comment:
This was our favorite bus-ride song during any grade school field trips. We usually got to our destination by the time there were no beer bottles left.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Song
Hello, hello, Mr. Tortoise, Mr. Tortoise!
In all the world, there is no one
Who walks as slowly as you do!
Oh, why are you such a slow poke?
What are you saying, Mr. Rabbit?
All right, then. Let's have a race
To the foothills of that yonder hill.
We'll see who gets there first.
No matter how hard the tortoise hurried,
He'll probably take all evening
So methinks I'll take a nap.
Guu (snoring), guu, guu, guu
Guu, guu, guu!
Good Heavens! I overslept! What a fool I was!
Pyon (hopping), pyon, pyon, pyon,
Pyon, pyon, pyon!
You're much too late, Mr. Rabbit!
What's happened to your earlier boast, eh?
Submitter comment:
Informant learned this while growing up in Japan, and today in America, sings it to his small American-born grandchildren.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ANN ARBOR
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Goblin in the Dark
The Goblin in the dark, the goblin in the dark!
Hi! Ho! On Hal-low-een, the goblin in the dark!
The tune of this song is "the Farmer in the Dell" in a minor key. The game is played in the same way as the original song. Form a circle with one child in the center who is the "goblin."
2. The goblin calls a witch, etc.
3. The witch calls a bat, etc.
4. The bat calls a ghost, etc.
5. The ghost says, "Boo!" etc.
6. They all scream and screech, etc.
Halloween Kindergarten song.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; informant's home
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
I'm Pop-eye the sailor man
I live in the garbage can
I like to go swimming
with bald-headed women
I'm Pop-eye the sailor man
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |