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WHENEVER MY GRANDFATHER WOULD LOSE AT CARDS, HE WOULD
GET UP AND WALK AROUND HIS CHAIR, FOR LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement BELIEF -- Conversions Games Pastimes Sports |
Date learned: 10-23-1970
FOR GOOD LUCK IN PLAYING CARDS, GET UP AND WALK
AROUND YOUR CHAIR.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS FROM HER MOTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement BELIEF -- Conversions Games Pastimes Sports |
Date learned: 07-14-1964
WHEN PLAYING CARDS CHANGE YOUR SEAT TO CHANGE YOUR
LUCK.
Submitter comment: FROM FRIENDS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement BELIEF -- Conversions Games Pastimes Sports |
Date learned: 10-08-1967
FOR GOOD LUCK AT A CARD TABLE, WALK AROUND YOUR CHAIR
FROM THE RIGHT SIDE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement BELIEF -- Conversions Games Pastimes Sports |
Date learned: 02-17-1970
IF YOU ARE HAVING BAD LUCK IN CARDS, WALK AROUND
YOUR CHAIR FOR GOOD LUCK.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT HAD KNOWN THIS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement BELIEF -- Conversions Games Pastimes Sports |
Date learned: 10-19-1967
TO CHANGE ONE'S (BAD) LUCK IN A POKER GAME,
YOU GET UP AND WALK AROUND YOUR OWN CHAIR AND
SIT DOWN AGAIN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): CARDS
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement BELIEF -- Conversions Games Pastimes Sports |
Date learned: 12-00-1971
"LUCKY AT CARDS, UNLUCKY AT LOVE."
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
James Callow Keyword(s): FORMULA SPEECH
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement BELIEF -- Conversions Games Pastimes Sports SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 08-00-1967
IT IS BELIEVED THAT IF A PLAYER WINNING IN CARDS
COUNTS HIS MONEY WINNINGS, HE WILL BEGIN TO LOSE
BEFORE THE GAME IS OVER.
Submitter comment: FROM A FRIEND.
Where learned: FRATERNITY HOUSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement BELIEF -- Number Counting beliefs BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 10-29-1967
WHEN PLAYING CARDS, NEVER ALLOW A PERSON TO STAND
OVER YOU AND LOOK AT YOUR CARDS, YOU WILL NEVER
WIN.
Submitter comment: FROM FRIENDS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY ; Lansing
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
Date learned: 10-21-1967
WHENEVER YOU HAVE AN APPLE WITH A STEM, YOU TAKE THE STEM
AND BEGIN TO TWIST IT. EACH TIME YOU TWIST THE STEM
YOU SAY A LETTER OF THE ALPHABET--THE LETTER THAT THE STEM
TWISTS OFF ON WILL BE THE FIRST LETTER OF THE LAST NAME
OF THE MAN YOU WILL MARRY.
Where learned: NASHVILLE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Marriage BELIEF -- Word Letter BELIEF -- Use of Object |
Date learned: 06-27-1972
WHEN PLAYING CARDS:
CUT DEEP TO WEEP
CUT THIN TO WIN.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | 881 Games / Pastimes / Sports Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement BELIEF -- Bad luck Games Pastimes Sports |
Date learned: 07-19-1968
CUT PLAYING CARDS THIN TO WIN.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; HOPKINSVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance |
SHEEP IN THE MEADOW,
COWS IN THE CORN
JUMP IN ON THE MONTH YOU WERE BORN.
JANUARY,FEBRUARY, MARCH...
SHEEP IN THE MEADOW,
COWS IN THE CORN,
NOW JUMP OUT ON THE DATE YOU WERE BORN.
ONE TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE,...
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement |
DOWN IN THE VALLEY
WHERE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS,
THERE SAT "NAME"
SWEET AS A ROSE.
ALONG CAME JOHNNY
AND KISSED HER ON THE CHEEK.
HOW MANY KISSES DID SHE GET THAT WEEK?
FIVE, TEN, FIFTEEN, TWENTY,...(UNTIL MISS)
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement |
Date learned: 09-16-1973
ONE PERSON HIDES THE THIMBLE SOMEWHERE IN THE HOUSE. THE OTHER
PERSON TRIES TO FIND IT WITH THE DIRECTIONS OF HIS PLAYMATE
WHO SAYS "YOU'RE HOT" WHEN YOU ARE CLOSE AND YOU'RE COLD"
WHEN YOU ARE FAR AWAY.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement |
Date learned: 09-16-1973
SIT WITH BRIDGE PARTNER LINED UP THE SAME WAY THE BATHTUB
IS POSITIONED IN THE HOUSE.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; SCOTTSVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement |
Date learned: 10-12-1973
CHINESE JUMPROPE:
TAKE RUBBER BANDS AND HOOK TOGETHER SO YOU HAVE TEN
TO TWELVE FEET OF RUBBER BANDS SO YOU HAVE A CIRCLE.
TWO PEOPLE ON EACH END STEP INSIDE SO RUBBER IS
PULLED TIGHT ENOUGH SO RUBBER BAND DOESN'T SAG. THIRD
PERSON DOES DIFFERENT JUMPS. AT DIFFERENT INTERVALS
THE TWO END PEOPLE RAISE IT TO DIFFERENT HEIGHTS ON
THEIR LEGS.
JUMPS:
CLOSEST FOOT TO RUBBER BAND IN AND OUT OF RUBBER BAND
TEN TIMES WITHOUT TOUCHING.
PUT FOOT IN THEN OUT THEN TAKE NEAREST BAND AND PUT
OVER FARTHEST BAND THEN UNDO TEN TIMES WITHOUT MESSING
UP.
CROSSING LIKE BEFORE, PUT OTHER FOOT IN ALSO, TURN
AROUND THREE TIMES OTHER WAY THEN JUMP OUT WITHOUT
TOUCHING OR JUMPING IN RUBBER BAND.
THEN GO TO OTHER SIDE OF RUBBER BANDS AND DO THE ABOVE
WITH THE OTHER FOOT.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement |
Date learned: 11-10-1973
RUNNING IN FROM OUTFIELD YOU HAVE TO RUN OVER THIRD
BASE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROSEVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-08-1965
FORMULA SPEECH AND GESTURES
WHENEVER THERE IS A KICK-OFF AT A FOOTBALL GAME,
AT DENBY HIGH SCHOOL {DETROIT, MICHIGAN ASSUMED}
IT WAS TRADITION TO RAISE YOUR ARMS AND INTERLOCK
LITTLE FINGERS WITH THE PERSON NEXT TO YOU AND SAY
GOOOOOO UNTIL THE BALL WAS KICKED. AT NOTRE DAME
HIGH SCHOOL {DETROIT, MICHIGAN ASSUMED} IT WAS
TRADITION TO RAISE YOUR RIGHT ARM AND CIRCLE IT WHILE
YOU SAID GOOO UNTIL THE BALL WAS KICKED.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
CASINO WORKERS USE GESTURES: FINGERTIPS TOUCHING
TABLE MEANS "THERE'S A CHISLER HERE;" A FINGER BEHIND
THE EAR IS A DISTRESS CALL FOR THE HEAD MAN; CROSSED
INDEX AND THIRD FINGER MEANS "PLEASE TAKE OVER;"
PALM AND FINGERS EXTENDED DOWNWARD MEANS "THEY ARE
CLEANED OUT."
Where learned: BOOK
Keyword(s): SLANG: CLEANED OUT: OUT OF MONEY.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business SPEECH -- Underworld SPEECH -- Instructions Directions |
Date learned: 00-00-1965