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WHISTLING GIRL

A WHISTLING GIRL AND A CROWING HEN WILL COME TO NO
GOOD END.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PRIMM SPRINGS

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb
PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

Date learned: 07-18-1968

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PROVERB

A WHISTLING WOMAN IS LIKE A CROWING HEN
SHE'S NO GOOD TO BEAST OR MEN.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb
PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison

Date learned: 02-00-1972

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SEE A PIN AND PICK IT UP,
ALL THAT DAY YOU'LL HAVE GOOD LUCK.
SEE A PIN AND LET IT LAY,
BAD LUCK WILL FOLLOW ALL THAT DAY.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb
BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance

Date learned: 07-06-1973

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PROVERB

MY NAME IS ROSE,
I EAT IN REPOSE.

Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS IN ITALIAN FROM A FRIEND.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb

Date learned: 08-11-1964

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PROVERB

MORGENSTUND HAT GALD IN MUND.

Where learned: HOME

James Callow Keyword(s): GELD ; GERMAN ; RHYME

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb
PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: NOT GIVEN BY COLLECTOR

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SHARED REMEMBRANCES LIVE ON
LONG AFTER YOUTH HAS COME AND GONE.

Submitter comment: INFORMANT HEARD THIS IN NORWALK, OHIO.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb
PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

Date learned: 10-16-1967

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SHARE THE WEALTH - SHARE SOMETHING YOU HAVE WITH
SOMEONE ELSE.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb
PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

Date learned: 10-27-1969

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SHOOTING FROM THE LIP CAN BE JUST AS DEADLY AS SHOOTING
FROM THE HIP.

Submitter comment: INFORMANT BELIEVES THAT SHE HEARD THIS FROM A CO-OFFICE
WORKER AT PARKE DAVIS AND COMPANY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN,
ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO. RECALLS THAT SHE HEARD IT FROM A
LADY WHO CONTINUALLY TALKED.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): GOSSIP

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb
PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 10-20-1971

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SING BEFORE BREAKFAST,
CRY BEFORE DINNER.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb
PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 02-27-1971

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SING BEFORE YOU EAT,
YOU'LL CRY BEFORE YOU SLEEP.

Submitter comment: AN OLD SAYING MY GRANDMOTHER USED TO KEEP ME FROM
SINGING BEFORE BREAKFAST; SHE ALWAYS SAID IT WAS
"BAD LUCK," BUT I RATHER SUSPECT I WAS JUST TOO NOISY.

Where learned: OHIO ; TOLEDO

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb
PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES,
BUT NAMES WILL NEVER HURT ME.

Submitter comment: CHILDHOOD FRIENDS.
SHE TOLD ME WHEN I ASKED HER HOW SHE LEARNED THIS SAYING.

Where learned: LEOS GRILL

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb

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STICKS AND STONES MAY HURT MY BONES,
BUT WORDS CAN NEVER HARM THEM.

Submitter comment: NEIGHBOR CHILDREN WHEN YOUNGER.

Where learned: HOME

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb

Date learned: 04-15-1967

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THEY NEVER TASTE WHO ALWAYS DRINK,
THEY ALWAYS TALK WHO NEVER THINK.

Submitter comment: THIS WAS WRITTEN IN MY MOTHER'S AUTOGRAPH
BOOK WHEN SHE WAS VISITING ENGLAND IN 1937.

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb

Date learned: 10-16-1967

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THOSE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES DON'T THROW STONES.

Submitter comment: FROM FRIENDS

Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb

Date learned: 10-09-1967

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TO BED TO BED SAYS SLEEPY HEAD, LET'S WAIT AWHILE SAYS
SLOW, LET'S EAT A LITTLE BIT SAYS GREEDY GUT AND THEN
WE WILL ALL GO.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb
PROVERB -- Wellerism Quotation

Date learned: 01-19-1971

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GERMAN PROVERB

TOMORROW, TOMORROW ONLY NOT TODAY,
SAY ALL THE LAZY PEOPLE.

Submitter comment: {GERMAN:} MORGEN, MORGEN NUR NICHT HEUTE
SPRACHE ALLE FAULE LEUTE.

Where learned: SAINT LEONARD SCHOOL

Keyword(s): PROCRASTINATION SLOTH

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb
PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

Date learned: 09-21-1965

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CHILD'S SUPERSTITIOUS SAYING

TOUCH BLACK NO TRADES BACK.

Submitter comment: LEARNED AS A CHILD IN DETROIT

Where learned: STUDENT UNION

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb

Date learned: 04-04-1967

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TWO CUPS - ONE POUND,
THE WORLD AROUND.

Submitter comment: COLLECTOR DOES NOT KNOW MEANING. --J.T.CALLOW

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; STUDENT UNION

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb

Date learned: 09-22-1968

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PROVERB: DEAF EARS

WHEN PEOPLE SAY CRAZY THINGS, CLOSE YOUR EARS.
A PALABRAS LOCAS, OREJAS SORDAS.

Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS PROVERB THROUGH HIS STUDY OF SPANISH.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb
PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

Date learned: 10-05-1967

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