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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
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 |
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
WAS BITTER IST IM MUNDE DAS IST DEM HERZ GESUNDE.
Where learned: RESIDENCE
Keyword(s): IS HEALTHY IN THE HEART. ; {KEYPUNCHER'S TRANSLATION} : WHAT IS BITTER IN THE MOUTH
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
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