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LIMERICK
THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY NAMED SUE/WHO SAW A STRANGE BEAST AT THE ZOO.
WHEN SHE ASKED, IS IT OLD?/ SHE WAS SMILINGLY TOLD,/ IT'S NOT AN OLD
BEAST, BUT A GNU.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
Keyword(s): ANIMALS ; DIALOGUE ; PUN ; RHYME: AABBA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 11-12-1968
TOO MUCH CHEESE
THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN NAMED NED,/WHO, JUST BEFORE GOING TO BED,
ATE VERY MUCH/ OF A CHEESE THAT WAS DUTCH__/ AND WHEN HE WOKE UP HE
WAS DEAD }
Submitter comment:
ORIGIN: AUNT MARY WHO LIVES IN ST. LOUIS, MO. USED TO SAY THIS RIME
TO HIM BEFORE GOING TO BED.
Where learned: FITZGERALD PLAYGROUND ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): FOOD ; RHYME: AABBA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Narrative Verse |
Date learned: 07-29-1964
AUTOGRAPH VERSE (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; ANNOUNCING A SIGNATURE (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
I THOUGHT AND THOUGHT, I THOUGHT IN VAIN,
BUT ALL I COULD THINK OF WAS TO SIGN MY NAME.
Submitter comment:
THIS ITEM WAS WRITTEN IN THE AUTOGRAPH BOOK OF COLETTE'S BY A
SCHOOLMATE.
Where learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
Keyword(s): FUNCTION ; IMPERFECT RHYME ; ITERATION ; RHYME: AA ; RHYME: ABCB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Announcing a signature |
Date learned: 10-08-1967
VERSE AUTOGRAPH MATERIAL (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; CHIMNEY CORNER WISDOM, ADVICE (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
IF YOU FIND A FELLOW GOOD AND TRUE,/ HANG TO HIS COAT TAIL AND
STICK LIKE GLUE./ BUT IF YOU FIND YOUR HOLD MUST SLIP,/ GRAB
ANOTHER AND LET HIM RIP. MARTHA BORGMANN
Submitter comment:
RECOPIED FROM AN OLDER AUTOGRAPH BOOK DATING AROUND 1850.
THE SELECTIONS FROM THE OLDER BOOK WERE ALSO COLLECTED IN INDIANA.
Where learned: AUTOGRAPH BOOK ; INDIANA ; BROOKVILLE
Keyword(s): ADVICE QUATRAIN ; RHYME: AABB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Chimney corner wisdom, advice, humorous fortune |
Date learned: 08-09-1960
VERSE (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; CYNICAL INSIGHT (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
NEEDLES AND PINS,/ NEEDLES AND PINS,/ WHEN YOU GET OLDER,/ YOUR
TROUBLE BEGINS. P.S. DON'T COME TO ME.
Where learned: AUTOGRAPH BOOK
Keyword(s): LOSS OF YOUTH ; REPETITION ; RHYME: AABA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Cynical insight |
Date learned: 00-00-1959
AUTOGRAPH (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; CYNICAL INSIGHT (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
FALSE TEETH, ROUGE, AND BORROWED HAIR/ MAY GIVE TO AGE A YOUTHFUL
AIRE./ BUT WHEN DEATH COMES TO CALL US HENCE/ THERE IS AN END OF
ALL PRETENCE.
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): MAKEUP WIG ; RHYME DEATH ; RHYME: AABB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Cynical insight |
Date learned: 00001955 AUTOGRAPH BOOK
AUTOGRAPH BOOK MATERIAL (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; EXHORTATORY OR HOMILETIC (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
REMEMBER YOUNG LADY BEFORE YOU GROW OLD/ A GOOD EDUCATION IS BETTER
THAN GOLD/ FOR GOLD IN TIME WILL TARNISH AWAY/ BUT A GOOD
EDUCATION WILL NEVER DECAY
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
Keyword(s): EDUCATION ADVICE ; FEMININE RHYME ; RHYME: AABB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Exhortatory or homiletic, "to be a good girl" |
Date learned: 10-12-1968
REMEMBER THIS DOT (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; FORGET ME NOT (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
REMEMBER THIS DOT..../ REMEMBER THIS BLOT... /FORGET ME NOT.
Data entry tech comment: THE PERIODS ENDING LINE TWO ARE FOLLOWED WITH A BLOT
Where learned: WRITTEN IN YEARBOOK
Keyword(s): RHYME: AAA ; TYPOGRAPHICAL VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Forget me not |
Date learned: 06-00-1966
AUTOGRAPH BOOK (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; FRIENDSHIP (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
WHEN A FEATHER WEIGHS A POUND,/ WHEN A FOX SHALL CHOOSE A HOUND,/
WHEN THE WORLD WILL COME TO AN END,/ THEN WILL I CEASE TO BE
YOUR FRIEND?
Where learned: LIBRARY
Keyword(s): RHETORICAL QUESTION ; RHYME ANIMAL ; RHYME: AABB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Friendship |
Date learned: 09-00-1967
TELL YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; GIRL CHANGING HER NAME (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
TELL YOUR MOTHER TO HOLD HER TONGUE,/FOR SHE LIKED BOYS WHEN SHE
WAS YOUNG./ TELL YOUR FATHER TO DO THE SAME,/ FOR HE WAS THE ONE
WHO CHANGED HER NAME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; AUTOGRAPH BOOK ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CENSURE OF PARENTS ; MARRIAGE ; RHYME: AABB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Girl changing her name |
Date learned: 11-03-1968
FOLK VERSE (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; GOOD WISHES (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
MAY YOUR JOYS BE AS DEEP AS THE OCEAN
AND YOUR SORROWS AS LIGHT AS ITS FOAM.
Submitter comment: MINNIE LORENZ WROTE THIS IN INFORMANT'S AUTOGRAPH BOOK.
Where learned: NORTH DAKOTA
Keyword(s): RHYME: AA ; SIMILE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Good wishes (sincere) |
Date learned: 00-00-1929
AUTOGRAPH BOOK MATERIAL (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; GOOD WISHES (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
I CAN'T THINK, TOO DUMB./ INSPIRATION WON'T COME.
CAN'T WRITE, BUM PEN,/ BUT GOD BLESS YOU. AMEN.
Where learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
Keyword(s): RHYME: AABB ; WISHES ; WRITER'S MODESTY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Good wishes (sincere) |
Date learned: 00-00-1963
PROSE AUTOGRAPH MATERIAL (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; MATRIMONY (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
WHEN YOU GET MARRIED AND LIVE UP TOWN,/ REMEMBER THE GIRL WHO WROTE
UPSIDE DOWN PEGGY SEILER
Submitter comment: WRITTEN UPSIDE DOWN ON PAGE.
Data entry tech comment: LINE DIVISIONS SUPPLIED BY KEYPUNCHER
Where learned: SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ; COLLECTED IN SEVENTH GRADE
Keyword(s): RHYME: AA ; TYPOGRAPHICAL VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Reading or writing backwards, upside down |
Date learned: 00-00-1959
MATRIMONY (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
WHEN FAR AWAY BY LOVE YOU ARE CARRIED,/ AND TO SOME LITTLE FELLER
MARRIED,/ REMEMBER ME FOR FRIENDSHIP SAKE,/ AND SEND ME A SLICE OF
WEDDING CAKE. LORRETTA MOSTER
Submitter comment:
RECOPIED FROM AN OLDER AUTOGRAPH BOOK DATING AROUND 1850.
THE SELECTIONS FROM THE OLDER BOOK WERE ALSO COLLECTED IN INDIANA.
Where learned: AUTOGRAPH BOOK ; INDIANA ; BROOKVILLE
Keyword(s): FEMININE RHYME ; QUATRAIN LOVE RHYME ; RHYME: AABB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony |
Date learned: 08-09-1960
PIOUS REFLECTION (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
IF YOU GET TO HEAVEN BEFORE I DO,/ DRILL A HOLE AND PULL ME THROUGH.
Where learned: SAINT HYACINTH GRADE SCHOOL
Keyword(s): INSTRUCTION ; RELIGION COUPLET ; RHYME: AA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Pious reflection |
Date learned: 10-10-1967
AUTOGRAPH (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; REMEMBER ME (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
REMEMBER THE BOY OF EYES OF GRAY
WHO KISSED YOU ONCE AND TURNED AWAY.
REMEMBER THE BOY OF EYES OF BROWN
WHO KISSED YOU ONCE AND TURNED YOU DOWN.
BUT REMEMBER THE BOY OF EYES OF BLUE
WHO KISSED YOU ONCE AND ASKED FOR TWO.
Submitter comment: FROM HER AUTOGRAPH BOOK 1963.
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHAIN ; COUPLETS ; INITIAL ITERATION ; REPETITION EYE COLOR ; RHYME: AABBCC
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Remember me |
Date learned: 01-00-1963
AUTOGRAPH (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; TENDER SENTIMENT (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
NOT WHAT WE GIVE, BUT WHAT WE SHARE.
FOR A GIFT WITHOUT A GIVER IS BARE.
Data entry tech comment: LINES DIVIDED BY KEYPUNCHER.
Where learned: NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
Keyword(s): COUPLET FRIENDSHIP INSIGHT ; RHYME: AA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Tender sentiment |
Date learned: 09-00-1968
NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO REST
I PRAY I PASS TOMORROW'S TEST
IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE
THAT'S ONE LESS TEST I HAVE TO TAKE.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT DORMS
Keyword(s): RHYME: AABB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief Belief |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
AN AUTOGRAPH SAYING
I WISH YOU LUCK, I WISH YOU JOY
I WISH YOU FIRST A BABY BOY
AND WHEN HIS HAIR BEGINS TO CURL
I WISH YOU THEN A BABY GIRL
AND WHEN HER HAIR IS UP IN PINS
I WISH YOU THEN A SET OF TWINS.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): IAMBIC TETRAMETER ; INITIAL ITERATION ; RHYME: AABBCC ; WISH
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse C730.342 Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony |
Date learned: 10-15-1969
AUTOGRAPH BOOK VERSE.
WHEN YOU ARE OLD AND CANNOT SEE,
PUT ON YOUR SPECS AND THINK OF ME.
Submitter comment:
THIS WAS WRITTEN BY THE LADY NEXT DOOR WHO WAS ABOUT
SIXTY-SEVEN YEARS OLD WHEN SHE WROTE IT.
Where learned: DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): SPECTACLES GLASSES SLANG
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Remember me |
Date learned: 12-24-1954