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KNOCK KNOCK JOKE
KNOCK KNOCK
WHO'S THERE?
DOMINO
DOMINO WHO?
DOMINO THING IF YA AIN'T GOT THAT SWING.
Submitter comment: AT SOME PARTY
Where learned: UNKNOWN
Keyword(s): SONG TITLE: IT DON'T MEAN A THING IF YOU AIN'T GOT THAT SWING
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 11-03-1967
KNOCK KNOCK JOKE
KNOCK KNOCK
WHO'S THERE?
CIGARETTE
CIGARETTE WHO?
CIGARETTE LIFE IF YOU DON'T WEAKEN.
Where learned: UNKNOWN
Keyword(s): IT@S A GREAT LIFE IF YOU DON@T WEAKEN
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 11-03-1967
PROVERB
HE WHO IS YOUNG HAS AN OPEN MIND.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MACKENZIE HIGH SCHOOL
Keyword(s): YOUTH
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-12-1965
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
STORY ABOUT THE DEVIL,S DANCING IN THE WOODS
IT WAS HARVEST TIME AND ALL THE YOUNG FOLK WERE THRASHING THE GRAINS
THAT HAD JUST BEEN HARVESTED.
ONE AUTUMN NIGHT ABOUT 11 O,CLOCK WHILE THEY WERE THRASHING THE GRAIN
THEY HEARD MUSIC COMING FROM THE RAFTERS, THEY LOOKED UP AND SAW
SOME DEVILS DANCING UP IN THE LOFT. THESE DEVILS WERE ALL BLACK AND
ALL THEIR CLOTHING WERE BLACK. THEY DANCED ON ONE LEG AND ONLY HAD
ONE EYE AND ONE NOSTRIL. THE MUSIC WAS PLAYED ON A SMALL ACCORDION
AND FIDDLE.
THE YOUTHS WERE TYPICALLY BRAVE AND BOISTERIOUS AND DECIDED TO TAKE
THE INSTRUMENTS AWAY. THE DEVILS LEFT AT THE FIRST COCKS CROW
(ONE O,CLOCK) WITH A WHISTLE AND A BANG. SO THE NEXT NIGHT THE
YOUTHS , AS THE DEVILS WERE ABOUT TO LEAVE AT THE COCK,S CROW,
KNOCKED ONE INSTRUMENT OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE DEVILS.
BUT WHEN THEY REACHED THE INSTRUMENT IT WAS JUST A LARGE CHARRED
PIECE OF WOOD. THE NEXT NIGHT THE DEVILS CAME BACK AND BEGGED
CKRYVEL, KRYVEL GIVE US BACK OUR FIDDLE" BUT THE YOUTHS DID NOT
RETURN IT. THE TWO YOUTHS WHO HAD TAKEN IT HAD TO PREPARE THE
STOVE FOR DRYING OUT THE GRAINS BEFORE THE THRASHING. THEY THREW THE
CHARRED WOOD INTO THE STOVE BUT IT WOULDN,T BURN. SO THEY WENT TO
BED AND THE NEXT MORNING THE TWO WERE FOUND STRANGLED.
Submitter comment:
THIS STORY WAS TOLD TO MY GRANDMOTHER BT HER GRANDMOTHER WHEN SHE WAS
A CHILD. THE TIME IS APPROXIMATELY THE TURN OF THE CENTURY WHEN THE
STORY WAS TOLD. THE STORY TOOK PLACE AROUND 1850.
SHE TOLD MY GRANDMOTHER THAT SHE ACTUALLY SAW THESE DEVILS.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DO NOT TAKE THINGS THAT DO NOT BELONG TO YOU -PAYMENT CAN BE COSTLY ; THEFT FORM DEVIL
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Devil Demon |
PRAYER, VERSE CRUCIAL MOMENT OF LIFE.
THANK THE LORD FOR A GIRL SO FINE,
YOU GAVE TO ME TO CALL HER MINE,.
NOW SHE'S GONE, SHE'S NEAR HER THRONE,
AND SHE'LL WAIT TILL I COME HOME.
CHORUS: LORD I LOVE HER, LORD I CRY,
LORD I MISS HER, TILL THE DAY I DIE.
ON THIS EARTH I'LL WORK AND PRAY
TILL GOD COMES AND TAKES ME AWAY,
UP TO HEAVEN HIGH IN THE SKY,
THE PLACE THAT YOU RESERVE FOR YOU AND I } }
CHORUS: LORD I LOVE HER, LORD I CRY,
LORD I MISS HER, TILL THE DAY I DIE.
Submitter comment:
THIS HAS TO DO WITH MANY CRUCIAL MOMENTS OF LIFE FROM BIRTH TO DEATH
I FEEL THAT THIS IS A VERY MOVING AND BEATIFUL VERSE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
James Callow Keyword(s): RYME PROMPTS WRONG CASE: FOR YOU AND I
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Custom Festival C840.546 Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief Belief BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 04-00-1979
IF YOUR HEAD IS WAX DON'T WALK IN THE SUN.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): HUMOR
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE: NEGATIVE ; STAY OUT OF DANGER IF YOU'RE VULNERABLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 11-01-1968
AUTOGRAPH BOOK VERSE
THE HIGHER THE MOUNTAIN
THE COOLER THE BREEZE.
THE YOUNGER THE COUPLE
THE TIGHTER THEY SQUEEZE
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
James Callow Keyword(s): ANALOGY ; ELLIPSIS ; RHYME: ABCB ; YOUTH
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1933
KNOCK KNOCK JOKE
KNOCK, KNOCK
WHO'S THERE?
GOLIATH
GOLIATH WHO?
GO-LIATH DOWN, YOU LOOKETH TIRED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FRANKLIN VILLAGE
James Callow Keyword(s): GO LIE DOWN, YOU LOOK TIRED
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 00001960S
KNOCK KNOCK JOKE
KNOCK, KNOCK
WHO'S THERE?
YULE
YULE WHO?
YULE NEVER KNOW!
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FRANKLIN VILLAGE
James Callow Keyword(s): "YOU'LL NEVER KNOW" WAS A SONG POPULAR IN THE 1940S.
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 00001960S
KNOCK, KNOCK JOKE
KNOCK, KNOCK.
WHO'S THERE?
ROACH.
ROACH WHO?
ROACH YOU A LETTER BUT YOU DIDN'T GET IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): WROTE YOU
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 00001970S
KNOCK, KNOCK JOKE
KNOCK, KNOCK.
WHO'S THERE?
BANANA.
BANANA WHO?
BANANA SPLIT.
KNOCK, KNOCK.
WHO'S THERE?
BANANA.
BANANA WHO?
BANANA SPLIT.
KNOCK, KNOCK.
WHO'S THERE?
BANANA.
BANANA WHO?
BANANA SPLIT.
KNOCK, KNOCK.
WHO'S THERE?
ORANGE.
ORANGE WHO?
AREN'T YOU GLAD I DIDN'T SAY BANANA?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): AREN'T YOU
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 00001970S
Forever Young
If a Chinese girl with green eyes marries any man that man
will remain forever young. It is very hard to find a
Chinese girl with this type of eye color so luck is also
a great factor.
Submitter comment:
I personally have never seen a Chinese girl with green eyes
but my informant has and he spoke with her, that's how he
gave me this story.
Where learned: OHIO
Keyword(s): Eternal youthfulness
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Marriage BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 00-00-1991
If yo tink yo bundle of dirty clothes too heavy, try
picking up yo neighbor's own.
Submitter comment:
People always believe that they have the worst of everything
until they realize that other people have problems too.
Where learned: VIRGIN ISLANDS ; Saint Thomas
Keyword(s): tink = think ; yo = you or your
James Callow Keyword(s): Advice -- Positive ; Metaphor: problems = bundle of clothes ; RELATIVITY ; WEIGHT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 02-00-1991
Yo have mo front 'n Katie Ben.
Submitter comment:
You have more "gumption" than Katie Ben. The story goes back
to the 1940's in Saint Thomas when there was a problem with
the congregation of a Methodist church. Everyone was afraid
to talk about it, including the minister, even though all knew
a problem existed. Katie Ben, a child, got up in church and
spoke out or took the "front." The informant has no idea what
the problem was at the time but that is where this saying came
from.
Where learned: VIRGIN ISLANDS ; Saint Thomas
Keyword(s): 'n = than ; mo = more ; Yo = you
James Callow Keyword(s): Effrontery Boldness Audacity ; Personal name in proverb
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 03-00-1991
Yo is a White Sam.
Submitter comment:
A White Sam is a stupid person or one that does the
unnecessary. The story goes that White Sam
wanted to ride to town 8 miles away but he didn't have a
saddle and the occasion demanded that he be dressed in his
finest. White Sam walked 14 miles to West End
(7 miles there and 7 back) to borrow a saddle, then rode to
town in high style.
Where learned: VIRGIN ISLANDS ; Saint Thomas
Keyword(s): Yo = you
James Callow Keyword(s): Fool Numskull
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 03-00-1991
Shut yo do' an lick yo chil'.
Submitter comment:
This is not a literal suggestion but means that one should
deal with personal matters privately and not let the whole
world be privy to your business.
Where learned: VIRGIN ISLANDS ; Saint Thomas
Keyword(s): an = and ; chile = child ; do = door ; lick = spank (punish) ; yo = your
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 03-00-1991
When yo' dig up ol' graves, dem smell stink.
Submitter comment:
When you bring up old grievances and quarrels you can expect
for the unpleasant results to arise as well.
Where learned: VIRGIN ISLANDS ; Saint Thomas
Keyword(s): dem = them ; ol'= old ; Yo = you
James Callow Keyword(s): OBSERVATION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 03-00-1991
If win' don' blow yo won' see foul under cloes.
Submitter comment:
You won't know the true circumstances until something
unexpected happens to upset the normal course of events.
Where learned: VIRGIN ISLANDS ; Saint Thomas
Keyword(s): cloes = clothes ; don' = don't ; win' = wind ; won' = won't ; Yo = you
James Callow Keyword(s): OBSERVATION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 03-00-1991
Autograph Rhyme
Each life's an album, every page
From fair haired youth to gray old age
Is writ in prose or story.
God grant your life and album be
Filled up with records good to see
The "finis" found in Glory.
Submitter comment:
Found in autograph book from the 1880's
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Keyword(s): AGE ; Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Elderly ; Glory ; Gray ; Old ; Record ; RHYME ; Signature ; Story ; VERSE ; Young ; YOUTH
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |