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DOWN IN THE VALLEY
DOWN IN THE VALLEY WHERE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS,/
THERE SAT DEBBIE AS
PRETTY AS A ROSE./ SHE SANG, SHE SANG SO SWEET,/ ALONG CAME PAUL AND
KISSED HER ON THE CHEEK.
Where learned: MARYGROVE COLLEGE ; TOLD AT
Keyword(s): PLAIN-JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 04-07-1970
In some small towns of Greece, it is believed that if an owl
appears at a house at night and "sings" someone in that house will
die.
Submitter comment:
My informant holds this superstition above all other
superstitions she believes in because when she was twelve she saw an
owl in her yard at some point in the evening and some weeks later her
mother became deathly ill. One year after that it is said that an owl
was seen on their rooftop and some months later her father passed
away.
Where learned: GREECE
Keyword(s): MYSTERIOUS ; unexplained
| Subject headings: | Observation Favorites BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00001946CA
SAILOR AND THE SEA
A SAILOR WENT TO SEA SEA SEA
TO SEE WHAT HE COULD SEE SEE SEE.
BUT ALL THAT HE COULD SEE SEE SEE
WAS THE BOTTOM OF THE DEEP BLUE SEA SEA SEA.
Submitter comment:
(NEIGHBORHOOD ROPE SKIPPING RHYME)
Where learned: informant's home
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 08-05-1964
Jump Rope Rhyme
I one the snake, I two the snake, I three the snake,
I four the snake, I five the snake, I six the snake, I
seven the snake, I ate the snake.
(child jumps at the chanting of each number until
the last when he bows out of the game in favour of another)
Data entry tech comment:
Informant learned from his childhood.
Where learned: ONTARIO ; TORONTO
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Rope Rhyme
I ate my peas with honey,
I've done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny
But it keeps them on the knife.
Submitter comment:
My niece says this is one of her
favorite rhymes at school.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; PLYMOUTH
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Downtown
I'm going downtown to smoke my pipe.
I won't be back till Saturday night.
I'll whip you blue, I'll whip you black.
Especialy you my daughter Sue.
(school jump rope rhyme)
Where learned: INFORMANT'S HOME
Keyword(s): PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump-rope rhyme
I asked my mother for 50 cents
to see the elephant jump the fence.
He jumped so high
he touched the sky
And didn't come down
til the fourth of July.
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Rope Jumping Rime
Jean, Jean, Jelly bean
Stuck her head in the washing machine
Her mother cried because she died
And that's the end of Jean, Jean, Jelly Bean
Data entry tech comment:
Informant learned this on the playground in Pittsburg, Penn.
Where learned: Foley Hall Univesity of Detroit
Keyword(s): PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse C760.560 |
Jump-Rope Rhyme: Johnny
Johnny over the ocean
Johnny ov the sea
Johnny broke a window
And blamed it all on me.
I told ma.
Ma told pa.
Johnny got a lickin', ha-ha-ha!
(jump the number of lickin's Johnny got.)
Data entry tech comment:
Informent and collector share the same surname and resident
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHARACTER PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Rope Rhyme
I like coffee
I like tea and
I like the boys
and they like me.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump-Rope Rhyme
DOWN IN THE VALLEY WHERE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS THERE SITS (NAME) AS SWEET AS A ROSE.
ALONG COMES (NAME), KISSED HER ON THE CHEEK
NOW SHE'S PUSHING BABY BUGGIES DOWN THE STREET.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-05-1969
Jump Rope Rhyme
I am a pretty little Dutch girl
As pretty as pretty can be.
And all the boys in the neighborhood
Are crazy over me.
My boyfriend's name is Tommy.
He comes from the land of salami.
With pickles on his nose and 5 black toes.
That's the way my story goes.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; PLAIN JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Rope Rhyme
Johnny over the ocean,
Johnny over the sea
Johnny broke a bottle
And blamed it all on me.
Where learned: ANN ARBOR
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; Jump ; Plain
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Rope Skipping Rhyme
I had a little teddy bear, his name was Tiny Tim
I put him the the bathtub to teach him how to swim
He drank up all the water, he ate up the soap
Hed died last night with a bubble in his throat
I called the doctor, I called the nurse,
I called the up the laday with the alligator purse.
Pencillin called the doctor, penicillin said the nurse,
Pencillin said the lady with the alligator purse.
Out went the doctor, out went the nurse,
Out went the lady with the alligator purse.
Where learned: From the children of her neighborhood.
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; Jump ; Plain
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Game Verse
Rope-jumping rime:"John and Mary sitting in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g,
first came love then came marriage then came John pushing a
baby carriage.
Data entry tech comment:
Collector and informant are the same person.
Where learned: DETROIT, MICHIGAN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump rope song
Ice cream, soda, ginger ale, pop
Tell me the intials of your sweetheart.
(Then stop at the initials as go throught the alphabet)
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): ENDURANCE ; Jump ; Plain
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Rope Rhyme
Jack and Mary sitting in a tree
K I S S I N G
Frist comes love then comes marriage
Than comes Mary with a baby carriage.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: At her home.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Rope Rhyme
I love coffee I love tea
Johnny broke the sugar bowl and blamed it on me
I told ma, ma told pa
Johnny got a licking, ha, ha, ha
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: TOLD AT INFORMANT'S HOME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Jump Rope Song
Its raining,
Its pouring,
The old man is snoring.
Where learned: At her home.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |