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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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Entertainment: Games
Jump Rope Song:
Two, Four, Six, Eight, teacher's got a bellyache.
Submitter comment:
The informant learned it from a friend
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [C570] crossed out. Replaced with current classification
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHILD ; CHILDHOOD ; Entertainment ; GAMES ; Play ; RHYME ; SONG
| Subject headings: | -- .C750560 |
Entertainment: Games
Jump Rope Song:
Two, four, six, eight, time to transubstantiate.
Submitter comment:
The informant learned it from neighborhood friends
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [C570] crossed out. replaced with current classification
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHILD ; CHILDREN ; Diversion ; Entertainment ; GAME ; RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Entertainment: Games
Jump Rope Song:
Catch me, Catch me, Catch me if you can.
Submitter comment:
The informant learned it from the neighborhood kids
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [C570] crossed out. Replaced with C750.560
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHILD ; CHILDHOOD ; Diversion ; Entertainment ; Play
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Entertainment: Game
Method of Choosing "IT":
To choose an "it," all of the players put both feet in a circle and let one person say; "engine, engine, number nine; going down Chicago Line; If the train falls off the track, do you want your money back?" The person could then respond Yes or No. The choice he picked is the number of feet more the count is advanced - (yes=3, no=no) and that person is excluded. This keeps up until only one is left.
Submitter comment:
The informant learned it from his buddies.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [C570] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHILDHOOD ; Diversion ; Elimination ; Entertainment ; GAME ; Play
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Entertainment: Game
Jump Rope Song:
Changing Bedrooms Number 1/ Changing Bedrooms Number 2/ Changing Bedrooms Number 3/ Changing Bedrooms Number 4/ Changing Bedrooms Number 5/ etc. etc.
Two people are jumping at opposite sides of the rope. They must switch places on every number.
Submitter comment:
Informant learned it from her friends.
Data entry tech comment:
motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [C570] crossed out/replaced with current classification
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): CHILD ; Entertainment ; GAMES ; Jump Rope ; Play ; RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Entertainment: Game
Jump Rope Song:
Cinderella, dressed in yella,
went upstairs to kiss a fella
how many kisses did she receive?
(Hot pepper count until she misses)
Submitter comment:
The informant learned it from the neighborhood kids.
Data entry tech comment:
motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [C570] crossed out/ replaced with current classification
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): Entertainment ; GAMES ; Jump Rope ; Play
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse C750 .560 |
Entertainment: Game
Jump Rope Song:
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, go upstairs / Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, say your prayers / Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn out the light / Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, say goodnight.
Submitter comment:
The informant learned it from her friends.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN crossed out / Replaced with C750.560
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): CHILD ; Diversion ; Entertainment ; GAME ; Jump Rope ; Play
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Entertainment: Game
Jump Rope Song:
Not last night, but the night before, 24 robbers came knocking at my door. I went out (jump out of rope) to let them in (jump back in) and here's what they said to me:
"Spanish Dancer do the kicks, kicks, kicks, kicks, (jump with legs far apart)
Spanish Dancer do the splits, splits, splits, splits, (jump up with legs extended)
Spanish Dancer turn around, round, round, (turn rope)
Spanish Dancer Touch the ground, ground, ground. (touch the ground)
Submitter comment:
The informant learned it from the neighborhood kids
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [C570] crossed out. Replaced with current classification
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): CHILDREN ; Entertainment ; GAMES ; Jump Rope ; Play ; RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Entertainment: Game
Jump Rope Song:
Mable, Mable, set the table. Don't forget the salt, but don't forget the red hot peppers. (when "red peppers" is said, the rope is spun faster.)
Submitter comment:
The informant learned it from neighborhood kids.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [C570] crossed out / replaced with current classification
Keyword(s): CHILD ; CHILDREN ; Diversion ; Entertainment ; GAME ; Jump Rope ; Play ; RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Entertainment: Game
Jump Rope Song:
High, Low, Jolly Pepper / Splits, Kicks, Touch the ground.
High - Regular Turns
Low - must jump in squatting position
Jolly - Turn round and round
Peppers - turn rope very fast
Splits - Jump with legs apart
Kicks - Kick as you jump
Touch - Touch the ground with one hand
Ground - Touch the ground with both hands
Whichever one you miss on, the next person must do it.
Submitter comment:
The informant learned it from the neighborhood kids.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [C570] crossed out. Replaced with Current Classification
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): Entertainment ; EXERCISE ; GAMES ; Jump Rope ; Pastime ; RHYME ; SONG
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Entertainment: Game
Jump Rope Rhyme:
Fudge, Fudge, Call the Judge / Moms Gonna Have a Baby / Not a Boy, Not a Girl / Just a Plain Ole Baby.
Submitter comment:
The informant learned it from the neighborhood kids
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [C570] crossed out. Replaced with Current Classification
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): Entertainment ; EXERCISE ; GAME ; Jump ; Jump Rope ; Pastime ; Play ; RHYME ; Rope ; SONG
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Proverb
Arabian Saying (Translated):
The carpenter's door is broken.
Submitter comment:
When one can't handle his own problems, especially in his expert field: ie - The tailor has poor clothes.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [V400] crossed out. Replaced wtih current classification.
Keyword(s): ; Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Arabian ; Carpenter ; Door ; ETHNIC ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; Skill ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Entertainment: Song
Hush-A-Bye:
Hush a bye, don't you cry, go to sleep little baby.
When you wake, you will find, all the pretty little horses.
Black ones and bays, white ones and grays, all the pretty little horses.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Keyword(s): BABY ; Bay ; Black ; COLOR ; Dapple ; Entertainment ; Gray ; HORSE ; LULLABY ; SONG ; White
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Entertainment: Games
Chant From Calling In People Who Are Still Hidden in Hide and Seek:
"Come in oh, Come in, oh; If you don't come in, you're it."
Submitter comment:
The informant learned it from his friends.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [C570] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHANT ; CHILD ; CHILDHOOD ; CHILDREN ; Diversion ; Entertainment ; GAME ; Play ; RHYME
| Subject headings: | -- .C750520 |
Expression
Paint the town red, or, go out on the town.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ;
Keyword(s): COLOR ; Entertainment ; Expression ; Language ; Out ; Paint ; Red ; Saying ; Term ; Town
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Entertainment: Song
Song:
I gave my love a cherry that had no stone.
I gave my love a chicken that had no bone.
I gave my love a ring that had no end.
I gave my love a baby with no crying.
How can there be a cherry that has no stone?
How can there be a chicken that has no bone?
How can there be a ring that has no end?
How can there be a baby with no crying?
A cherry when it's bloomin', has no stone.
A chicken when it's pippin', it has no bone.
A ring when it's rollin', it has no end.
A baby when it's sleeping, has no crying.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): BABY ; Blooming ; Bone ; Cherry ; Chicken ; CRYING ; Entertainment ; Folksong ; MUSIC ; Pippin ; RHYME ; RING ; Rolling ; Sleeping ; SONG ; STONE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Love |
Entry filtered.
Entertainment: Song
Jump-Rope Game:
'Double Dutch'
As two people throw two ropes simultaneously in opposite directions, a third person tries to jump both ropes. There is no rhyme to accompany the skipping. It's hard enough to concentrate on the jumping.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Double ; DUTCH ; Entertainment ; GAME ; Jump ; Jump Rope ; Rope ; SONG
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement |
Language: Rhyme
School's out! School's out!
Teacher wore her paddle out!
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Entertainment ; Paddle ; RHYME ; SCHOOL ; TEACHER ; Vacation
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Language: Rhyme
Ridicule Rhyme:
Tattle Tale, Tattle Tale
Hang your britches on a nail,
Hang them high, hang them low,
Hang them in a picture show.
Hang them 'till your fanny shows.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): BRITCHES ; Entertainment ; Fanny ; Hang ; High ; Language ; Low ; Nail ; Picture Show ; rat ; RHYME ; RIDICULE ; Tattle Tale
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |