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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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Autograph Rhyme
Autograph Book Rhyme:
Don't steal this book, my honest friend, for fear the gallows be your end. And when you die the Lord shall say, "Where is the book you wtole away?" But if you cannot tell, the Lord shall cast you into hell. Whoever steals this book of knowledge, will sweetly graduate from Sing-Sing College.
Submitter comment:
The autograph book this is taken from is collected from the years 1929-1933.
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BN [C760] is crossed out and the word FlyLeaf is written next to it.
Submission card located in a pile marked [?]
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; BOOK ; Glanshaw
Keyword(s): AFTERLIFE ; AUTOGRAPH ; FlyLeaf ; HELL ; Judgment ; PRISON ; RHYME ; VERSE
James Callow Keyword(s): FlyLeaf
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse |
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Maxim
Your chances of succeeding are about equal to that of a snowball's in Hell.
Submitter comment:
When I was trying to figure out how I could finance a car in high school, so I discussed it with my Dad. A very short discussion. (see above!)
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Original BN [V300] is crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Dup. of WPP
Where learned: BOSTON ; Massachusetts
Keyword(s): CHANCE ; HELL ; Maxim ; METAPHOR ; PROVERB ; SNOW ; Snowball ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Toast
Irish Drinking Toast:
May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you are dead.
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Keyword(s): DEVIL ; DRINKING ; ETHNIC ; HEAVEN ; HELL ; Irish ; Jest ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
An Irish Toast:
May you be in heaven half an hour before the Devil knows your dead.
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Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DEATH ; DEVIL ; DRINKING ; ETHNIC ; HEAVEN ; HELL ; Irish ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
Here's to all that wish me well, All the rest can go to Hell!
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Keyword(s): DRINKING ; HELL ; Social ; TOAST ; Well
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
We drink to those who wish us well, and all the rest can go to Hell!
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DRINKING ; HELL ; Social ; TOAST ; Well
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
Here's to all that wish me well. All the rest can go to the Devil.
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Keyword(s): DEVIL ; DRINKING ; HELL ; Social ; TOAST ; Well
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
Here's to you and here's to me / May we never disagree / But if we do (to Hell with you!) / And here's to me.
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Original BN [C702] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Keyword(s): DRINKING ; HELL ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Retort
That'll be a cold day in hell.
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The word retort is circled, and the question [To What?] is written next to it.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Cold ; COMEBACK ; HELL ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; TEMPERATURE ; Wisecrack
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Retort
When someone says "Go to Hell!"
Retort: "I've been there but I got kicked out for peddling water."
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Keyword(s): COMEBACK ; HELL ; INSULT ; RETORT ; SARCASM ; WATER ; Wisecrack
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Proverb
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
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Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; HELL ; Intent ; Intention ; Maxim ; PAVED ; PROVERB ; Road ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Song: Parody
FOUND A PEANUT
FOUND A PEANUT
FOUND A PEANUT JUST NOW
JUST NOW I FOUND A PEANUT
FOUND A PEANUT JUST NOW.
CRACKED IT OPEN
CRACKED IT OPEN
CRACKED IT OPEN JUST NOW
JUST NOW CRACKED IT OPEN
CRACKED IT OPEN JUST NOW.
FOUND IT ROTTEN
FOUND IT ROTTEN
FOUND IT ROTTEN JUST NOW
JUST NOW FOUND IT ROTTEN
FOUND IT ROTTEN JUST NOW.
ATE IT ANYWAY
ATE IT ANYWAY
ATE IT ANYWAY JUST NOW
JUST NOW I ATE IT ANYWAY
ATE IT ANYWAY JUST NOW
GOT SICK
GOT SICK
GOT SICK JUST NOW
JUST NOW I GOT SICK
GOT SICK JUST NOW.
CALLED A DOCTOR
CALLED A DOCTOR
CALLED A DOCTOR JUST NOW
JUST NOW I CALLED A DOCTOR
CALLED A DOCTOR JUST NOW.
SAID I WOULDN'T DIE
SAID I WOULDN'T DIE
SAID I WOULD'T DIE JUST NOW
JUST NOW HE SAID I WOULDN'T DIE
SAID I WOULDN'T DIE JUST NOW.
DIED ANYWAY
DIED ANYWAY
DIED ANYWAY JUST NOW
JUST NOW I DIED
DIED ANYWAY JUST NOW.
WENT TO HEAVEN
WENT TO HEAVEN
WENT TO HEAVEN JUST NOW
JUST NOW I WENT TO HEAVEN
WENT TO HEAVEN JUST NOW.
PLAYED THE HARP
PLAYED THE HARP
PLAYED THE HARP JUST NOW
JUST NOW I PLAYED THE HARP
PLAYED THE HARP JUST NOW.
BROKE A STRING
BROKE A STRING
BROKE A STRING JUST NOW
JUST NOW I BROKE A STRING
BROKE A STRING JUST NOW.
WENT DOWN
WENT DOWN
WENT DOWN JUST NOW
JUST NOW I WENT DOWN
WENT DOWN JUST NOW
SHOVELED COAL
SHOVELED COAL
SHOVELED COAL JUST NOW
JUST NOW I SHOVELED COAL
SHOVELED COAL JUST NOW.
BURNT MY FINGER
BURNT MY FINGER
BURNT MY FINGER JUST NOW
JUST NOW I BURNT MY FINGER
BURNT MY FINGER JUST NOW.
THE END
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PROBABLY TO THE TUNE OF " MY DARLING CLEMENTINE "
Updated / 02-24-2011 / TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; STERLING
Keyword(s): CHIASMUS ; COAL ; DEATH ; Doctors ; FOOD ; HARP ; HEAVEN ; HELL ; MUSIC ; NUT ; Peanut ; REPETITION ; SATIRE ; SHOVELING
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR.
Jump Rope Rhyme
Blue Bells, Cockle shells,
Evy, Ivy Over
First comes love
Then comes marriage,
Here comes (name of jumper) with a baby carriage.
(For blue bells to ive - the rope swings back and forth, the jumper jumping over it. On over, the regular turning begins.)
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): BABY ; Blue Bells ; Carriage ; Cockle Shells ; Entertainment ; GAME ; Ivy ; Jump ; Jump Rope ; Language ; MARRIAGE ; RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Custom
Grammaw's Average Day:
"...go milk the cow and put the milk in the springhouse...churn sum buttermilk 'n make the butter...'n make a batch of hominy...rest a little whilst shelling peas...hoe and weed the garden 'n carry sum vegetables back to the cabin...take sic Mandy Lou sum soup on the next farm 'n gather sum herbs to doctor wid later on...shell sum butterbeans...gather sum pears 'n make sum preserves...git the aigs outta the nests 'n get the goat outta the garden...cook three meals a day."
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; Boiling and Baking ; Booger Hollow
Keyword(s): ; Average ; Beans ; Chores ; CUSTOM ; Day ; Domestic ; Excerpt ; FARMING ; GARDEN ; Goat ; Grandma ; Narrative ; Peas ; Prose ; Shell ; Story ; VEGETABLE ; WORK
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time Routine activity |
There once was a professor who was very abrasive in dealing with the students. IOne day he even told one student to go to hell. Well, the student went to Dr. Payne and told him about it..."why he even told me to go to hell!" Dr. Payne replied: "well, if I were you, I wouldn't do it."
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): HELL ; JOKE ; Professor ; Student ; Tale
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Lie Tall tale |
BELIEF
ALWAYS CRUSH EGG SHELLS COMPLETELY BEFORE THROWING THEM AWAY.
IF YOU DON'T THE SHELL HALVES WILL PROVIDE A SHELTER FOR
DANGEROUS SPIRITS.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BLOOMFIELD
Keyword(s): Eggs ; GHOST ; Shells ; SPIRIT ; SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Animal product Egg BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
ORIGIN OF THE JACK O LANTERN
A BOY NAMED JACK WANTED TO GO TO HEAVEN, BUT HIS CONSCIENCE
WOULD NOT LET HIM. SO JACK WANTED TO GET INTO HELL, BUT SINCE
HE PLAYED TRICKS AND JOKES, THE DEVIL WOULD NOT LET HIM IN.
SO JACK HAD TO ROAM THE EARTH FOR ALL TIME, CARRYING
A LANTERN. THEREFORE PEOPLE HAVE CALLED HIM, JACK O LANTERN.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ALPENA
Keyword(s): ETYMOLOGY ; HALLOWEEN ; HELL ; Jack O lantern" Heaven ; Lantern ; Origin ; Pumpkin
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Explanation of a name |
Date learned: 10-04-1970
VERSE
THE GUYS WERE PLAYING FOOTBALL,
OUT IN THE YARD,
JESUS PLAYING QUARTERBACK,
MOSES PLAYING GUARD.
THE ANGELS GAVE A GREAT BIG YELL,
WHEN JESUS SCORED A TOUCHDOWN
AGAINST THE GUYS FROM HELL.
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Where learned: WASHINGTON ; WASHINGTON DC
Keyword(s): ANTHROPOMORPHISM ; BIBLICAL ; Football ; God ; HELL ; JESUS ; METAPHOR ; Moses ; RELIGION ; RHYME: ABCDED
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Tale |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR