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AUTOGRAPH BOOK RHYME (COLLECTOR'S TITLE) ; WISECRACKS, GAGS, SILLY STORIES, INSULTS (CLASSIFIER'S TITLE)
DOESN'T IT GET YOUR NANNY,/ DOESN'T IT GET YOUR GOAT,
WHEN YOU'RE IN THE BATHTUB,/ AND CAN'T FIND THE SOAP.
Submitter comment: FROM INFORMANT'S JUNIOR HIGH AUTUGRAPH BOOK, 1929-1933
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; GLENSHAW
Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; BATHTUB VERSE ; IMPERFECT RHYME ; RHYME: ABCB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 00001929-1933 ; 10-02-1971
AUTOGRAPH VERSE
REMEMBER A
REMEMBER B
BUT C THAT U
REMEMBER ME.
Submitter comment: FOUND IN INFORMANT'S AUTOGRAPH BOOK
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ADVICE:POSITIVE ; FRIENDSHIP ; IAMBIC DIMETER ; RHYME: ABCB ; TYPOGRAPHICAL VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Remember me |
Date learned: 10-08-1965
AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION
ON THE SHORES OF GICHIGOMI,
COME ON BY AND SOCK-IT-TO-ME.
U R A Q T
I N V U
Submitter comment:
UNDATED ENTRY IN KATHY CRACCHIOLO'S AUTOGRAPH BOOK
KEPT IN ST. CLAIR SHORES MICH. IN 1968
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
Keyword(s): PARODY OF HIAWATHA ; TROCHAIC TETRAMETER ; TYPOGRAPHICAL VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Translations, plays on words, symbol writing |
Date learned: 02-27-1971 ; 00-00-1968
AUTOGRAPH- VERSE
REMEMBER M
REMEMBER E
PUT THEM TOGETHER , REMEMBER ME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ADVICE:POSITIVE ; FRIENDSHIP ; RHYME: ABCB ; TYPOGRAPHICAL VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Remember me |
Date learned: 10-05-1971
PROSE AUTOGRAPH MATERIAL
U R
2 SWEET
2 BE
4 GOTTEN
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DIGITAL SPELLING ; FRIENDSHIP ; TYPOGRAPHICAL VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Translations, plays on words, symbol writing |
Date learned: 10-30-1971
NONE
I SEE YOU IN THE OCEAN,
I SEE YOU IN THE SEA,
I SEE YOU IN THE BATHTUB,
OOPS } PARDON ME }
Submitter comment: ENTRY DATED 03181960 IN HER AUTOGRAPH BOOK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE WOODS
Keyword(s): BATHTUB VERSE. ; INCREMENTS REPITION ; NUDITY ; RHYME: ABCB
James Callow Keyword(s): ITERATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 10-22-1971
AUTOGRAPH ITEM
READ SEE HOW HOPE YOU
UP WILL MUCH I LIKE
AND YOU I AND
DOWN AND LIKE YOU ME
Submitter comment:
THIS ITEM WAS WRITTEN IN THE AUTOGRAPH BOOK OF
COLETTE BY A SCHOOLMATE.
Where learned: LOCATION NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
Keyword(s): FRIENDSHIP ; RHYME ABCB ; TYPOGRAPHICAL VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Reading or writing backwards, upside down |
Date learned: 10-08-1967
AUTOGRAPH VERSE
ALWAYS THE SAME AS B/4
1939 BIRCH TREE, MO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
Keyword(s): DIGITAL VERSE ; FRIENDSHIP ; PAST ; REMEMBERANCE ; TYPOGRAPHICAL VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Translations, plays on words, symbol writing |
Date learned: 03-01-1972
LEGEND
THERE IS A STORY THAT ON KELLY'S ISLAND IN OHIO WHEN IN THE EARLY
1800'S THE CEMETERY WAS FIRST BEGINNING TO BE FIXED, SOMEHOW ONE
OF THE MEN WORKING ON THIS AREA GOT INTO A FIGHT WITH HIS BOSS AND
IN HIS ANGER HE SAID THAT HE WAS GLAD HE WASN'T GOING TO BE BURIED
IN THAT PLACE.
A FEW MONTHS LATER THIS SAME MAN WAS WORKING ON A HOUSE THAT FELL
ON HIM. HE WAS THE FIRST TO BE BURIED AT THE CEMETERY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST ; FALSE ASSUMPTION. ASSUMPTION PROVES FALSE. ; IRONY ; PROPHECY REVERSED. WISH REVERSED. OPPOSITE COMES TRUE. ; TEMPTING FATE
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 11-04-1967
TEN LITTLE INDIANS
ONE LITTLE, TWO LITTLE, THREE LITTLE
INDIANS
FOUR LITTLE, FIVE LITTLE, SIX LITTLE
INDIANS
SEVEN LITTLE, EIGHT LITTLE, NINE LITTLE
INDIANS
TEN LITTLE INDIAN BOYS.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): COUNTING OUT VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse C750.534 |
Date learned: 00-00-1958
ENVELOPE MESSAGE
D. D. L. D. S. D. B.
DELIVER 'DE LETTER, 'DE SOONER 'DE BETTER.
Submitter comment: INITIALS ARE PLACED ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE ENVELOPE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN
Keyword(s): TYPOGRAPHICAL VERSE ABBREVIATION
| Subject headings: | -- |
Date learned: 10-15-1965
ENVELOPE MESSAGE
>. W. A. K. SEALED WITH A KISS
Submitter comment: THE INITIALS ARE PLACED ON THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN
Keyword(s): TYPOGRAPHICAL VERSE ABBREVIATION LOVE LETTERS
| Subject headings: | -- |
Date learned: 10-02-1965
IF MEN CAN FLY THE SKY LIKE BIRDS,
IF MEN CAN SWIM THE SEA LIKE FISH- -
WHY CAN'T MEN WALK THE EARTH LIKE MEN.
Data entry tech comment: COLLECTOR'S LINE DIVISIONS CHANGED BY KEYPUNCHER
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT, ASSUMED ; THEOLOGY
Keyword(s): AIRPLANES ; ALLITERATION. ; BOATS ; VERSE.
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
PROVERB
LARGER SHIPS
MAY VENTURE MORE.
LITTLE BOATS
MUST STAY NEAR SHORE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION FOR CONTRAST ; CONTRAST ; RIME ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb |
Date learned: 07-17-1964
2Y'S U R
2 Y'S U B
I C U R
2 Y'S 4 ME
Where learned: NORTH DAKOTA
James Callow Keyword(s): DIGITAL VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse C730.326 Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C930 C930.328 |
AUTOGRAPH BOOK
ROSES ARE RED . VIOLETS ARE BLUE. MY HEART PANTS FOR YOU.
Submitter comment:
MARY TOLD ME THAT IN THE PLACE OF THE WORDS HEART AND PANTS, THEY
WOULD DRAW A PICTURE OF A HEART AND A PAIR OF PANTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
James Callow Keyword(s): PICTOGRAPHIC VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse |
Date learned: 00001930S
AUTOGRAPH BOOK MATERIAL
WHEN YOU ARE BATHING IN A TUB
THINK OF ME BETWEEN EACH RUB.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): HUMOROUS REQU&ST ; RHYMING COUPLET
James Callow Keyword(s): BATHTUB VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Humorous allusion to love |
Date learned: 10-15-1926
APPRECIATION OF FRIENDS
IT IS EVIDENT THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES,
HOW SWEET AND SOUR OUR LIVES CAN BE.
BUT IF WE COULD LOVE AS WELL AS WE HATE,
WHAT FEW TROUBLES WOULD BE LEFT TO SEE.
FOR JOYS WOULD RESULT WITH NO SORROWS FELT,
THUS LEAVING OUR HEARTS SO EASY TO MELT.
Keyword(s): ADVICE ; ASSONANCE ; CONTRAST ; FREE VERSE ; HATE ; INFORMATIVE ; LOVE ; METAPHOR ; RHYME: ABCBEE ; SERIOUSNESS
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Tender sentiment |
Date learned: 00-00-1959
IF A BLACK CAT CROSSES YOUR PATH, TAKE FOUR STEPS
BACKWARD AND TURN AROUND; THIS GETS RID OF THE BAD LUCK THE
CAT PASSED ON TO YOU.
Submitter comment: TRANSFER
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; PITTSBURGH
James Callow Keyword(s): REVERSE DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | 686 Fourths / Quarters BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Conversions Animals |
Religious Verse
Men's book with heaps of chaff are stored
God's book doth "golden grains" afford.
Then leave the chaff and spend thy pains
In gathering up thy golden grains.
Submitter comment:
Found in an autograph book from 1880's
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Keyword(s): Chaff ; God ; Golden ; Grain ; Language ; Man ; RELIGION ; RHYME ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |