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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.
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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
In the summer of 1816 there were frosts during each of the summer months in Hyde Park Vt. and much of the surrounding area. These frosts during the summer months discouraged many of the local farmers who abandoned their farms and moved westward. During the summer of 1816 a poem was written which is often recalled by Vermonters and printed in Vermont newspapers when the summers are unusually cool. The poem discourages people from leaving the area. the poem says:
"Moses saud we are to inhabit all the world, warmer climates lead to more vices, one doesn't change wives because of a wrinkle or farms because of a cold summer.
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Where learned: New York Folklore Quarterly ; Fitch Against Immigration
Keyword(s): AGRICULTURE ; Chill ; FARMING ; Frost ; HARVEST ; Hyde Park ; Language ; Moses ; poem ; Region ; SEASON ; Summer ; Summer ; Vermont ; WINTER ; Wives ; Wrinkle
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of time |
Language
Tongue Twister:
Blue bottom trousers, buttons made of brass, loose around the ankles tight around the ass. Ask me any questions surely I won't tell, if you don't believe me you can go to WELL...hello operator give me number nine; if the line is busy give me back my dime.
Other endings might be "you look like frankenstein" or any "-ine" ending.
Submitter comment:
He learned it in school when he was about 10 or 11
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James Callow comment:
Taste? Also, Verse?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Blue ; Button ; Dime ; GAME ; Jump Rope ; Language ; Operator ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; RHYME ; SONG ; TONGUE TWISTER ; Trousers ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Language: Rhyme
Hickup Hickup go away
Come again another day
Hickup Hickup when I bake
I'll bake you a CAKE
Submitter comment:
Pastime.
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James Callow comment:
Children sing this when they get the hiccups. Verse?
Original BN [C500, C730] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Keyword(s): Bake ; Cake ; CHILDREN ; GAME ; HICCUP ; Hickup ; Language ; Nursery ; RHYME ; SONG ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Childrens' Rhyme
Everyday we go to shop
At the bakery, I like to stop
And point my finger and say "let's try it."
But my mother replies, "You're on a diet."
Oh, how happy I will be
When Mother no longer says to me:
"You can't eat this, You can't eat that,
Cause this and that will make you fat."
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Bakery ; CHILDREN ; Eat ; Fat ; Language ; MOTHER ; RHYME ; Shop ; SONG ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
PRAYFULNESS INSURES A PLEASANT AND UP-RIGHTEOUS
CHILD.
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Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; BELZONI
Keyword(s): ; BELIEF ; CHILD ; Child Rearing ; Demeanor ; Pleasant ; PRAYER ; Prayfulness ; PREGNANCY ; RELIGION ; Righteous
James Callow Keyword(s): PERSONALITY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- P800 P800.542 |
THE MOTHER'S TEMPERAMENT DURING PREGNANCY WILL BE
REFLECTED IN THE CHILD'S PERSONALITY.
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Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; BELZONI
Keyword(s): BABY ; BELIEF ; CHILD ; Fetus ; Mom ; MOTHER ; PERSONALITY ; PREGNANCY ; Reflection ; Temperament ; TRANSFERENCE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 06-08-1973
BITING FINGERNAILS WHEN PREGNANT CAUSES THE BABY TO BE
STUBBORN.
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Where learned: MISSISSIPPI ; BELZONI
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; FINGERNAILS ; PREGNANCY ; Stubborn
James Callow Keyword(s): PERSONALITY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal BELIEF -- Birth |
Date learned: 09-13-1973
OYSTERS CAUSE PTOMAINE POISONING IN MONTHS WITHOUT AN "R".
Data entry tech comment:
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; Month ; Oysters ; poison
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- May CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- June CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- July CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- August BELIEF -- Measure of time Month BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
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NOBODY LOVES ME,
EVERYBODY HATES ME.
THINK I'LL EAT SOME WORMS!
BIG, FAT, JUICY ONES
LITTLE, SLIMY, SKINNY ONES
ROUND AND HAIRY WORMS!
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Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD
Keyword(s): CHILD ; CHILDREN ; KIDS ; RHYME ; SONG ; WORMS
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Hate |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
MARY MARGARET TRUMAN WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE PRESIDENT,
LA-DE-DA
SHE LIVED IN THE WHITE HOUSE WITH HER UGLY MOTHER BESS.
HER SOCIAL POSITION WAS NOT VERY HIGH
AND SHE WAS A MEMBER OF I PHELTA THIGH!
BACK IN 1952 WHEN HARRY GOT THE SHOE, LA-DE-DA
THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT FOR MARY MARGARET TO DO.
SO SHE WENT TO MISSOURI TO WORK IN A BREWERY
SO DRINK MORE BEER!
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): DRINKING SONG ; PRESIDENT ; RHYME ; Sorority ; TOAST ; Truman
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ill humor Ridicule Mockery |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
I HAD A LITTLE CHICKEN WHO WOULDN'T LAY AN EGG
SO I RUBBED HOT WATER UP AND DOWN HER LEG.
THE LITTLE CHICKEN CRIED
AND THE LITTLE CHICKEN BEGGED
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Chicken ; CHILD ; CHILDREN ; Children's Song ; Egg ; Hard Boiled ; Kid ; RHYME ; SONG
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
ONE, TWO, THREE
TICKA, TOCKA, TEE
SING A SONG FOR ---- (NAME)
SING A SONG FOR ME!
Data entry tech comment:
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): CHILDREN ; Children's Song ; RHYME ; SONG
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
JUST PLANT A WATERMELON ON MY GRAVE
AND LET THE JUICE SLIP THROUGH.
JUST PLANT A WATERMELON ON MY GRAVE
THAT'S ALL I ASK OF YOU!
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Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD
Keyword(s): CHILDREN ; Children's Song ; Grave ; Juice ; RHYME ; Watermelon
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
"I'M A NUT"
LITTLE ACORN FAT AND ROUND
LAYING ON THE COLD, COLD GROUND
EVERYBODY STEPS ON ME
THAT'S WHY I'M CRACKED YOU SEE!
I'M A NUT (CLAP, CLAP)
I'M A NUT (CLAP, CLAP)
I'M A GREAT (CLAP, CLAP)
BIG NUT (CLAP, CLAP).
Data entry tech comment:
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Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD
Keyword(s): Acorn ; Children's Song ; NUT ; RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
"HANGMAN"
HANGMAN, HANGMAN SLACK YOUR ROPE.
HANGMAN, HANGMAN SLACK YOUR ROPE.
SLACK IT FOR A K-K-K-K- ( SOUND AS IF CHOKING).
Data entry tech comment:
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Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD
Keyword(s): Children's Song ; Hangman ; RHYME ; Rope ; SONG
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
EDDIE-COOCHA-CACHA-GAMMA
TOASTA-NARA-TOASTA-NOVA.
SAMMY-WAMMY-WAAACKI BROWN
FELL INTO THE WELL AND DROWN(ED).
Data entry tech comment:
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Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD
Keyword(s): Children's Song ; RHYME ; SONG ; Well
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
I LIKE COFFEE,
I LIKE TEA,
I WANT ------(NAME)
TO JUMP WITH ME!
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD
Keyword(s): Coffee ; Jump Rope ; JUMP ROPE RHYME ; poem ; RHYME ; SONG ; TEA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
Entertainment: Song
Way down South when I was born
They raised the cotton and the corn
Ke-mo ky-mo dar-o whack
Hike ta-mo Hoke ta-mo
Ring dum pop-a-didle
In step sally winkle
Nip cat penny winkle
Sing a song of kitchi-katchi ky-me-oh
Submitter comment:
Source: my grandmother who says it is a family song learned in 1880.
Data entry tech comment:
Entry by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; BEDFORD COUNTY
Keyword(s): Entertainment ; MUSIC ; RHYME ; Slave ; SONG ; South ; WORK
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Song |