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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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Proverb
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Submitter comment:
Informant heard this in Norwalk, Ohio.
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James Callow comment:
Original Bn [V880] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
Keyword(s): Absence ; Absent ; Aphorism ; Apothegm ; DISTANCE ; Fond ; HEART ; LOVE ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; ROMANCE ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Proverb
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Submitter comment:
Learned from her mother.
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Where learned: OHIO ; WASHINGTON ; WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Loss ; LOST ; LOVE ; Loved ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Proverb
It is better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [V600] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Loss ; LOST ; LOVE ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Proverb
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Original BN [V700] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Loss ; LOVE ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Proverbial Saying
A dimple in your cheek,
Many hearts you will seek.
A dimple in your chin,
Many hearts you will win.
Submitter comment:
My grandmother used to tell me this because I have a dimple in
my chin, and did not like it.
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James Callow comment:
Puckett, Ohio, no. 12841: "A dimple on the chin, /
Many lovers you will win." -- Irish - Dutch - German informant.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROSEVILLE
Keyword(s): Apothegm ; Cheek ; Dimple ; LOVE ; Maxim ; PROVERB
| Subject headings: | Favorites Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Marriage |
Date learned: 00001950S
Language: Rhyme
Love Rhyme:
Remember the old, remember the new.
Remember the guy, who wrote "I Love You."
Submitter comment:
This rhyme was given to me by a grade school "boyfriend"
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Keyword(s): Language ; LOVE ; New ; Old ; Remember ; RHYME ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Verse
Album Rhyme:
Roses are red, violets are blue,
Lend me $10.00, and then I'll love you.
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Blue ; COLOR ; FLOWERS ; LOVE ; MONEY ; poem ; Red ; RHYME ; Roses ; Signature ; VERSE ; Violets
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Verse
Album Rhyme:
Roses love Sunshine, Violets love dew
Angels in heaven know I love you.
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Keyword(s): Album ; ANGELS ; AUTOGRAPH ; Devotion ; Dew ; FLOWERS ; LOVE ; poem ; RHYME ; Roses ; Signature ; Sunshine ; VERSE ; Violets
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Verse
Album Rhyme:
I love you little
I love you big
I love you like a little pig.
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Big ; Little ; LOVE ; Pig ; Piglet ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Verse
Album Rhyme:
Take a tip - dodge cupid's dart.
Don't let a soldier get your heart.
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Keyword(s): Album ; Aphorism ; AUTOGRAPH ; Cupid ; Dart ; HEART ; LOVE ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; Soldier ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Verse
Album Verse;
Read And That Do
This You I You
Straight Will Love Love
Down See You Me
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Down ; Form ; LOVE ; poem ; PUN ; RHYME ; Signature ; Straight ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Rhymes:
When you are very old and grat
I want you to remember the day
That I said you are my good friend.
Yours till the cows come home.
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Keyword(s): Age, Gray ; Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; COLOR ; Cows ; Devotion ; FRIENDSHIP ; Home ; LOVE ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Rhyme:
If you love me
Like I love you
No knife could cut
Our love in two.
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Cut ; Devotion ; KNIFE ; LOVE ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Verse:
Life is like a summer rose
That opens to the skies.
But there are shades of evening close
It is scattered on the ground to die.
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; DEATH ; Devotion ; Evening ; Ground ; LOVE ; poem ; RHYME ; Rose ; Signature ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Language
The eight secluded areas complete with love seats in a girl's dorm lounge are known as the "passion pits."
Submitter comment:
The college is Emory and Henry in Emory, Virginia and the dorm is Martha Washington
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Keyword(s): COLLEGE ; Dorm ; Dormitories ; Language ; Lounge ; Loveseat ; Nickname ; Passion ; Pit ; SLANG ; Vocabulary
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Place |
Language: Rhyme
Round is the ball
Which has no end
So is my love to
You my friend
Submitter comment:
Found in an autograph book from the 1880's
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Ball ; Devotion ; Friend ; Language ; LOVE ; RHYME ; ROUND ; Signature ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
IF YOU MARRY IN PINK
YOUR LOVE WILL STINK.
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Updated by TRD
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; LOVE ; Marry ; Pink ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; Stink ; SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
GERMAN SONG
DU, DU LIEGHT MIR IN HERZON.
DU, DU LIEGHT MIR IN HERZEN,
DU, DU LIEGST MIR IM SINN.
DU, DU MAEHST MIR VIEL SCHMER-ZEN,
WEIST NICHT WIE GUT ICH DIR BIN;
JA, JA, JA, JA WEIST NIGHT, WIE GUT ICH DIR BIN! MM
YOU, YOU ARE IN MY HEART.
YOU, YOU ARE IN MY HEART,
YOU, YOU ARE IN MY MIND.
YOU, YOU GIVE ME MUCH PAIN,
DON'T YOU KNOW HOW GOOD I AM TO YOU.
YES, YES, YES, YES DON'T YOU KNOW HOW GOOD I AM TO YOU!
Submitter comment:
FIRST VERSE OF TWO VERSES. SUNG WHILE A CHILD IN FREEPORT,
MINNESOTA (NEAR ST. CLOUD).
Data entry tech comment:
Keypunched by R.J.Miller 11/82
Updated by TRD 01/12
Where learned: MINNESOTA ; FREEPORT ; NEAR ST CLOUD
Keyword(s): GERMAN ; LOVE ; Lyrics ; Poetry ; RHYME ; SONG
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Love |
Date learned: 11-00-1971
GERMAN SONG
DU, DU LEAGST MIR IN HERTSAN
DU, DU LEAGST MIR IN SINN
DU, DU MACHTS MIR FIEL SMERTZEN.
WEISS NIHT WIE GUT ICHT DIR BINN
YA, YA, YA WEISS NICHT GUT ICHT DIR BINN.
DANN, DANN LIEBE AUCH DICH, DANN DANN
WOLL ICH SOLL GERNE DAS UNS DIE LIEBE VAIRINT. MM
YOU, YOU ARE IN MY HEART AGAIN.
YOU, YOU ARE IN MY MIND AGAIN.
YOU, YOU MAKE MUCH SORROW.
YOU DON'T KNOW HOW GOOD I AM TO YOU.
YES, YES YOU DON'T KNOW HOW GOOD I'VE BEEN.
THEN, THEN I LOVE YOU; THEN, THEN I WISH THAT OUR LOVE WOULD
UNITE.
Data entry tech comment:
Keypunched by R.J.Miller 11/82
Updated by TRD 01/12
Keyword(s): GERMAN ; LOVE ; Lyrics ; Poetry ; SONG
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Love |
Date learned: 09-00-1968
PROVERB
LOVE CAN'T BE BOUGHT AT THE MARKET.
Submitter comment:
THIS MEANS THAT YOU CAN'T BUY LOVE. IT MUST BE EARNED.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: NASHVILLE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Bought ; LOVE ; Market ; METAPHOR ; PROVERB ; Purchase
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |