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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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Autograph Verse
Album Verse:
Truth is such a precious thing
We should all conserve in it's use.
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Keyword(s): Aphorism ; AUTOGRAPH ; Signature ; TRUTH ; VERSE
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Rhyme:
Mary had a little watch
She swallowed it one day
She took a dose of castor oil
Just to pass the time away.
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; CASTOR OIL ; EUPHEMISM ; Mary ; parody of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; Tune ; VERSE ; Watch
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Rhyme:
When evening pulls its curtains,
and pins it with a sstar,
Remember you have a friend indeed,
no matter where you are.
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Curtains ; Devotion ; DISTANCE ; Evening ; Friend ; Night ; Pin ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; Sky ; Star ; VERSE
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Rhyme:
When years and montyhs have glided by
And on this page you cast your eye,
Remember it was a friend sincere
That left this kind remembrance here.
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Devotion ; FRIENDSHIP ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Album Rhyme:
Roses are Red
Violets are Black
You'd look better
With a knife in your back
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Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; Back ; Black ; COLOR ; ENEMY ; FLOWERS ; KNIFE ; poem ; Red ; RHYME ; Roses ; Signature ; VERSE ; VERSE ; Violets
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Language: Rhyme
I wish you luck
I wish you joy.
I wish you first a baby boy
And when his hair begins to curl
I wish you then a baby girl.
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; BABY ; Boy ; Curl ; Girl ; HAIR ; Language ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE ; WISH
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Language: Rhyme
When you get married and have twins
Don't come to me for safety pins.
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; BABY ; Language ; Pins ; poem ; RHYME ; SAFETY ; Signature ; TWINS ; VERSE
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Language: Rhyme
Verse:
Forget me not
Forget me never
Till yonder sun
Has set forever.
Submitter comment:
Found in an autograph book from the 1880's
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Devotion ; FORGET ; Language ; poem ; RHYME ; SENTIMENT ; Set ; Signature ; Sun ; VERSE
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Language: Rhyme
When this you see remember me
And take a little catnip tea.
Submitter comment:
From autograph book of the 1880's
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Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; Catnip ; Devotion ; Language ; poem ; Remember ; RHYME ; Signature ; TEA ; VERSE
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Language: Rhyme
While rocks and hills divide us,
And you no more I see
Just take your pen and paper,
And write a line to me.
Submitter comment:
Found in an autograph book from the 1880's
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; DISTANCE ; Hills ; Language ; Paper ; Pen ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
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 |
Autograph Rhyme
This is another album full of leaves of snowy white, where no name is ever tarnighed but forever here and bright. In the book of life, God's Album, may your name be found with care, and may all who here have written, Have their names forever there.
Submitter comment:
Found in autograph book from the 1880's
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Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; BOOK ; God ; LIFE ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Salutation
Yours till the ocean wears rubber pants to keep its bottom dry.
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James Callow comment:
Leave-Talking?
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Devotion ; Farewell ; Ocean ; Pants ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Rubber ; Salutation ; Signature ; WORDPLAY
Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
2 (TOO) SWEET
2 (TO) BE
________
4 (FORGOTTEN) GOTTEN
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Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; RHYME ; Signature
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
ROSES ARE RED,
VIOLETS ARE BLUE,
YOUR NOSE LOOKS LIKE A B-52.
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Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD
Keyword(s): Autograph Rhyme ; B-52 ; Blue ; COLOR ; FLOWERS ; NOSE ; poem ; Red ; RHYME ; Roses ; Signature ; Violets
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
Autograph Rhyme
When distant lands divide us and you no more see me,
Remember 'twas Maude that penned these lines to thee.
Submitter comment:
From autograph book of Mrs. J.E. Moore
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
May every blessing God can give bring peace around you while you live
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
If ever this book should travel to Rome,
Give it a kick and send it home.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; BOOK ; RHYME ; Rome ; Signature ; VERSE
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
May the Angels twine for thee, a rope of immortality.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): ANGELS ; AUTOGRAPH ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
FLY LEAF VERSE
STEAL NOT THIS BOOK FOR FEAR OR SHAME,
CAUSE YOU KNOW CYNTHIA COLEMAN IS NOT YOUR NAME,
CAUSE WHEN YOU DIE GOD WILL SAY
WHERE IS THAT BOOK YOU STOLE THAT DAY/
AND WHEN YOU REPLY, "I DO NOT KNOW,"
GOD WILL SAY, "TO HELL YOU GO".
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Where learned: LOUISIANA ; New Orleans
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Wisecracks, Gags, Silly Insults |
Date learned: CA11001973