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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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Verse
You want a penny? Go kiss Jack Benny.
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Verse?
Where learned: HONORS HOUSE
Keyword(s): Jack Benny ; KISS ; MONEY ; Penny ; RHYME ; Saying ; SLANG ; TAUNT ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Verse
"Surprise" Verse:
Question: Inchme and Pinchme were walking across the bridge. Inchme fell in. Who was left?
Answer: Pinchme. (At this, the person who responded recieves a pinch.)
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Informant learned this through experience during childhood - Plymouth MI, 1940's.
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Not Verse?
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Answer ; Inch ; JOKE ; Language ; Pinch ; PRACTICAL JOKE ; QUESTION ; RHYME ; SURPRISE ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Verse
Narrative Verse: (Circular):
That's Tough! What's Tough?
Life. What's Life? A Magazine.
How much? 10 cents. Only have 5cents.
That's Though! What's Tough?
Life. What's Life? A Magazine.
How Much? 10 cents. Only have 5.
That's Tough! etc.etc.
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Really a Verse?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): A Round ; Answer ; Circular ; GAME ; Language ; LIFE ; MAGAZINE ; MONEY ; QUESTION ; Tough ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Retort
Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.
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Keyword(s): Language ; NAMES ; RETORT ; RHYME ; Sticks ; STONES ; TAUNT ; Tease ; VERSE
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Belief: Medical
Stand in front of house after losing baby tooth and repeat three times:
Little Mouse Little Mouse
Give me an iron tooth
For this bone tooth.
Then the tooth is thrown over the house in hope that new tooth is stronger.
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Verse?
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): BABY ; BELIEF ; Dentist ; House ; MEDICAL ; Mouse ; SUPERSTITION ; TEETH ; Tooth ; VERSE
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Saying
Format for answering telephone:
"Barker's Morgue, you stab 'em, we slab 'em."
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Where learned: WORK
Keyword(s): JOKE ; Morgue ; Saying ; Slab ; Stab ; TELEPHONE ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
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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 |
Verse in Formula
I was told to cheer up;
"Things could be worse"
So I cheered up,
And sure'nuff, things got worse.
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Keyword(s): ; Cheer UP ; Formula ; Language ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; RHYME ; VERSE ; Worse
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Autograph Rhyme
When distant lands divide us and you no more see me,
Remember 'twas Maude that penned these lines to thee.
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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
Remember when you are married and living at your ease-
Remember I am single and doing as I please.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; Married ; RHYME ; Single ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Autograph Rhyme
Remember well and hear in mind that a true friend is hard to find.
But when you find one just and true, change not the old for the new.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; FRIENDSHIP ; RHYME ; 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 Verse
Guard well your thoughts, for thoughts are known in Heaven.
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Original BN [v200] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SHELBYVILLE
Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; HEAVEN ; 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 |
Prose Narrative - Weather
Cold weather's coming cuz the hogs is carrying sticks.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; Ashland City
Keyword(s): Folk ; Maxim ; Narrative ; Prose ; Saying ; VERSE ; WEATHER
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Air Weather Fire |
Verse - Game
ABC - LSD - Marijuana is good for me.
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Keyword(s): Acid ; ALPHABET ; DRUGS ; LSD ; Marijuana ; Pop Culture ; RHYME ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Formula
If you stay all night I'll stand ya up in the corner (?)
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): Corner ; Overnight ; Saying ; VERSE
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Entertainment: Song
Jogging Along
a joggin' along to make the girls stare, a coach with six horses drawn by an old mare.
Chorus:
Hi come along, Jim along Josie
Hi come along, Jim along Joe
I went to the market I went to the mall
To court a rich widow with nothing at all
I asked her to marry me one hot summer day, while out in the meadow a'rakin up hay.
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Keyword(s): Balled ; RHYME ; SONG ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ballad Epic |