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CUSTOM
WHEN SOMEONE VISITS AND FORGETS WHAT HE WANTS TO SAY, YOU SHOULD
LET HIM GO OUT AND ENTER THE HOUSE AGAIN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN ; NATIONAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY ; WHERE INFORMANT
Keyword(s): FORGETTING
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: 10-31-1969
BELIEF
IF YOU EAT A LOT OF SALT, YOU'LL LOSE YOUR MEMORY WHEN YOU GET OLD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): FORGETFULNESS
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 09-00-1967
AUTOGRAPH BOOK VERSE
YOUR BLUE EYES MAY WATER
YOUR WHITE TEETH MAY GRIT
BUT YOU'RE ONE LOVELY
I WON'T FORGIT.
Data entry tech comment: THIS VERSE WAS FULL OF SPELLING ERRORS.
Keyword(s): RHYME: ABCB
James Callow Keyword(s): CRYING ; FORGET ; GRITTING OF TEETH
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Humorous allusion to love |
Date learned: 11-05-1967
AROUND OUR HOUSE, WHEN SOMEONE IS TALKING AND THEN
FORGETS WHAT HE IS GOING TO SAY, THE PEOPLE
LISTENING SAY THAT HE WAS GOING TO LIE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK
James Callow Keyword(s): FORGETTING.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 11-11-1969
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
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
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 |
BELIEF
WHENEVER MY MOTHER STARTED TO SAY SOMETHING AND SHE FORGOT WHAT
SHE WAS GOING TO SAY, SHE WOULD SAY, "IT MUST HAVE BEEN A LIE."
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ALLEN PARK
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; CUSTOM ; FORGET ; Lie
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal |
Date learned: 02-02-1972