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MILITARY CADENCE SONG
I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD,
RANGERS ARE AS GOOD AS GOLD.
I'VE BEEN TOLD AND I BELIEVE,
I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS LEAVE.
I WONDER WHERE THE YELLOW WENT,
WHEN THEY BOMBED THE ORIENT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROSEVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVERTISING FOR PEPSODENT TOOTHPASTE: ; WHEN YOU BRUSH YOUR TEETH WITH PEPSODENT ; YOU'LL WONDER WHERE THE YELLOW WENT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- War cries CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- F535 |
Date learned: 12-00-1974
FLEMISH PROVERB
AS THE CLOCK TICKS AT HOME, IT TICKS NOWHERE ELSE. ZOOALS HET KLOKJE THUIS TIKT, TIKT HET NERGENS. (FLEMISH)
Submitter comment: THIS WAS GIVEN TO ME WHEN HE WAS VISITING DETROIT, MICH. FROM BELGIUM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): HUMAN CREATIONS ; ONOMATOPEIA
James Callow Keyword(s): COMPARISON ; OBSERVATION ; TIME FLIES WHEN YOU'RE HAVING FUN
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 10-00-1967
KNOCK KNOCK JOKE
KNOCK KNOCK
WHO'S THERE?
WENDY
WENDY WHO?
WENDY MOON COMES OVER THE MOUNTAIN.
Submitter comment: AT SOME PARTY
Where learned: UNKNOWN
Keyword(s): NAME ; SONG TITLE: WHEN THE MOON COMES OVER THE MOUNTAINS
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 11-03-1967
KNOCK KNOCK JOKE
KNOCK, KNOCK
WHO'S THERE?
WENDY
WENDY WHO?
WENDY JOKES ARE FINISHED, I'LL TELL YOU!
Submitter comment: I MADE UP THIS LAST JOKE FROM MY AUNT'S NAME, WENDY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FRANKLIN VILLAGE
James Callow Keyword(s): WHEN THE
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 00001960S
Language: Rhyme
If wisdom's ways you'd willing seek
Five things observe with care;
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how, and when and where.
Submitter comment:
Found in autograph book from 1880's
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Language ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; Speak ; VERSE ; When ; Where ; Whom ; WISDOM
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
I WAS POURING HIM A HILL, HE WAS DIGGING ME A HOLE.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): {WHEN IS THIS USED?} {DON'T KNOW}
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 10-03-1971