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SANTA CLAUS
ONE OF THE MOST WIDESPREAD LEGENDS I CAN THINK OF IS THAT
OF SANTA CLAUS. NOT ONLY IN THE UNITED STATES, BUT IN MANY
COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD IT IS BELIEVED THAT THERE IS SOME
JOLLY, KIND OLD MAN WHO BRINGS TOYS AND PRESENTS TO ALL GOOD
LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS AT CHRISTMAS TIME.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
Keyword(s): GIFTS ; holiday ; Legend ; Present ; Saint Nick ; SANTA CLAUS ; Toys
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Secular hero |
Date learned: 00-00-1955
CUSTOMS (NEW YEAR)
IF AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT A MARRIED
COUPLE IS HOLDING CASH IN ONE HAND
AND A PICKLED HERRING IN THE OTHER HAND AND EACH TASTES OF THE
HERRING THEY WILL HAVE GOOD LUCK THROUGHOUT THE COMING YEAR.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT LEARNED FROM THE FAMILY.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
Keyword(s): MONEY
Date learned: 09-30-1967
JA SAM MAJKO CURA FINA (MOTHER, I AM A FINE GIRL)
JA SAM MAJKO CURA FINA (MOTHER, I AM A FINE GIRL
UDAT CHU SE ZA MARINA. AND A SAILOR I WILL MARRY
CHIRI-BIRI BELA MARE MOJA. CHIRI-BIRI BELA MARE MOJA.
CHIRI-BIRI BELA MARE MOJA. CHIRI-BIRI BELA MARE MOJA.
CHIRI-BIRI BELA MARE MOJA. CHIRI-BIRI BELA MARE MOJA.
ODOH U MARINE. I AM OFF TO THE SEA.)
Submitter comment:
THE LANGUAGE IS SERBO-CROATIAN, A BRANCH OF SOUTH SLAVIC
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
Keyword(s): CROATIA
James Callow Keyword(s): ITERATION ; TAMBURITZA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Love |
Date learned: 00001977CA
OJ TI VILO VELEBITA (VELEBIT: CROATIAN MAJESTY)
OJ TI VILO, VILO VELEBITA VELEBIT, CROATIAN MAJESTY
TI NASHEG RODA DIKA SYMBOL OF PRIDE FOR OUR RACE
TVOJA SLAVA JESTA NAMA SVETA YOUR GLORY, TO US, IS ALMOST HOLY.
TI VILO VELEBITA VELEBIT, CROATIAN MAJESTY
TI NASHEG RODA DIKA SYMBOL OF PRIDE FOR OUR RACE,
ZHIVILA PREMILA. ZHIVILA PREMILA. MAY YOU LIVE AND PREVAIL AS A
ZHIVILA, OJ PREMILA, TI VILO SVI HRVATA! SYMBOL OF CROATIANS
UNITED.
Submitter comment:
THE LANGUAGE IS SERBO-CROATIAN, A BRANCH OF SOUTH SLAVIC
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
Keyword(s): CROATIA
James Callow Keyword(s): INITIAL ITERATION ; PATRIOTISM ; TAMBURITZA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Admiration Praise Adulation |
Date learned: 00001979CA
CHUJESH MALA (LISTEN, LITTLE ONE)
CHUJESH, CHUJESH, CHUJESH MALA (LISTEN, LITTLE ONE
DOSTA SI VARALA YOU'VE BEEN FOOLING AROUND
CHUJESH, CHUJESH, CHUJESH MALA LONG ENOUGH.)
DOSTA SI VARALA, DOSTA SI VARALA.
Submitter comment:
THE LANGUAGE IS SERBO-CROATIAN, A BRANCH OF SOUTH SLAVIC
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
Keyword(s): CROATIA
James Callow Keyword(s): ITERATION ; TAMBURITZA ; WARNING
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Emotion |
Date learned: 00001979CA
OJ, MARICHKA PEGLAJ (HEY, MARICHKA, IRON)
OJ, MARICHKA, PEGLAJ, PEGLAJ, PEGLAJ, PEGLAJ (HEY, MARICHKA, IRON,
(REPEAT TWICE) IRON, IRON, IRON.(REPEAT TWICE)
OJ, MARICHKA, PEGLAJ HEY, MARICHKA, IRON
CJELI DAN I NOCH. ALL DAY AND NIGHT.)
Submitter comment:
THE LANGUAGE IS SERBO-CROATIAN, A BRANCH OF SOUTH SLAVIC
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
Keyword(s): CROATIA
James Callow Keyword(s): ITERATION ; TAMBURITZA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Good humor Jest |
Date learned: 00001978CA
CHEER
UMBA SASSA, UMBA SASSA,
HIT 'EM IN DA HEAD WITH A BIG KILBASA.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT USED IN POLISH HIGH SCHOOL.
Data entry tech comment: KIELBASA=POLISH SAUSAGE
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
Keyword(s): DIALECT, SLANG THREAT FOOD ; METER: TROCHAIC ; RHYME: FEMININE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse |
COUNTING OUT
ACABAKA SODA CRAKA ACABAKA BOO;
ACABAKA SODA CRAKA OUT GOES YOU.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT USED AS A CHILD.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
COUNTING OUT
APPLES, PEACHES, PEARS, AND PLUMS,
TELL ME WHEN YOUR BIRTHDAY COMES.
JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH . . .
Submitter comment:
IF PERSON POINTED TO HAS BIRTHDAY IN MONTH NAMED,
WHEN POINTED TO, HE IS IT.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
COUNTING OUT
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
THESE LITTLE CHILDREN WENT TO HEAVEN.
ONE FLEW EAST AND ONE FLEW WEST,
AND ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEXT.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS A COUNTING RHYME, TOLD BY THIS WOMAN'S
GRANDMOTHER IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ABOUT 1937.
James Callow comment: RDNeedsReview
Where learned: OHIO ; ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO ; LIMA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1937
BY HOOK OR BY CROOK
I'LL BE THE LAST ONE
TO SIGN THIS BOOK
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED IN SCHOOL
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Announcing a signature |
Date learned: 10-31-1967
I'LL BE YOURS UNTIL RUSSIA GETS HUNGARY
AND FRIES TURKEY IN GREECE.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Humorous allusion to love |
Date learned: 00-00-1960
SOME WRITE UP AND SOME WRITE DOWN,
BUT I'LL BE DIFFERENT AND WRITE AROUND.
James Callow comment: VERSE WRITTEN IN A CIRCLE WITHIN A CIRCLE.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Reading or writing backwards, upside down |
Date learned: 10-31-1967
REMEBER WASHINGTON? REMEMBER LEE?
THE HECK WITH THEM, REMEMBER ME!
Submitter comment: LEARNED IN SCHOOL
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Remember me |
Date learned: 10-31-1967
FAMILY CUSTOM
AT OUR FAMILY PICNIC (THE CARNEY CLAN), SOMEONE ALWAYS BRINGS THE
TOILET SEAT MOUNTED ON A PIECE OF PLYWOOD, THE BUCKET, AND THE
SPONGES. ANY ANIMOSITY ANYONE HAS CAN BE PUBLICLY EXHIBITED BY
THROWING SPONGES FULL OF WATER AT THE PARTY WHO IS THE CAUSE OF THE
ANGER OR FRUSTRATION WHILE THEIR HEAD IS STICKING THROUGH THE
TOILET SEAT FROM BEHIND THE BOARD. IT'S BEEN PRETTY WILD AT TIMES.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
HEALING WATERS
ONE WINTER A GREAT PLAGUE STRUCK AND MANY INDIANS DIED. ONE YOUNG
MAN NAMED MONTA HAD LOST ALL HIS FAMILY BUT HIS NEW WIFE, WHO WAS
ILL. MONTA PRAYED TO MANITOU, THE GREAT SPIRIT, TO GIVE HIM A
PLANT WHICH WOULD CURE HIS WIFE. AFTER HIS PRAYER, HE COVERED HIS
WIFE WITH SOFT FIRS AND BEGAN HIS SEARCH OVER THE SNOW-COVERED
EARTH. FOR THREE DAYS HE SEARCHED, BUT THE PLANTS WERE ALL SLEEP-
ING UNTIL SPRING AND NO ANIMALS WERE IN SIGHT. FINALLY HE FELL
ASLEEP. ALL THE ANIMALS OF THE FOREST GATHERED AROUND, FOR HE
HAD ALWAYS BEEN GOOD TO THEM. THEY PRAYED TO THE GREAT SPIRIT TO
HELP MONTA. THE GREAT SPIRIT HEARD AND SENT MONTA A DREAM. IN
THE DREAM MONTA SAW HIS WIFE WELL AND HEARD HER SINGING. SHE SANG
OF THE HEALING WATERS OF THE GREAT MANITOU. WHEN MONTA AWOKE HE
HEARD THE WATERS SINGING AND BEGAN TO DIG UNDER HIS FEET. UP
SPRANG THE HEALING WATERS. HE WASHED IN THE WATER AND BECAME
STRONG. HE TOOK WATER TO HIS WIFE AND SHE WAS SAVED. FROM THEN
ON, THE PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE BATHED IN THE SPRING AND WERE NEVER
ILL AGAIN.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Supernatural Being PROSE NARRATIVE -- Running water Small current. Brook, spring.... PROSE NARRATIVE -- Magic BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
MONOLOGUE
THERE ONCE LIVED A YOUNG INDIAN GIRL CALLED NO ONE'S MAIDEN, FOR
SHE HAD NO PARENTS AND LIVED WITH THE WITCHDOCTOR AND HIS MEAN
WIFE. NO ONE'S MAIDEN WORKED TOO HARD TO PLAY OR DANCE AND NO
MAN WISHED HER FOR SHE HAD NO DOWRY. ONE NIGHT THE WITCH DOCTOR
TOLD HER TO GO FOR A WALK, SO SHE SAT BY THE LAKE AND GAZED AT
THE MOON. SHE SANG A SONG ABOUT HOW LONELY SHE WAS AND TOLD THE
MOON SHE WAS SORRY FOR HIM BECAUSE HE WAS LONELY TOO. THE INDIANS
CALLED THE MOON NANNY. SHE TOLD NANNY SHE WOULD LIKE TO VISIT
HIM AND CHEER HIM UP. THE MOON BEGAN TO SHINE AND A SILVER PATH
CAME DOWN FOR NO ONE'S MAIDEN TO VISIT ON. THE MOON CALLED HER
NANNY MAYEY, WHICH MEANS MOON PATH. FOR TWO NIGHTS SHE VISITED
THE MOON BUT ON THE SECOND NIGHT WAS SEEN BY HER PEOPLE. SHE
RETURNED TO THEM AS NANNY MAYEY AND WAS ADORED BY ALL. EVEN NOW,
HOWEVER, NANNY THROWS DOWN THE SILVER PATH TO REMIND PEOPLE OF
NANNY MAYEY.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
Date learned: 00-00-1970
IF YOU ROCK AN EMPTY ROCKING CHAIR, SOMEONE IN YOUR
FAMILY IS GOING TO DIE.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Number Emptiness, nothingness, zero |
Date learned: 03-10-1968
JUMP-ROPE RHYME
SHERRIE'S GOT A BOYFRIEND. TISKET, TISKET, DADDIO! WHO TOLD YOU?
TISKET, TISKET, DADDIO! YOU TOLD US. TISKET, TISKET, DADDIO. CAN
YOU ROPE IT? ROPE IT, ROPE IT, DADDIO. WHAT'S HIS NAME? TISKET,
TISKET, DADDIO. JESSIE, HONEY, JESSIE JAMES. TISKET, TISKET,
DADDIO.
WHERE DOES HE LIVE? TISKET, TISKET, DADDIO! ON A HILL. TISKET,
TISKET, DADDIO. CAN YOU STOMP IT? STOMP IT, STOMP IT, DADDIO.
CAN YOU TWINE IT? TWINE IT, TWINE IT, DADDIO.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 11-00-1974
JUMP-ROPE RHYME
FUDGE, FUDGE, FUDGE. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. CALL THAT JUDGE. BOOM,
BOOM, BOOM. MAMMA'S GOT A NEWBORN BABY. BOOM! IT'S NOT A BOY.
BOOM! IT'S NOT A GIRL. BOOM! IT'S JUST AN ORDINARY BABY. BOOM!
WRAP IT UP IN TOILET PAPER, KICK IT DOWN THE ELEVATOR! FIRST FLOOR,
SPLIT, SECOND FLOOR, SPLIT, THIRD FLOOR, SPLIT. (KEEP ON UNTIL GIRL
MISSES IN THE ROPE.)
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 11-00-1974