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IF YOU COUNT FUNERAL CARS, SOMEONE IN YOUR FAMILY WILL DIE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial BELIEF -- Number Counting beliefs |
Date learned: 09-26-1965
THERE ARE TULIPS IN THE GARDEN
THERE ARE TULIPS IN THE PARK
BUT THE TULIPS YOU AND I LIKE
ARE THE TWO LIPS IN THE DARK.
(SIGNED) CAROLE RYDECKI
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Translations, plays on words, symbol writing |
Date learned: 00-00-1959
U. R.
2 GOOD
2 BE
4 GOTTEN
(SIGNED) JENNY DELICH
James Callow comment: WRITTEN AS AN ADDITION PROBLEM
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Translations, plays on words, symbol writing |
Date learned: 00-00-1959
2 WISE U. R.
2 WISE U. B.
2 WISE U. R.
FORE ME.
(SIGNED) SUSAN HUFF
Submitter comment:
MY OWN AUTOGRAPH BOOK , 7TH GRADE, ST. JAMES
CATHOLIC SCHOOL, FERNDALE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Translations, plays on words, symbol writing |
Date learned: 00-00-1959
ROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE GREEN,
YOU'D THINK BETTER WITH SOME BRAINS IN YOUR BEAN. CK[ SLANG=BEAN FOR HEAD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ; FERNDALE
James Callow Keyword(s): SLANG=BEAN FOR HEAD
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Roses are red and other such associations |
Date learned: 00-00-1959
CHURCH
WHEN NAPOLEON CAME TO INVADE MALTA OF ITS CHURCHES' RICHES, A
SACRISTAN OF ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL PAINTED THE SOLID SILVER DOOR
BLACK. NAPOLEON WAS FOOLED AND JUST RECENTLY THE BLACK PAINT
HAS BEGUN TO CHIP OFF.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Product or activity of man or animal CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Metal Stone Bone |
ROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE BLUE,
SUGAR IS SWEET SO ARE YOU.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Roses are red and other such associations |
Date learned: 11-29-1967
ROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE BLUE,
HONEY IS SWEET AND SO ARE YOU.
(SIGNED) RITA ZINSER
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Roses are red and other such associations |
Date learned: 00-00-1959
WHEN YOU GET MARRIED AND HAVE TWINS,
DON'T COME TO MY HOUSE FOR SAFETY PINS.
Submitter comment:
THIS VERSE WAS TAKEN OUT OF HER AUTOGRAPH BOOK
WHICH WAS BEING PASSED AROUND THE ROOM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony |
Date learned: 12-06-1965
BANANAS GROW IN FLORIDA
ORANGES GROW THERE TOO,
BUT IT TAKES A STATE LIKE MICHIGAN
TO GROW A PEACH LIKE YOU.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Humorous allusion to love |
Date learned: 12-06-1965
THERE ARE TULIPS IN THE GARDEN,
THERE ARE TULIPS IN THE PARK.
BUT THE TULIPS I LIKE BEST,
ARE TULIPS IN THE DARK.
Submitter comment:
I READ THIS IN AUTOGRAPH BOOKS AND WROTE IT IN
AUTOGRAPH BOOKS MYSELF.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Humorous allusion to love |
Date learned: 10-17-1967
COUNTING OUT
FOR EVERY WORD, YOU POINT TO A DIFFERENT PERSON:
BUBBLE GUM, BUBBLE GUM IN A DISH,
HOW MANY PIECES DO YOU WISH?
SIX. (COUNT OUT SIX)1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
THE LAST PERSON POINTED TO IS THE PESON WHO IS IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
BELIEF
ALWAYS CHRUSH EGGSCHELLS COMPLETELY BEFORE THROWING THEM AWAY
IF YOU DO NOT, THE SHELL HALVES WILL PROVIDE A SHELTER FOR
DANGEROUS SPIRITS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BLOOMFIELD
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Animal product Egg BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
BUBBLEGUM, BUBBLEGUM IN A DISH
HOW MANY PIECES DO YOU WISH?
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT IS A FRIEND'S YOUNGEST SISTER, AND THIS IS
A VERSE TO DETERMINE WHO IS IT IN A GAME BY COUNTING
FEET.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
WHEN YOU WANT TO FIND OUT WHO IS GOING TO BE "IT" IN A
GAME OF TAG, YOU HAVE ALL THE CHILDREN STAND IN A CIRCLE.
THEY ALL HOLD OUT THEIR HANDS, MAKING FISTS WITH THEM.
ONE PERSON GOES AROUND AND HITS THEIR HANDS, ONE HAND
FOR EVERY WORD, WHILE HE SAYS IBBETY-BIBBITY-SIBBETY-SAB,
IBBETY-BIBBETY KNABBLE. THE LAST PERSON WHOSE HAND IS
HIT MUST PUT THAT ONE BEHIND HIS BACK. THE PERSON AT
THE END WHO HAS A HAND LEFT OUT IS DECLARED "IT."
Submitter comment:
WE USED TO PLAY THIS WHEN I WAS A CHILD. I LEARNED IT
FROM MY OLDER SISTER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
Date learned: 12-06-1965
TEDDY BEAR HAS HIS LAIR,
UNDER (SOMEBODY'S NAME) ROCKING CHAIR.
PLEASE TAKE CARE, DON'T GO THERE,
OR YOU'LL HAVE AN AWFUL SCARE.
Submitter comment:
RECITED WHILE ROCKING A CHILD TO SLEEP. ONE MUST KEEP
IN TIME WITH THE BACK AND FORTH MOTION OF THE CHAIR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse C730.366 |
Date learned: 09-28-1965
OOEY, GOOEY WAS A WORM,
A NAUGHTY WORM WAS HE,
HE CLIMBED UPON THE RAILROAD TRACK,
A TRAIN HE DID NOT SEE.
OOEY, GOOEY.
Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM A FRIEND ON HIS HOCKEY TEAM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
A RAINBOW AT NIGHT IS A SAILOR'S DELIGHT.
A RAINBOW IN MORNING IS A SAILOR'S WARNING.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT HEARD THIS IN THE THUMB DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb |
KINDERGARTEN BABY,
WASH YOUR FACE ON GRAVY. (IN?)
Submitter comment:
THIS IS SAID TO SOMEONE WHEN YOU ARE SCORNING THEM BECAUSE
THEY ARE SULKING OR ACTING LIKE A BABY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 12-06-1965
LYRICAL VERSE
MOSES SUPPOSES HIS TOES-ES ARE ROSES,
BUT MOSES SUPPOSES ERRONEOUSLY,
FOR MOSES HE KNOWS-ES HIS TOES-ES AREN'T ROSES,
AS MOSES SUPPOSES HIS TOES-ES TO BE.
Submitter comment:
I HEARD THIS IN FERNDALE, MICHIGAN, FROM A YOUNG FRIEND
OF FRENCH AND POLISH LINEAGE, FORMERLY A CANADIAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
Keyword(s): BIBLICAL NAME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |