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AUTOGRAPH BOOK MATERIAL
2 GOOD 2 BE 4 GOTTEN
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
James Callow Keyword(s): DIGITAL SPELLING
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
AUTOGRAPH BOOK MATERIAL
TWO IN A CAR TWO LITTLE KISSES FOUR WEEKS LATER MR AND MRS
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
James Callow Keyword(s): RHYME: ABCB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
AUTOGRAPH BOOK MATERIAL
THERE ARE WARSHIPS,, THERE ARE SCHOLARSHIPS BUT THE BEST SHIP
IS OUR "FRIENDSHIP"
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
James Callow Keyword(s): FINAL ITERATION INITIAL ITERATION WORD PLAY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
AUTOGRAPH BOOK MATERIAL
I'M NOT A SOUTHERN BEAUTY
I'M NOT A NORTHERN ROSE
I'M JUST A PLAIN OLD SCHOOL GIRL
WITH A FRECKLE ON HER NOSE!
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
James Callow Keyword(s): INITIAL ITERATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
AUTOGRAPH BOOK MATERIAL
I WISH YOU LUCK I WISH YOU JOY I WISH YOU FIRST A BABY BOY
BUT WHEN HIS HAIR BEGINS TO CURL I WISH YOU THEN A BABY
GIRL
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
James Callow Keyword(s): INITIAL ITERATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
AUTOGRAPH BOOK MATERIAL
BY HOOK OR BY CROOK I'LL BE THE FIRST TO SIGN THIS BOOK!
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
QUIET PLEASE
OPEN AND SHUT THEM,
OPEN AND SHUT THEM,
GIVE A LITTLE CLAP.
OPEN AND SHUT THEM,
OPEN AND SHUT THEM.
LAY THEM IN YOUR LAP.
Submitter comment:
CHILDREN DO THIS AFTER THEY SIT DOWN BEFORE STORY TIME.
THIS IS A WAY TO KEEP THEIR HANDS STILL.
INFORMANT LEARNED THIS FROM HER TEACHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 08-11-1964
COUNTING OUT RHYME
ALL THOSE CHILDREN WHO ARE GOING TO PLAY A CERTAIN GAME
IN WHICH ONE OF THEM HAS TO BE IT, STAND IN A CIRCLE AND
POINT THEIR RIGHT TOES TO THE CENTER OF THE CIRCLE. ONE
PERSON DOES THE COUNTING OUT AND POINS TO EACH TOE
SEPARATELY, WHILE SAYING ONE WORD OF THE RHYME TO EACH
TOE; THE RHYME:
TOE, TOE, HOW OLD ARE YOU?
THE PERSON TO WHOSE TOE THE COUNTER IS POINTING MAY REPLY,
"TEN." THE COUNTER THEN GOES ON SAYING, "1, 2, 3, ... 10,
AND YOU ARE NOT IT." THE PESON HE SAYS IT TO REMOVES HIS
FOOT FROM THE CIRCLE, AND THE LAST PERSON LEFT IS IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 00001950'S
MIRACULOUS BATH WATER
SOME FOURTH GRADERS I TAUGHT INFORMED ME OF A STORY
THAT THEIR THIRD GRADE TEACHER, SR. WILMA, HAD TOLD THEM
THE YEAR BEFORE:
JUST ABOUT THE TIME JESUS WAS BORN, ANOTHER LADY IN
BETHLEHEM HAD A BABY, TOO. THIS BABY WAS ALL
CRIPPLED. ONE DAY, JESUS' MOTHER WAS GIVING HIM A
BATH. THE LADY KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT
MARY'S BABY, AND ASKED TO USE THE SAME WATER. WHEN SHE
TOOK HER LITTLE BOY OUT OF THE WATER, HE WASN'T
CRIPPLED ANY MORE.
Submitter comment:
I HEARD THIS STORY WHEN I WAS A TEACHER AT THE SCHOOL
MENTIONED ABOVE.
Data entry tech comment: I WILL PARAPHRASE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES ; SAINT ISAAC JOGUES SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero PROSE NARRATIVE -- Physically handicapped Deformed |
Date learned: 00-00-1961
MIRACULOUS BATH WATER
SOME FOURTH GRADERS I TAUGHT INFORMED ME OF A STORY
THAT THEIR THIRD GRADE TEACHER, SR. WILMA, HAD TOLD THEM
THE YEAR BEFORE:
JUST ABOUT THE TIME JESUS WAS BORN, ANOTHER LADY IN
BETHLEHEM HAD A BABY, TOO. THIS BABY WAS ALL
CRIPPLED. ONE DAY, JESUS' MOTHER WAS GIVING HIM A
BATH. THE LADY KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT
MARY'S BABY, AND ASKED TO USE THE SAME WATER. WHEN SHE
TOOK HER LITTLE BOY OUT OF THE WATER, HE WASN'T
CRIPPLED ANY MORE.
Submitter comment:
I HEARD THIS STORY WHEN I WAS A TEACHER AT THE SCHOOL
MENTIONED ABOVE.
Data entry tech comment: I WILL PARAPHRASE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES ; SAINT ISAAC JOGUES SCHOOL
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero PROSE NARRATIVE -- Physically handicapped Deformed |
Date learned: 00-00-1961
COUNTING OUT RHYME
EACH PERSON INVOLVED PUTS HIS TWO FISTS FORWARD AND ONE
PERSON DOES THE COUNTING OUT, SAYING ONE WORD AS HE TAPS
EACH FIST. THE RHYME IS:
BUBBLEGUM, BUBBLEGUM, IN A DISH,
HOW MANY PIECES DO YOU WISH?
EXAMPLE--THE CHILD MIGHT SAY 5, SO THE COUNTER GOES ON
AND SAYS, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, AND YOU ARE NOT IT. WHOEVER HAS
THE WORD "IT" SPOKEN TO HIM, PUTS THAT FIST BEHIND HIS
BACK. THE PROCESS CONTINUES UNTIL ONE PERSON HAS A FIST
LEFT, AND THAT PERSON IS "IT."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 00-00-1960
COUNTING OUT
EACH PERSON INVOLVED PUTS HIS TWO FISTS FORWARD AND
ONE PERSON DOES THE COUNTING OUT, SAYING ONE WORD AS HE
TAPS EACH FIST. THE RHYME IS:
INK, INK, BOTTLE OF INK,
THE CORK FELL OUT AND YOU STINK!
WHOEVER HAS THE WORD "STINK" SPOKEN TO HIM, PUTS THAT
HAND BEHIND HIS BACK. THE PROCESS CONTINUS UNTIL ONE
PERSON HAS ONE FIST LEFT, AND THAT PERSON IS IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
THE GAME "BITE THE BAG."
THE GAME BITE THE BAG IS A GAME PLAYED AT PARTIES WHERE THE
PLAYERS ALL GATHER IN A CIRCLE AND AN ORDINARY GROCERY BAG
IS PLACED IN THE MIDDLE. THE OBJECT OF THE GAME IS TO
BEND OVER AND PICK UP THE BAG WITH YOUR TEETH WITHOUT ANY PART
OF YOUR BODY EXCEPT FOR YOUR FEET TOUCHING THE GROUND. THE GAME
PROCEEDS AND EACH PLAYER TRIES TO PICK UP THE BAG. THE PLAYER
IS DISQUALIFIED WHEN THEY FAIL TO PICK UP THE BAG PROPERLY.
AFTER EACH SUCCESSIVE ROUND THE BAG HAS ONE INCH CUT OFF THE
TOP EDGE SO THAT IT PROGRESSIVELY BECOMES MORE DIFFICULT.
THE WINNER IS THE LAST PERSON TO SUCCESSFULLY PICK UP THE BAG.
James Callow comment: CAN YOU BEND YOUR KNEES? YES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; PARTY ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Special Object or Implement |
Date learned: 00001983CA
ONCE WHEN I WAS TAKING A MIND CONTROL COURSE I HAD A VISION OF
A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT. IT WAS VERY DETAILED. THE GIRL ON THE
MOTORCYCLE WAS WEARING A BLUE HELMET AND WAS HIT BY A CAR. I TOLD
MY INSTRUCTER OF MY VISION AND THE NEXT DAY IN CLASS HE TOLD US
OF AN ACCIDENT ONE OF THE OTHER INSTRUCTERS HAD BEEN IN THE DAY
BEFORE AT THE SAME TIME AS MY VISION. THE ACCIDENT WAS EVEN
WRITTEN UP IN THE NEWSPAPER WITH A PICTURE OF THE SCENE. IN THE
PICTURE WAS A BLUE HELMET.
Where learned: SAINT CLAIR SHORES
| Subject headings: | 841 Dreams about the dead and sick BELIEF -- Dreams Dreams about the dead and sick |
Date learned: 04-00-1984
SUPERSTITON
AN ENGLISH IVY PLANT IN THE HOUSE WILL BRING BAD LUCK.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT STRONGLY BELIEVES THIS. SHE CLAIMS THAT WHENEVER SHE HAD SUCH A PLANT IN THE HOUSE, THE RESULT WAS NOTHING BUT BAD LUCK UNTIL SHE DISPOSED OF THE PLANT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES ; TOLD AT INFORMANT'S HOME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Fate Destiny Luck Chance BELIEF -- Bad luck BELIEF -- Bad luck Plants |
Date learned: 02-27-1971
JUMP-ROPE RHYME
JOHNNY OVER THE OCEAN.
JOHNNY OVER THE SEA.
JOHNNY BROKE THE SUGARBOWL
AND BLAMED IT ON ME.
I TOLD MA, MA TOLD PA,
JOHNNY GOT A LICKEN,
HA, HA, HA!
HOW MANY LICKENS DID HE RECEIVE??
1, 2, 3, 4,.....
Submitter comment:
Informant learned this in the 1950s.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE JUMP
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 00001950'S
THEY CLAP AND HE DANCES.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; ; TOLD AT ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 03-06-1970
SUPERSTITION
IF YOU BURY A PERSON WITHOUT SHOES, THEY WILL COME BACK AND
HAUNT YOU.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial SPEECH -- Extra Corporal Means of Communication |
Date learned: 02-27-1971
PROVERB
A BIRD IN YOUR HAND IS BETTER THAN TEN ON A TREE.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS A PROVERB FROM PALESTINE, NOT THE USE OF TEN ON A TREE
COMPARED WITH THE AMERICAN PROVERB SAYING TWO ON A TREE. (SIC)
Data entry tech comment:
TWO IN THE BUSH
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
Keyword(s): BIRD
James Callow Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; NUMBERS ; OBSERVATION ; PRIORITY
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. 686 First / Once / One / Newness PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 03-06-1970
PROVERB
THE DOG'S TAIL STAYS CROOKED NO MATTER WHAT
Submitter comment: THIS IS A PROVERB FROM PALESTINE WHERE THE INFORMANT WAS RAISED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
Keyword(s): ANIMAL
James Callow Keyword(s): OBSERVATION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |