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COUNTING OUT RHYME
BUBBLE GUM, BUBBLE GUM IN A DISH
HOW MANY PIECES DO YOU WISH?
(SPELL OUT NUMBER OF PIECES)
S-E-V-E-N SPELLS SEVEN AND YOU'RE NOT IT.
LAST PERSON IS IT.
Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM FRIENDS AT SCHOOL
Where learned: OHIO ; WASHINGTON ; WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-07-1967
COUNTING OUT RHYME
I STRUCK MATCH AND IT WENT OUT.
LAST PERSON IS IT.
Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM FRIENDS AT SCHOOL.
Where learned: OHIO ; WASHINGTON ; WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-07-1967
COUNTING OUT RHYME
ENGINE, ENGINE NUMBER NINE,
GOING DOWN CHICAGO LINE,
IF THE TRAIN SHOULD JUMP THE TRACK,
DO YOU WANT YOUR MONEY BACK?
(SPELL OUT YES OR NO)
Y-E-S SPELLS YES AND MY MOTHER TOLD ME TO PICK THE
VERY BEST ONE. (EITHER FIRST ONE OR LAST ONE OUT IS IT)
Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM FRIENDS AT SCHOOL.
Where learned: OHIO ; WASHINGTON ; WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-07-1967
MY MOTHER AND YOUR MOTHER WERE HANGING UP THE CLOTHES.
MY MOTHER PUNCHED YOUR MOTHER IN THE NOSE.
WHAT COLOR WAS THE BLOOD?
(PICK AND SPELL OUT COLOR)
R-E-D SPELLS RED AND YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE IT.
CONTINUE TILL LAST ONE LEFT IS IT.
Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM FRIENDS AT PLAY.
Where learned: OHIO ; WASHINGTON ; WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 10-07-1967
RED SKY AT NIGHT, SAILORS DELIGHT.
RDED SKY AT DAWN, SAILORS FOREWARN.
Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM SAILING INSTRUCTOR IN GRUADE SCHOOL.
Where learned: OHIO ; WASHINGTON ; WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb |
RIDDLE
WHAT IS RED AND WHITE ON THE OUTSIDE AND GRAY
ON THE INSIDE? ANSWER: CAMPBELL'S CREAM OF
ELEPHANT SOUP.
Data entry tech comment: THE CAMPBELL SOUP LABEL IS RED AND WHITE.
Where learned: OHIO ; WASHINGTON
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Date learned: 10-07-1967
GEORGIA SUPERSTITION
"THE ONLY WAY TO CATCH A BIRD WAS TO PUT SALT ON ITS TAIL,
AND CATCHING A BIRD BROUGHT GOOD LUCK"
Where learned: OHIO ; FLORIDA ; ALLIANCE ; EUSTIS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Bird BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 11-13-1980 ; 00001920S
FLORIDA SUPERSTITION
"YOU SHOULD NEVER LIGHT THREE CANDLES OR THREE CIGARETTES
ON ONE MATCH, BECAUSE IT BRINGS BAD LUCK"
Where learned: OHIO ; FLORIDA ; ALLIANCE ; EUSTIS
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 11-13-1980 ; 00001920S
FLORIDA SUPERSTITION
"!OU SHOULD NEVER USE THE LAST MATCH IN A BOX, OR YOUR HOUSE
WILL CATCH FIRE"
Where learned: OHIO ; FLORIDA ; ALLIANCE ; EUSTIS
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Fire BELIEF -- Sign Geometric figure Circle and other round forms BELIEF -- Bad luck |
Date learned: 11-13-1980 ; 00001920S
IN A CLEVELAND FOUNDRY THE MOTION WITH THE HANDS
OF BREAKING A SMALL STICK AND POINTING TOWARD
YOU MEANT TAKE A BREAK.
Where learned: OHIO ; CLEVELAND
| Subject headings: | 602 Body Parts CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business SPEECH -- Instructions Directions |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
VAMPIRE BELIEF
A VAMPIRE CAN BE FRIGHTENED OFF BY MAKING A CROSS OUT OF
ANYTHING, SUCH AS TWO STICKS OR EVEN YOUR ARMS.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Keyword(s): Cross ; SUPERNATURAL ; SUPERSTITION ; SYMBOL ; Undead ; Vampire
James Callow Keyword(s): SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | 686 Seconds / Twice / Two BELIEF -- Werewolf Vampire BELIEF -- Body part Senses Upper body, arms, neck BELIEF -- Sign Geometric figure Cross and its various modifications |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
ONE OF THE MOST FRIGHTENING STORIES MY FATHER EVER TOLD ME
ABOUT BANSHEES WAS THIS ONE. IT SCARED ME MORE THAN ANY
OF THE REST BECAUSE IT WAS ABOUT MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER.
SOMEHOW THOSE STORIES AREN'T QUITE SO FRIGHTENING WHEN
THEY ARE ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE.
GRANDPA DIED A VERY OLD MAN. HE WAS BEING TAKEN CARE OF BY
HIS DAUGHTER, NELLIE, WHO WAS MY PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER.
HE WAS REFERRED TO BY THE CHILDREN, MY FATHER AND UNCLES,
AS "BLIND GRANDPA." CATARACTS HAD TAKEN HIS SIGHT EARLY
IN HIS SIXTIES. BESIDES BEING VERY OLD AND BLIND,
GRANDPA WAS IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE THAT WARM SPRING DAY,
AS HE SAT ROCKING IN THE FRONT PARLOR. SUDDENLY, HE
LET OUT A YELL TO NELLIE.
"NELLIE, COME IN HERE, GET THIS DOG OUT OF HERE, GET
HIM OUT." NELLIE CAME RUNNING. SHE WAS SO SURPRISED AT
HER FATHER'S OUTBURST THAT SHE DIDN'T STOP TO THINK
THAT HE COULDN'T HAVE SEEN ANY DOG EVEN IF THERE WAS
ONE, WHICH THERE WASN'T BECAUSE THE MC GRAWS DIDN'T
OWN A DOG THEN. SHE TRIED TO CALM HER FATHER, BUT HIS
AGITATION ONLY GREW AND SHE CALLED HER SISTERS-IN-LAW
FROM NEXT DOOR TO COME OVER WHILE SHE WENT FOR THE DOCTOR.
SHE NEEDN'T HAVE BOTHERED. WHEN SHE CAME BACK OUT INTO
THE PARLOR WITH KIT AND JO, BLIND GRANDPA WAS DEAD. HE
WAS SITTING IN THE ROCKER WITH HIS EYES CLOSED AND HE WAS
DEAD. NEXT TO HIM, JUST OUTSIDE THE SCREEN DOOR SAT A
HUGE BLACK LABRADOR. WHILE KIT, JO AND NELLIE STOOD
THERE IN HORROR, HE THREW BACK HIS HEAD AND HOWLED, THEN
TURNED AND DISAPPEARED FROM VIEW. A THOROUGH SEARCH OF
THE NEIGHBORHOOD PRODUCED NO DOG NOR ANYONE WHO CLAIMED
SEEING SUCH A DOG EVER AROUND THERE. SOME HAD HEARD THE
HOWL, OTHERS HADN'T OR REFUSED TO ADMIT IT. MY FATHER
REMEMBERED IT AS DID HIS BROTHER CHARLES, BOTH OF WHOM
HAD BEEN IN LORRAINE, OHIO WHILE THEIR GRANDFATHER WAS
DYING IN THE FRONT PARLOR OF THE FAMILY HOUSE IN CLEVELAND.
THE WAIL OF THE BANSHEE IS HEARD BY THOSE MEANT TO HEAR
IT AND IS NEVER EVER FORGOTTEN.
Where learned: OHIO ; LAKEWOOD ; OHIO, ASSUMED ; CLEVELAND
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 00001913-1968
FLORIDA SUPERSTITION
"IF YOU FIND A PENNY IN THE STREET,
YOU SHOULD PUT IT IN YOUR SHOE FOR GOOD LUCK"
Where learned: OHIO ; FLORIDA ; ALLIANCE ; EUSTIS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 11-13-1980 ; 00001920S
GEORGIA SUPERSTITION
"WE WERE ALWAYS TOLD NEVER TO STEP ON THE CRACKS IN THE SIDEWALK
OR STREETS. MY DADDY WOULD TELL US 'IF YOU STEP ON A CRACK,
YOU'LL BREAK YOUR MOTHER'S BACK."
Where learned: OHIO ; FLORIDA ; ALLIANCE ; EUSTIS
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Belief Belief |
Date learned: 00001920S
ROCK O MY SOUL
ROCKA MY SOUL IN THE BOSOM OF ABRAHAM, ROCKA MY SOUL IN THE BOSOM
OF ABRAHAM, ROCKA MY SOUL IN THE BOSOM OF ABRAHAM. OH ROCKA MY
SOUL.
Where learned: OHIO ; YOUNGSTOWN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Religious |
Date learned: 11-00-1987
GAME VERSE
PEEK A BOO, I SEE YOU,
HIDING THERE BEHIND THE CHAIR.
Where learned: OHIO ; YOUNGSTOWN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse C750.524 |
Date learned: 00001950S AND 00001960S
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WELLERISM
EVERYONE TO THEIR OWN TASTE,
SAID THE OLD LADY AS SHE KISSED THE COW.
Where learned: OHIO ; YOUNGSTOWN
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Wellerism Quotation |
Date learned: 00001950S AND 00001960S
ATHLETIC SPORT
THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT TO MARKET
THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT TO TOWN,
THIS LITTLE PIGGY ATE BREAD AND BUTTER,
THIS LITTLE PIGGY HAD NONE.
THIS LITTLE PIGGY SAID "WEE, WEE CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME."
Where learned: OHIO ; YOUNGSTOWN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 00001950S AND 00001960S
VERSE WITHOUT MUSIC
IT'S RAINING, IT'S POURING,
THE OLD MAN IS SNORING,
HE BUMPED HIS HEAD, FELL OUT OF BED,
AND HE COULDN'T GET UP IN THE MORNING.
Where learned: OHIO ; YOUNGSTOWN
| Subject headings: | 730 Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 00001950S AND 00001960S