Dr. James T. Callow publications
Browse by
Questions or comments on this site? Please email davidsor@udmercy.edu.
The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
Your search for PENNSYLVANIA returned 515 results.
MY FATHER OWNS A BUTCHER SHOP.
MY MOTHER CUTS THE MEAT.
AND I'M A LITTLE WIENER
THAT RUNS ACROSS THE STREET.
James Callow comment: FRANKFURTER HOT DOG
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; GLENSHAW
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 00001929-1933
WEARING RED IS FOR DANGER,
WEARING YELLOW IS TO BE SANE,
SO WHY NOT WEAR WHITE
AND LOOK INSANE.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; GLENSHAW
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 00001929-1933
ASHES TO ASHES, DUST TO DUST,
IF WINE DON'T KILL YOU, WHISKEY MUST.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; GLENSHAW
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 00001929-1933
WHEN YOUR HAIR TURNS GRAY,
YOU'LL BE ON THE BAY ON CHRISTMAS DAY.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; GLENSHAW
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 00001929-1933
I'VE THOUGHT AND THOUGHT,
BUT THOUGHT IN VAIN,
SO NOW I GUESS,
I'LL WRITE MY NAME.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; GLENSHAW
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C761 |
Date learned: 00001929-1933
I'M NO POET,
I'VE NO FAME,
ALL I CAN DO IS SIGN MY NAME.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; GLENSHAW
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C761 |
Date learned: 00001929-1933
AUTOGRAPH BOOK RHYME
WHEN YOU ARE MARRIED AND SETTLE DOWN,
SEND ME A PIECE OF YOUR WEDDING GOWN.
Submitter comment: FROM INFORMANT'S JUNIOR HIGH AUTOGRAPH BOOK, 1929-1933
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; GLENSHAW
Keyword(s): ADVICE:POSITIVE ; MARRIAGE ; RHYME: ABCB
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse C730.345 Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony |
Date learned: 10-02-1971
Entry filtered.
I WISH YOU LUCK,
I WISH YOU JOY,
I WISH YOU FIRST A BABY BOY.
WHEN HIS HAIR BEGINS TO CURL,
I WISH YOU THEN A BABY GIRL
WHEN HER HAIR IS UP IN PINS
I WISH YOU THEN A PAIR OF TWINS.
Submitter comment:
THE FOLLOWING IS FROM INFORMANT'S JUNIOR HIGH AUTOGRAPH BOOK,
1929 - 1933.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; GLENSHAW
Keyword(s): BIRTH
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony |
Date learned: 10-02-1971
FRIENDS
TRUE FRIENDS ARE LIKE DIAMONDS,
PRECIOUS, BUT RARE.
FALSE FRIENDS ARE LIKE AUTUMN LEAVES,
FOUND EVERYWHERE.
Submitter comment:
FOLLOWING IS FROM INFORMANT'S JUNIOR HIGH AUTOGRAPH BOOK,
1929 - 1933.
Data entry tech comment: ADDED TITLE TO VERSE
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; GLENSHAW
Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Friendship |
Date learned: 10-02-1971
WHEN THE GOLDEN SUN IS SINKING,
AND YOUR FEET NO LONGER TROD,
MAY YOUR NAME IN GOLD BE WRITTEN
IN THE AUTOGRAPH OF GOD.
Submitter comment:
FOLLOWING FROM INFORMANT'T JUNIOR HIGH AUTOGRAPH BOOD
1929 - 1933
Data entry tech comment: ADDED COMMAS
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; GLENSHAW
Keyword(s): WISH
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Pious reflection |
Date learned: 10-02-1971
PUNCH IN AND PUNCH OUT
THIS GAME WAS PLAYED IN A STREET OR ON AN EMPTY LOT
WITH BOUNDARIES DETERMINED BY THE PLAYERS. AT LEAST
FOUR MUST PLAY. ONE PLAYER IS PICKED TO BE "IT"
BY USING A "COUNT-OUT" RHYME. "IT" OCCUPIED THE HOME
BASE AND COULD NOT BE PUNCHED WHILE ON THAT BASE.
THE OBJECT OF THE GAME IS FOR "IT" TO GET SOMEONE
ELSE TO BE "IT." TO DO THIS, "IT" HAD TO HOP ON ONE
FOOT OFF THE BASE AND PUNCH SOMEONE ELSE. WHILE "IT"
HOPS, HE CANNOT BE PUNCHED, BUT IF HIS OTHER FOOT TOUCHES
THE GROUND, HE CAN BE PUNCHED. IF "IT" MANAGED TO PUNCH
SOMEONE WHILE HOPPING, THAT PLAYER WOULD THEN BE "IT"
AND WOULD HAVE TO HOP BACK TO BASE OR BE PUNCHED.
ONCE THE NEW "IT" REACHED BASE THE PROCEDURE WAS
REPEATED. THE PLAYERS COULD NOT GO OUTSIDE OF THE
PREARRANGED BOUNDARIES. DURING THE GAME, THE PLAYERS
CONTINUALLY TAUNT AND HARASS THE PLAYER WHO IS IT (I.E.
"JOHN IS IT AND TOOK A FIT AND CAN'T GET OVER IT!")
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT PLAYED THIS GAME WITH HIS BROTHERS AND
FRIENDS IN THE 1920S AND 30S.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; GLENSHAW
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Athletic sport and exercise Gymnastics |
Date learned: 10-02-1971
AUTOGRAPH BOOK SIGNATURE
YOURS TILL NEL BLOWS HER NOSE ON YOUR HOSE.
Submitter comment: FOLLOWING IS FROM INFORMANT'S JUNIOR HIGH AUTOGRAPH BOOK, 1929 TO 1933.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; GLENSHAW
Keyword(s): FRIENDSHIP PROMISE ; INTERNAL RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Humorous allusion to love |
Date learned: 00-00-1933
OLD SAYING
WHEN YOU STAND AROUND AND KILL TIME, YOU DON'T KILL TIME, TIME
KILLS YOU.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT HEARD THIS SAYING WHEN HE WAS A TEENAGER DURING THE
1930'S.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; GLENSHAW
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-02-1971
SAYING
A GREEN CHRISTMAS MAKES A FULL GRAVEYARD.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT HEARD THIS FROM HIS MOTHER WHO SAID THE SAYING WAS USED IN
DUNDEE, SCOTLAND WHERE SHE LIVED UNTIL SHE WAS AROUND 30 YEARS OLD.
INFORMANT'S MOTHER CAME TO AMERICA IN 1912, THREE YEARS AFTER
INFORMANT WAS BORN.
Where learned: HOME ; PENNSYLVANIA ; PITTSBURGH ; TOLD AT
Keyword(s): DEATH
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 Predictions |
Date learned: 10-02-1971
IF SOMEONE LOOKS AT YOU THE WRONG WAY THEY CAN GIVE YOU THE
EVIL EYE---YOU GET VERY BAD HEADACHES AND THEY WILL NOT GO
AWAY. THE ONLY WAY TO GET RID OF IT IS TO GO TO SOMEONE
THAT CAN PASS THE EVIL EYE. THEY WILL SAY CERTAIN PRAYERS
AND SOON IT WILL GO AWAY AND RETURN TO THE PERSON THAT GAVE
IT TO YOU.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; GREENBURG
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Curse BELIEF -- Curer |
SUPERNATURAL STORY CONCERNING DEATH
IN 1935 , MY GRANDMOTHER, WHO HAD BEEN CARING FOR MY SICK GRANDFATHER
WENT OUT THE BACK DOOR OF HER HOME
IN GREENVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, TO PUMP
SOME WATER. SHE SAW A TALL YOUNG MAN WITH SHOULDER_LENGTH HAIR, LONG
ROBES, AND A STRANGE GLOW ABOUT HIM,
WALK AROUND THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE.
SHE FOLLOWED HIM BUT HE DISAPPEARED. THAT SAME DAY MY GRANDFATHER
DIED. SINCE THAT DAY,SHE HAS REPEATED THE STORY TO MEMBERS OF OUR
FAMILY, REFERRING TO THE YOUNG MAN AS THE "ANGEL OF DEATH."
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; Greenville
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Angel BELIEF -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 00-00-1957
RED ROVER
THIS GAME IS PLAYED BY FOUR OR MORE PERSONS. THE
PLAYERS FORM TWO TEAMS OF EQUAL NUMBER. EACH TEAM
FORMS A STRAIGHT LINE, JOIN HANDS AND FACE EACH OTHER
LIKE SO: (DIAGRAM ON 5 X 8 CARD SHOWS TWO TEAMS
FACING OPPOSITE EACH OTHER). ONE TEAM THEN DARES A
MEMBER OF THE OTHER TEAM TO RUN OVER AND BREAK THE
CHAIN OF THEIR TEAM BY SAYING, "RED ROVER, RED ROVER,
LET SO AND SO COME OVER." IF SO AND SO CANNOT RUN
THROUGH THEIR HANDGRIPS HE, THEN, MUST BE ON THEIR
TEAM. THE OTHER TEAM THEN REPEATS THE CHANT AND TRIES
TO CATCH ONE OF THEIR MEMBERS. THE GAME IS OVER WHEN
ALL BUT ONE MEMBER OF A TEAM IS CAUGHT.
Submitter comment: LEARNED THIS GAME AT GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; Greenville
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Bodily Activity Song: Game, Pastime, Sport |
Date learned: 11-30-1967
COUGH SYRUP
BOIL DESIRED QUANTITY OF FLAXSEED AND PUT LEMON JUICE IN IT.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT'S MOTHER USED THIS WHEN INFORMANT WAS A CHILD. (1920'S)
Where learned: HOME ; PENNSYLVANIA ; GLENSHAW
Keyword(s): FLAX
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00001920'S
POISON IVY
RUB SALT ON POISON IVY RASH.
IT WILL BURN, BUT WILL CAUSE THE RASH TO SUBSIDE.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT REMEMBERS THIS PRACTICED BY HER MOTHER
IN THE EARLY 1900'S.
Where learned: HOME ; PENNSYLVANIA ; PITTSBURGH
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 10-02-1971