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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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Children's Rime
Does your nose run, do your feet smell?
Why, then you're built upside down.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE ; Goucher College
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Maxim
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Submitter comment:
Supposedly said by Abraham Lincoln.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE ; Goucher College
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Folk Speech
I haven't seen you in "a month of Sundays."
(Folk way of saying, in a long time.)
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE ; Goucher College
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Children's Play Song
Chorus:
Boom, Boom, ain't it great to be crazy
Boom, Boom, ain't it great to be crazy
A horse and a flea and three blind mice
Sat on a table shooting dice
The horse, he slept and fell on the flea
Oops said the flea, there's a horse on me (chorus)
Eli, Eli, he sells sox
A dollar for a pair, a nickel for a box
The longer you wear 'em, the shorter they get
You put 'em in the water and they don't get wet (chorus)
A man sells a pair of Venetian underwear
He wore 'em nine months without a single tear
Wore 'em nine months, without exageration
Couldn't take 'em off 'cause he lost the combination (chorus)
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE ; Goucher College
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Riddle
Why do people usually tap the side of their coffee or tea cup, after stirring the contents?
Answer: Because you can see it (the contents), smell it, taste it, and touch it, but you can't hear it, so you tap it.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE ; Goucher College
| Subject headings: | RIDDLE -- Riddle Question |
Once through the lips, forever on the hips.
(Sign on the door of our cupboard.)
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE ; Goucher College
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Expression
Being "in the family way" is another way of saying being pregnant.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MARYLAND ; BALTIMORE ; Goucher College
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Missed me, missed me
Now you've got to kiss me.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Teacher, teacher I declare
I can see your underwear.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE ; Box 267
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
God is great
God is good
Let us thank him
For our food.
For by his hands
We all are fed.
We thank him for
Our daily bread.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE ; Box 267
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I should die before I wake
I pray the Lord my soul to take
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE ; Box 267
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Star light, star bright
First star I see tonight
I wish I may, I wish I might
Have the wish, I wish tonight
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE ; Box 267
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Peas, porridge hot
Peas, porridge cold
Peas, porridge in the pot
Nine days old.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE ; Box 267
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse |
The bows and ribbons from shower gifts are saved and used to make bouquets for bride and bridesmaids to use in rehearsal.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE ; Box 267
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage |
The number of seconds between a clap of thunder and a flash of lightning is equal to the number of miles away the lightning struck.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE ; Box 267
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Measure of space: distance, height, depth |
To blow--to regurgitate
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE ; Box 267
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Blow off--college students' term for neglect. Example--to fail to attend class is to blow off a class.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE ; Box 267
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Turkey--college term referring to a person (usually male) lacking in grace, poise or sense.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE ; Box 267
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Jukin'--dancing, talking or listening around juke box always done in connection with beer drinking.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE ; Box 267
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |
Plushing--the elimination of undesirable candidates during fraternity rush.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE ; Box 267
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Vocabulary of Special Group |