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WHEN YOU ARE IN THE KITCHEN FRYING MEAT--
THINK OF ME AND MY BIG FEET.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; MISSOURI ; GROSSE POINTE ; BIRCH TREE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Remember me |
Date learned: 00-00-1939
BELIEVE ME, MY DEAR--
YOU'D BETTER LOCK YOUR HEART
IN AN OLD TIN TRUNK
AND SAVE IT FOR A FELLOW
THAT DON'T GET DRUNK.
(THEY MAKE YOU TO (?) UNHAPPY)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; MISSOURI ; GROSSE POINTE ; BIRCH TREE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Reading or writing backwards, upside down |
Date learned: 00-00-1939
WHEN YOU GET MARRIED AND LIVE UP STAIRS,
DON'T COME TO ME FOR DINING ROOM CHAIRS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony |
Date learned: 03-01-1972
WHEN YOU GET MARRIED
AND YOUR HUSBAND GETS CROSS
JUST PICK UP THE ROLLING PIN
AND SHOW HIM WHO'S BOSS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony |
Date learned: 03-01-1972
WHEN YOU GET MARRIED
AND HAVE TWINS,
DON'T COME TO ME
FOR SAFETY PINS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony |
Date learned: 03-01-1972
BELIEF ABOUT CRIMINALS
A CRIMINAL ALWAYS RETURNS TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Outlaw Criminal Bandit Pirate |
Date learned: 04-00-1970
BELIEF
PEOPLE WITH LONG FINGERS ARE USUALLY GOOD PIANO PLAYERS.
Where learned: GROSSE POINTE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 09-23-1972
SHOUT
"WATERMAN"
Submitter comment:
WATER DEPARTMENT PERSON YELLS THIS WORD AND THEN KNOCKS
ON THE DOOR. HE THEN ENTERS THE HOUSE TO CHECK THE
WATER METER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE WOODS
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
POLISH LEGEND
THE DAUGHTER OF PRINCE CRACOW, WANDA, THREW HERSELF INTO THE
VISTULA, PREFERRING TO DROWN RATHER THAN MARRY THE GERMAN PRINCE
RUDIGER. AS THE PEOPLE MOURNED THEIR PRINCESS, RUDIGER, DEPRIVED
OF HIS COVETED PRIZE, TURNED HIS ARMY FROM THE CITY. THUS CRACOW
WAS SAVED FROM THE GERMANS BY WANDA'S SACRIFICE, AND THE STORY OF
HER HEROISM HAS LIVED THROUGH THE AGES. THERE IS STILL A FOLK
SONG SUNG ABOUT HER:
WANDA IN POLISH EARTH LIES DEAD,
WHO WOULD NOT A GERMAN WED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE FARMS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Secular hero |
SINGLE YOU ARE
MARRIED YOU'LL BE
AS SOON AS YOU AND (NAME) AGREE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony |
Date learned: 03-01-1972
HOW DRY I AM, HOW WET I'LL BE
IF I DON'T FIND THE BATHROOM KEY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE WOODS
Keyword(s): URINATION
| Subject headings: | 730 Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 11-00-1969
MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY
OF THE BURNING OF THE SCHOOL.
WE HAVE TORTURED ALL THE TEACHERS,
WE HAVE BROKEN ALL THE RULES.
BEATEN MOM AND DAD IN A DIRTY GAME OF POOL,
AND THE SAINTS GO MARCHING ON.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE WOODS
Keyword(s): BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC PARODY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse |
Date learned: 11-00-1969
PROVERBIAL METAPHOR
NEVER SOIL YOUR OWN NEST
Submitter comment: FROM UNCERTAIN
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
Keyword(s): SCATOLOGICAL
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE: NEGATIVE ; CLEANLINESS ; DEFICATION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Number Emptiness, nothingness, zero PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
WHEN YOU GET MARRIED AND LIVE ON A HILL
SEND ME A KISS BY THE WHIPPOORWILL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony |
Date learned: 03-01-1972
WHEN YOU SEE A MULE TIED TO A TREE,
PULL OFF HIS TAIL AND THINK OF ME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony |
Date learned: 03-01-1972
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
AND WHEN HER HAIR GETS STRAIGHT AS PINS
I WISH YOU THEN A SET OF TWINS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; MISSOURI ; GROSSE POINTE ; BIRCH TREE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony |
Date learned: 03-01-1972 ; 00-00-1939
WHEN YOU GET MARRIED AND ARE OLD AND GRAY,
DON'T BE WEARY ON A RAINY DAY.
Submitter comment: FROM JUDY OSGOOD IN MY AUTOGRAPH BOOK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony |
Date learned: 00-00-1950
WHEN YOU GET MARRIED AND LIVE IN A FLAT,
SEND ME A PICTURE OF YOUR LITTLE BRAT.
Submitter comment: FROM AUDRY SCHMIDT IN MY AUTOGRAPH BOOK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony |
Date learned: 00-00-1950
WHEN YOU GET MARYED (MARRIED)
AND LIVE ON A LAKE
GIVE ME A PIECE OF
YOUR WEDDING CAKE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; MISSOURI ; GROSSE POINTE ; BIRCH TREE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Matrimony |
Date learned: 03-01-1972
IN THE SHOWERS OF LIFE
WHEN YOU NEED AN UMBRELLA
MAY YOURS BE HELD BY
A HANDSOME YOUNG FELLA.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; MISSOURI ; GROSSE POINTE ; BIRCH TREE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Good wishes (sincere) |
Date learned: 03-01-1972 ; 00-00-1939