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Tongue Twister
Following comment is made to someone who has insulted you. The slip of the tongue is intentional:
You're casting asparagus on my reputation.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Not really a tongue twister, is it?
Where learned: NEW YORK ; Syracuse University ; Syracuse
Keyword(s): INSULT ; Language ; PLAY ON WORDS ; PUN ; Reply ; REPUTATION ; RETORT ; WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
PROVERBS
IF THE DOG HADN'T STOPPED TO TAKE A SHIT HE WOULD HAVE GOT THE
RABBIT.
Submitter comment: TOLD BY HIS GRANDFATHER DURING A GAME OF BRIDGE.
Data entry tech comment: NONE
Where learned: RESIDENCE HALLS ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT CAMPUS
Keyword(s): ANIMALS ; OBSERVATION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
CUSTOM DEATH
PUSHING UP DAISIES
SOMETIMES YOU REFER TO DYING AS PUSHING UP DAISIES.
Where learned: SCHOOL ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT CAMPUS, ASSUMED
James Callow Keyword(s): EUPHEMISM ; PLANT ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 03-05-1968
WITCH BELIEF
TO BECOME A WITCH, TAKE ONE GOLD RING, ONE CANDLE STICK HOLDER
AND ONE SCARF; BURY THESE IN THE EARTH TILL THE NEXT FULL MOON;
AT THE NEXT FULL MOON, AT MIDNIGHT DIG UP THE RING, CANDLE-STICK
HOLDER AND SCARF AND BOIL THEM TOGETHER IN A LARGE POT. THE
CANDIDATE WITCH THEN RECITES CERTAIN MAGICAL PHRASES, AND THEN
EMERGES AS A FULL FLEDGED WITCH.
Data entry tech comment:
SPELLING CORRECTED BY KEY PUNCHER
Updated by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): MAGIC ; Spell ; Transform ; Witch
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Witch Shaman |
Date learned: 11-13-1970
RECIPE
RECIPE FOR SOUR CREAM YEAST DOUGH FOR KOLACH
2 CUPS DAIRY SOUR CREAM
2 PKG DRY YEAST (FLEASCHMANN'S)
1/2 CUP WARM WATER (105-115)
1/4 CUP MARGARINE
1/3 CUP SUGAR
2 TSP. SALT
2 EGGS
ABOUT 6 CUPS OF FLOUR
HEAT SOUR CREAM OVER LOW HEAT UNTIL LUKEWARM. DISSOLVE YEAST
IN WATER IN LARGE MIXING BOWL. ADD WARM SOUR CREAM, MARGARINE,
SUGAR, SALT, EGGS, AND 2 CUPS OF THE FLOUR, BEAT UNTIL SMOOTH.
STIR IN REMAINING FLOUR UNTIL DOUGH CLEANS SIDE OF THE BOWL.
KNEAD DOUGH ON WELL FLOURED BOARD UNTIL SMOOTH, ABOUT 10 MIN.
PLACE IN GREASED BOWL, TURNING ONCE TO BRING GREASED SIDE UP.
COVER, LET RISE IN WARM PLACE (85) ABOUT 1 HOUR, OR UNTIL DOUGH
IS DOUBLE. PUNCH DOWN DOUGH, DIVIDE INTO 3 PARTS ROLL INTO
RECTANGLE 14 BY 9 INCHES, SPREAD WITH BUTTER, ADD WALNUT
FILLING (ALSO CANNED MILK) (SEE RECIPE) ROLL, PUT INTO GREASED
CAKE PAN, BRUSH WITH BEATEN EGG,
LET RISE, BAKE 350-375 DEGREES FOR
ABOUT 20 MINUTES.
Submitter comment:
I PERSONALLY KNOW THAT THIS RECIPE HAS BEEN HANDED DOWN FOR
FOUR GENERATIONS AND PERHAPS MORE THAN THAT. IT ORIGINATED IN
YUGOSLAVIA WHERE MY GRANDMOTHER WAS BORN. THIS IS ONLY MADE
AT CHRISTMAS TIME.
Data entry tech comment:
Updated by TRD
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): CHRISTMAS ; CUSTOM ; Dough ; FOOD ; holiday ; RECIPE ; Yugoslavia
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 Pastry |
Date learned: 11-14-1971
Mandy
Mandy was a Bahama girl (2x's)
(Mandy oh Mandy, Mandy Mine. REFRAIN)
Dark Brown hair and eyes of blue,
love nobody else but you. REFRAIN
Met her on a Saturday night
Was the happiest night of my life. REFRAIN
Married her on Bahama sands
Put a wedding ring on her hand. REFRAIN
Mandy had a little baby
Had a baby just for me. REFRAIN
Baby made my Mandy cry
Cry so hard she was sure to die. REFRAIN
Buried her on Bahama sands
With her wedding ring on her hand. REFRAIN
Mandy was a wife to me
Now she's just a memory. REFRAIN
There's a teardrop in my eye
There to remain until I die. REFRAIN
Submitter comment:
Along with this song goes the belief that it should only be sung in darkness or at night or it will start to rain.
This song was learned at a Girl Scout Camp at age of fourteen.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are same person.
Where learned: CHILDHOOD ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Girl Scout Camp
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ballad Epic |
Left My Gal in the Mountains
Left my gal in the mountains
Left her standing in the rain
Went down to the railroad
Caught myself a midnight train
Beat my way to Georgia
Landed in a gamblin' town
Got myself in trouble
Shot a county sheriff down
They put the handcuffs on me
Put me on a pullman train
Took me to Atlanta
Tied me with a ball and chain
The jury read the verdict
Murder in the first degree
The judge says take this prisoner
To the penitentiary
Left my gal in the mountains
Left her standing all alone
Last night I dreamed I got a letter
Saying honey won't you please come home
She said she was lonely
Told me that her love was true
Then I dreamed I wrote a letter
Saying I'm a-comin' home to you
Then I woke up this morning
Lying in the Atlanta jail
No one here to love me
No one here to go my bail
Prison walls all around me
Guards a-walking by my door
My heart's so sad and lonely
'Cause I won't see my baby no more
Submitter comment:
Informant heard approximately 35 years ago in lumber camp at South Haven, Michigan.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; South Haven ; lumber camp
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ballad Epic |
Titanic
They built the ship Titanic
To sail the ocean blue
And they thought they had a ship
That the water would never go through
But the good Lord raised his hand
Said the ship would never land
It was sad when the great ship went down.
CHORUS:
It was sad, so sad, it was sad, alleluia,
It was sad when the great ship went down
To the bottom of the sea.
Husbands and wives and little children lost their lives.
It was sad when the great ship went down.
They were off the Greenland shore
When the water began to pour
And the rich refused to associate with the poor.
So they put them down below
Where they'd be the first to go.
Lady Astor turned around
Just to see her husband drown
As the ship Titanic
Made a gurgling sound.
So she wrapped herself in mink
As the boat began to sink.
They put the lifeboats out on that dark and stormy sea
And the band played on with
"Near My God to Thee" (sing slowly)
The captain sent a wire
But the lines were all on fire.
Submitter comment:
This song became popular at so many camps that it was banned by the American Camping Association in 1968.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CYO CAMP ; CARSONVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Ballad Epic |
BASEBALL BELIEF
NEVER TAKE THE GLOVES OF THE PLAYERS INTO THE DUGOUT. IT IS
BAD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT CAMPUS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Entertainment Diversion BELIEF -- Bad luck P882.1 |
Date learned: 03-04-1971
WHO'S GONNA BE YOUR MAN?
WHO'S GONNA SHOE YOUR PRETTY LITTLE FEET?
AND WHO'S GONNA GLOVE YOUR HANDS?
AND WHO'S GONNA KISS YOUR RED RUBY LIPS?
WHO'S GONNA BE YOUR MAN?
I DON'T NEED NO MAN.
I DON'T NEED NO MAN.
PAPA'S GONNA SHOE MY PRETTY LITTLE FEET,
I DON'T NEED NO MAN.
IF PAPA'S GONNA SHOE YOUR PRETTY LITTLE FEET,
THEN WHO'S GONNA GLOVE YOUR HANDS?
AND WHO'S GONNA KISS YOUR RED RUBY LIPS?
WHO'S GONNA BE YOUR MAN?
I DON'T NEED NO MAN.
I DON'T NEED NO MAN.
MAMA'S GONNA GLOVE MY PRETTY LITTLE HANDS,
I DON'T NEED NO MAN.
IF PAPA'S GONNA SHOE YOUR PRETTY LITTLE FEET,
AND MAMA'S GONNA GLOVE YOUR HANDS,
THEN WHO'S GONNA KISS YOUR RED RUBY LIPS?
WHO'S GONNA BE YOUR MAN?
I DON'T NEED NO MAN.
I DON'T NEED NO MAN.
BROTHER'S GONNA KISS MY RED RUBY LIPS,
I DON'T NEED NO MAN.
IF PAPA'S GONNA SHOE YOUR PRETTY LITTLE FEET,
AND MAMA'S GONNA GLOVE YOUR HANDS,
AND BROTHER'S GONNA KISS YOUR RED RUBY LIPS,
WHO'S GONNA BE YOUR MAN?
I DON'T NEED NO MAN.
I DON'T NEED NO MAN.
THE ONLY, ONLY MAN I EVER DID LOVE,
IS ON THAT TRAIN AND GONE.
THE LONGEST TRAIN I EVER DID SEE,
WAS A HUNDRED COACHES LONG.
AND ON THAT TRAIN WAS THE ONLY, ONLY MAN.
AND ON THAT TRAIN AND GONE.
Submitter comment:
I learned this at camp.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CAMP ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): INCREMENTAL REPETITION ; QUESTION AND ANSWER STRUCTURE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Love |
Date learned: 10-05-1967
The Skunk Song
I stuck my head in a little skunk hole
And the little skunk said, "Well, bless my soul!"
"Take it out! Take it out! Remove it!"
I didn't take it out and the little skunk said,
"If you don't take it out you'll wish you had."
Psssssssssssssssst! I removed it.
Submitter comment:
We used to sing this little song when I was a Camp Fire Girl.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Camp Fire Girls
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Children |
Little Shoes
Little shoes are sold at the doorway of heaven
And to all the tattered little angels are given.
CHORUS:
Slumber my baby, slumber my baby
Slumber my baby, a rou a rou
God will bless the children so peacefully sleeping.
God will bless their mothers whose watch they are keeping.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CYO CAMP ; CARSONVILLE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Cradle song Lullaby |