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I WISH I HAD YOUR PICTURE
I THINK IT VERY NICE
I'D PUT IT IN MY ATTIC
TO SCARE AWAY THE MICE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
IF YOU SEE A MONKEY
PULL ITS TAIL AND THINK OF ME.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 02-08-1960
MY FATHER IS A BUTCHER,
MY MOTHER CUTS THE MEAT,
AND I'M A LITTLE HOT DOG,
WHO RUNS AROUND THE STREET.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
WHEN YOU GO TO KISS YOUR HONEY,
AND YOU FIND HER NOSE IS RUNNY,
AND YOU THINK IT'S KIND OF FUNNY,
IT'SNOT!!
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
James Callow Keyword(s): PUN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
I LOVE BOSCO, BOSCO IS GOOD FOR ME.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
James Callow Keyword(s): BOSCO=CHOCOLATE FLAVORED SYRUP, BRAND NAME.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
MAY THE BIRD OF KNOWLEDGE
CRAP ON YOUR HEAD.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 06-00-1967
IF YOU GET TO HEAVEN BEFORE I DO,
BORE A HOLE AND PULL ME THROUGH,
BUT IF YOU DON'T AND IT GET HOT
PEPSI COLA HITS THE SPOT.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
James Callow Keyword(s): POP SODA
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP,
MY JALOPY PARKED IN THE STREET.
IF IT SHOULD START BEFORE I WAKE,
I PRAY THE LORD TO PULL THE BRAKE.
James Callow comment: PRAYER PARODY
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 00-00-1969
ASHES TO ASHES, DUST TO DUST,
IF IT WASN'T FOR (BOY'S NAME), DEBBIE'S LIPS WOULD RUST.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 00-00-1963
BOYS LIKE BACON,
BOYS LIKE EGGS,
BOYS LIKE GIRLS,
WITH PRETTY LEGS.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 00-00-1963
ALBUMS ARE RECORDS KEPT BY DAMES
TO SHOW US THAT THEIR FRIENDS
CAN WRITE THEIR NAMES.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
James Callow Keyword(s): SEXISM
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 10-20-1967
DOWN IN THE VALLEY
WHERE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS
THERE SITS BILLY
SMELLING HIS TOES.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 00-00-1958
I SAW YOU IN THE OCEAN,
I SAW YOU IN THE SEA,
I SAW YOU IN THE BATH TUB,
OOPS, PARDON ME.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 00-00-1960
HOPE YOU GET AHEAD,
YOU'LL NEED IT.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 00-00-1964
NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP,
A BAG OF PEANUTS AT MY FEET
IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE,
YOU'LL KNOW I DIED OF A STOMACH ACHE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Autograph Verse Wisecracks, gags, silly stories, insults |
Date learned: 00-00-1963
LYNDON'S GRAVE
LYNDON AND LADY BIRD WERE OUT LOOKING AT GRAVESIGHTS. FINALLY,
LYNDON FOUND ONE HE LIKED: IT WAS THE ONLY ONE IN A WIDE FIELD
WITHOUT FENCES. WHEN HE ASKED WHAT THE PRICE WAS, THE PRESIDENT
WAS TOLD, "25,000 DOLLARS." "TWENTY-FIVE GRAND!" HE EXCLAIMED.
"BUT I'M ONLY GOING TO BE THERE THREE DAYS!"
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Secular hero |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
THE TRAFFIC COP
A TRAFFIC COP STOPPED A SPEEDING CAR CONTAINING LYNDON JOHNSON AND
MCGEORGE BUNDY. WHEN HE CAME UP TO THE WINDOW, MCGEORGE SAID TO
HIM, "OFFICER, DO YOU KNOW WHO THIS MAN IS? HE'S THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES."
ASTONISHED, THE COP SAID, "OH, MY GOD!"
"THAT'S RIGHT," SAID LYNDON, "AND YOU'D BETTER NOT FORGET IT,
EITHER!"
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Secular hero |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
LEGEND
DAVY CROCKETT'S EXPLOITS AS A FRONTIERSMAN WERE SATIRIZED IN HIS
OWN EPIC BOASTING. HE ASSUMED THE CHARACTER OF THE RING-TAILED,
ROARING BRAGGART--"HALF HORSE AND HALF ALLIGATOR"--WHO COULD OUT-
BOAST THE LOUDEST. ONCE WHEN HE AND A FELLOW HUNTER NAMED BEN
HARDIN WERE IN THE NORTHWEST, THEY WERE SURROUNDED BY INDIANS.
DAVY RUBBED HIS BACK AGAINST A GREAT ROCK, STRUCK HIS LEFT EYE A
FEW TIMES AND WITH ONE WINK, SENT OUT A BOLT OF HOT LIGHTNING THAT
SHATTERED THE ROCK AND KILLED THE INDIANS. DAVY SAID IT WAS NO
TRICK AT ALL FOR A MAN WHO COULD "WALK LIKE AN OX, RUN LIKE A FOX,
SWIM LIKE AND EEL, AND SPOUT LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE."
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Secular hero |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
KING ST. STEPHAN AND THE HUNGARIAN NOBLES
IN 999, KING ST. STEPHAN FORBID THE PAGAN SACRIFICE OF WHITE HORSES
BY THE NOBLES SO THAT THEY MIGHT BECOME CHRISTIANS. AND SO IT WAS,
UNTIL ONE DAY HE CHANCED TO SEE SOME NOBLES SACRIFICING THE WHITE
HORSES TO THE PAGAN GODS. HE DEMANDED AN EXPLANATION OF
THEMSELVES. HE HAD PROCLAIMED THERE TO BE ONLY ONE GOD. THEY
REPLIED: "THE HUNGARIAN NOBLE IS MAN ENOUGH TO HAVE TWO GODS."
Submitter comment: INFORMANT HEARD THIS FROM HER GRANDMOTHER.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
WILLIAM TELL
THE VILLAGE OF INTERLOCKEN WAS UNDER THE DOMINATION OF THE LORD
GESSLER. GESSLER WAS A VERY STERN AND CRUEL RULER. ONCE HE TOOK
OFF HIS HAT AND PLACED IT ON A STICK AND TOLD EVERYONE TO KNEEL AND
PAY HOMAGE TO IT AS IF IT WERE HIS OWN PERSON. TELL WAS A FARMER
OF THAT AREA, AND HE REFUSED TO PAY TRIBUTE TO THE HAT. BECAUSE OF
THIS, GESSLER WAS INFURIATED AND TOLD TELL THAT UNLESS HE SHOT AN
APPLE OFF THE HEAD OF HIS SON, HE WOULD HAVE TO GO TO PRISON.
(TELL HAD THE REPUTATION OF BEING A VERY GOOD HUNTER.) TELL COULD
SEE NO WAY OUT, SO HE TOOK TWO ARROWS, BUT SLIPPED ONE INTO HIS
SHIRT. HE LOADED HIS CROSSBOW AND SHOT THE APPLE OFF HIS SON'S
HEAD. GESSLER THEN ASKED HIM WHY HE TOOK TWO ARROWS. TELL
ANSWERED, "IF I HAD MISSED THE APPLE, I SURELY WOULDN'T HAVE MISSED
YOU." FOR THIS REMARK, TELL WAS TAKEN PRISONER, BUT HIS SON WAS
RELEASED.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT TOLD ME THAT THE MOTIF OF "AN APPLE BEING SHOT OFF SOME-
ONE'S HEAD" WAS FOUND IN EARLIER GERMAN TRADITION. THESE GERMANS
WERE THE SAME TRIBE AS THOSE THAT SETTLED IN SWITZERLAND.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Secular hero |