Teachers' Saucy Looks (1924); I Love Coffee, Tea (1925); Liar, Liar (1961)

Fri Jan 28 13:19:00 UTC 2005

My grandparents told me (1955) that their little friends used to say the "No more pencils..." rhyme in the '90s in NYC, exactly as given in Barry's post.

Both their versions had "dirty looks."   On the rare occasions when my grandmother used the word "saucy" in conversation she pronounced it "sassy." I don't believe my grandfather even used the word.  (Usually they used the synonyms "fresh" or "smart.")

JL

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I've been looking at this book of children's rhymes, mostly jump-rope
rhymes. It's a nice collection. Fred Shapiro must include some of these.
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RIMBLES:
A BOOK OF CHILDREN'S CLASSIC GAMES, RHYMES, SONGS AND SAYINGS
by Patricia Evans
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
1961
(copyright 1955, 1956, 1960, 1961)
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Pg. 31:
Acka-backa, soda cracker,
Does your father chew tobacco?
Yes. No. Maybe So. Ye. No, etc.
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Pg. 33:
Charlie Chaplin
Went to France
To teach the ladies
How to dance.
First the heel
And then the toe
Left foot forward
Out you go.
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Pg. 37:
I love coffee
I love tea
I love the boys
And the boys love me.
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Pg. 37:
Charlie Chaplin
Went to France
To teach the girls
The hula-hula dance.
First on the heel,
Then on the toe,
Round and round and round you go.
Salute to the Captain
Bow to the Queen
And turn your back
On the dirty submarine.
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Pg. 131:
I'm rubber and you're glue.
it bounces off me and it sticks on you.
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Pg. 132:
Liar, liar,
Your pants are on fire,
Your nose is as long
As a telephone wire.
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Pg. 135:
No more pencils, no more books,
No more teachers' dirty looks.
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Pg. 139:
Look up.
Look down.
Your pants is falling down.
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Pg. 142:
Goof morning to you,
You belong in the zoo.
You look like a monkey
And act like one too.
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Pg. 147:
Scairdy cat, scairdy cat,
Don't know what you're looking at.
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(NEWSPAPERARCHIVE & PROQUEST)
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_Jump-Rope Jingles; In the spring a little girl's fancy turns to an old
sidewalk sport. _
(http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=91094973&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1106883417&clientId=6588
2)
By KATHLEEN F. McDOWELL. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.:
Apr 14, 1946. p. 109 (1 page)
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Charlie Chaplin went to France
To teach the ladies how to dance.
Heel and toe and away we go.
Heel and toe and away we go.
Bow to the captain. Kneel to the Queen.
And give a salute to the big Marine.
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_Decatur Daily Review _
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=MHMeTXbgRjuKID/6NLMW2g8MtMfQZCKyMc1c9B3RWiMnyVnYmGViGw==) Wednesday, April
15, 1925 _Decatur,_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=city:decatur+I+love+coffee+I+love+tea) _Illinois_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=state:illinois+I+love+coffee+I+love+tea)
...the skIppIng. Her verse LOVE COFFEE, I LOVE TEA I LOVE the boys, and
the boys..
Pg. 6, col. 3:
THOSE "Flaming Youth" tendencies being manifest in the present generation
will be nothing compared to the generation that follows, if early indications
bear any weight. Three small girls at Gastman school were jumping rope--a long
rope, and the girl at one end was chanting cadence for the one in the middle
who was doing the skipping. Her verse was:
"I love coffee, I love tea,
I love the boys, and the boys love me
How many boys are stuck on me?
One, two, three, four, five, six--"
The little miss whose "turn" it was proved to have sixteen ardent suitors.
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_Jackie Crams on Knowledge of Holy Land_
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NP&TS=1106888179&clientId=65882)
Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File). Los Angeles, Calif.: Jun 8, 1924. p.
39 (1 page)
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Soon the boys and girls of Jackie Coogan's age will be singing the annual
vacation anthem--"No more history, no more books, no more teachers' sassy
looks."
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_ Decatur Daily Review _
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=MHMeTXbgRjuKID/6NLMW2l3oysEnhf/RIQ7ZpP8KnKd+C/D8AbE0ug==) Thursday, June
05, 1924 _Decatur,_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=city:decatur+no+more+books+and+no+more+teachers+AND) _Illinois_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=state:illinois+no+more+books+and+no+more+teach
ers+AND) ...MORE pencils; NO MORE BOOKS; NO MORE TEACHERS' saucy is
theory heard.....to decide the question in Saginaw AND MORE time will be needed
for MORE..
Pg. 16, col. 3:
"No more pencils; no more books; no more teachers' saucy looks," is the cry
heard today from the school children. Why? Because the last day of school,
that day so welcome to boys and girls from six to eighteen, has arrived.
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_Other 9 -- No Title_
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lientId=65882)
Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963). Chicago, Ill.: Aug 20, 1953. p. 16 (1
page)
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Vivian Volk's "modern" jump-rope song [Aug. 12] was in daily use at Parkside
school [69th st. and East End av.] back in the early 1920s. Another
variation was
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my mother, your mother,
Loved across the way;
Fifteen and fourteen East Broadway.
Every night they had a fight,
And this is what they'd day:
Acka-backa soda cracka, acka-backa boo!
Acka-backa soda cracka, out goes you!
Gloria C. Marsteller

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