American Mother Goose (1940); Life like a snowflake (1947)

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LIFE LIKE A SNOWFLAKE

I forgot to include this one. There are a few Google hits.

July 1947, Utah Humanities Review, pg. 255:
May your life be like a snowflake,
Leave a mark, not a stain.

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THE AMERICAN MOTHER GOOSE
by Ray Wood
forward by John A. Lomax
New York: Frederick A, Stokes Company
1940

Pg. 3:
How much wood would a wood-chuck chuck
If a wood-chuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck as much wood as a wood-chuck would chuck,
If a wood-chuck could chuck wood.

Pg. 5:
Fishy-fishy in the brook
Daddy caught him with a hook;
Mammy fried him in the pan
And baby ate him like a man.

Pg. 7:
Mother may I go out to swim?
Yes, my darling daughter,
But hang your clothes on a hickory limb
And don't go near the water.

Pg. 12:
There was an owl lived in an oak
The more he heard the less he spoke;
The less he spoke the more he heard--
Good children should be like that bird.

Pg. 16:
Bat, bat, come under my hat
And I'll give you a slice of bacon,
And when I bake, I'll give you a cake,
If I am not mistaken.

Pg. 17:
Good-night
Sleep tight
Don't let the mosquitoes bits.

Pg. 22:
I know something I won't tell,
Three little niggers in a peanut shell,
One can read and one can write
And one can smoke his daddy's pipe.

Pg. 28:
Cry-Baby, cry,
Take your little shirt-tail
And wipe your little eye
And go tell your mammy
To give you a pie of pie.

Pg. 44:
Left foot, right foot,
Any foot at all,
Sally lost her petticoat
A-goin' to the ball.

Pg. 46:
Chicken in the bread-pan,
Pickin' up the dough;
Granny will your dog bite?
No, child, no.

Pg. 59:
I'll eat when I'm hungry
And drink when I'm dry.
If a tree don't fall on me,
I'll live 'till I die.

Pg. 62:
Tommy was a man of law,
He sold his bed to lie on straw;
He sold the straw to lie on grass,
To buy his wife a looking glass.

Pg. 68:
Had a little dog, his name was Rover,
When he died he died all over,
All but his tail and it turned over
Over and over and ten times over.

Pg. 73:
Hound dog in the dinner pot,
Lick, lick, lick,
Chicken in the bread tray,
Pick, pick, pick.

Pg. 74:
Had a little dog
He had no sense,
Ran under the house
And barked at the fence.

Pg. 76:
When I am president of these United States
I'll eat molasses candy and swing on all the gates.

Pg. 78: (Post Office)
P with a little o,
S with a t,
O double f,
And i-c-e-

Pg. 80:
Doodle-bug, doodle-bug,
Home you must fly
Your house is on fire
And your children will die.

Pg. 82:
Barley-corn, barley-corn, Injun-meal shorts,
Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts.

Pg. 84:
God made man and man made money,
God made bees and bees made honey,
God made the hog and the hog made meat,
Good hog and hominy is hard to beat.

Pg. 86 (Riddles):
Eyes it has yet cannot see,
Tongue, but cannot speak to me;
And although it's well-behaved
Has a sole that can't be saved.
(A shoe.)

Pg. 87:
In summer it dies,
In winter it grows,
Its roots above,
It's head below.
(An icicle.)

Pg. 90:
Runs all day and never walks,
Ofter murmurs, never talks.
It has a bed but never sleeps,
It has a mouth, but never eats.
(A river.)

Pg. 92:
Adam and Eve and Pinch-me-tight.
Went over the river to see the fight.
Adam and Eve came back before night,
Now who was left to see the fight?

Pg. 106:
Round as a biscuit,
Busy as a bee,
Prettiest little thing
You ever did see.

Pg. 108:
This is mother's looking glass
And this is baby's cradle.
Pg. 109:
These are mother's knives and forks.
THis is mother's table.