I have included a few amusing Burma Shave jingles from the 29 years of
signs that appeared along the highways from 1927-1963. Most are still
applicable to drivers today. The jingles are from a book by Frank Rowsom
Jr. and also appear on the Burma Shave web site.1
Don't Stick Your Elbow
Out So Far
It May Go Home
In Another Car
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Trains Don't Wander
All over the Map
'Cause Nobody Sits
In the
Engineer's Lap
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Don't Lose Your Head
To Gain a Minute
You Need Your Head
Your
Brains Are in it
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She Kissed the Hairbrush
By Mistake
She Thought it Was
Her
Husband Jake
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Drove Too Long
Driver Snoozing
What Happened next
Is Not Amusing
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Brother Speeder
Let's Rehearse
All Together
Good Morning, Nurse
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Cautious Rider
To Her Reckless Dear
Let's Have less Bull
And
a Little More Steer
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Speed Was High
Weather Was Not
Tires Were Thin
X Marks the Spot
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The Midnight Ride
Of Paul for Beer
Led to a Warmer
Hemisphere
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Around the Curve
Lickety-split
Beautiful Car
Wasn't It?
Burma
Shave
No Matter the Price
No Matter How New
The Best Safety Device
In
the Car Is You
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A Guy Who Drives
A Car Wide Open
Is Not Thinkin'
He's Just
Hopin'
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At Intersections
Look Each Way
A Harp Sounds Nice
But It's Hard
to Play
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Both Hands on the Wheel
Eyes on the Road
That's the Skillful
Driver's Code
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The One Who Drives
When He's Been Drinking
Depends on You
To Do
His Thinking
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Car in Ditch
Driver in Tree
The Moon Was Full
And So Was He.
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Passing School Zone
Take it Slow
Let Our Little
Shavers Grow
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He Saw the Train
And Tried to Duck it
He Kicked the Gas
And Then
the Bucket !!
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A Man a Miss,
A Car a Curve,
He Kissed the Miss,
And Missed the
Curve,
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If hugging
On highways
Is your sport
Trade in your car
For a
davenport
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Thirty days
Hath September
April,
June and the
Speed
offender
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Statistic prove
Near and far
That folks who
Drive like crazy
–Are!
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Men
With whiskers
Near their noses
Oughta have to kiss
Like
Eskimoses
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Don’t
Try passing
On a slope
Unless you have
A periscope
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