Lincoln Highway Association - The Traveler: Summer 2000


		The Traveler The Newsletter of the Lincoln Highway Association - California Chapter Summer 2000

Roadside Verse

The following are roadside rhymes used on signs by the Burma Shave Company. Between 1927 and 1963, there were 600 verses used. (From the book The Verse by the Side of the Road: The Story of the Burma-Shave Signs and Jingles by Frank Rowsome, Jr.)

1930

ONE POUND 85¢
HALF POUND 50¢
BIG TUBE 35¢
DON'T PUT IT OFF
PUT IT ON
BURMA-SHAVE

SHAVING BRUSHES
SUCH A BOTHER
BURMA-SHAVE
LOOKS GOOD
TO
FATHER

DOES YOUR HUSBAND
MISBEHAVE
GRUNT AND GRUMBLE
RANT AND RAVE
SHOOT THE BRUTE SOME
BURMA-SHAVE

EARLY TO BED
EARLY TO RISE
WAS MEANT FOR THOSE
OLD FASHIONED GUYS
WHO DON'T USE
BURMA-SHAVE

1940

SAID JULIET
TO ROMEO
IF YOU
WON'T SHAVE
GO HOMEO
BURMA-SHAVE

WHEN YOU DRIVE
IF CAUTION CEASES
YOU ARE APT
TO REST
IN PIECES
BURMA-SHAVE

SUBSTITUTES AND
IMITATIONS
SEND 'EM TO
YOUR WIFE'S
RELATIONS
BURMA-SHAVE

HE MARRIED GRACE
WITH SCRATCHY FACE
HE ONLY
GOT ONE DAY
OF GRACE!
BURMA-SHAVE

Road Song

Music about driving and the lure of the highway:

On the Road Again
Ramblin' Fever
Viewing the World Through a Windshield
Graduate of Interstate U
Highways and Honkey Tonks
Long, Long Texas Road