The Burma-Shave Legend

1940

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

SUBSTITUTES AND
IMITATIONS
SEND 'EM TO
YOUR WIFE'S
RELATIONS

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

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

ALL LITTLE RHYMING
JOKES ASIDE
DON'T BE CONTENT
UNTIL YOU'VE
TRIED
COLLEGE CUTIE
PIGSKIN HERO
BRISTLY KISS
HERO
ZERO
YOU CAN'T REACH 80
HALE AND HEARTY
BY DRIVING 80
HOME FROM
PARTY
BUY A JAR
TAKE IT FROM ME
THERE'S SO
MUCH IN IT
THE LAST HALF'S FREE
HE'S THE BOY
THE GALS FORGOT
HIS LINE
WAS SMOOTH
HIS CHIN WAS NOT
ALWAYS REMEMBER
ON ANY TRIP
KEEP TWO THINGS
WITHIN YOUR GRIP
YOUR STEERING WHEEL AND
PUT YOUR BRUSH
BACK ON THE SHELF
THE DARN THING
NEEDS A
SHAVE ITSELF
GIVE HAND SIGNALS
TO THOSE BEHIND
THEY DON'T KNOW
WHAT'S IN
YOUR MIND
IT'S BEST FOR
ONE WHO HITS
THE BOTTLE
TO LET ANOTHER
USE THE THROTTLE
THE BEARDED DEVIL
IS FORCED
TO DWELL
IN THE ONLY PLACE
WHERE THEY DON'T SELL
DON'T PASS CARS
ON CURVE OR HILL
IF THE COPS
DON'T GET YOU
MORTICIANS WILL
SUBSTITUTES
WOULD IRK A SAINT
YOU HOPE THEY ARE
WHAT YOU KNOW
THEY AIN'T
WITH GLAMOUR GIRLS
YOU'LL NEVER CLICK
BEWHISKERED
LIKE A
BOLSHEVIK
PRICKLY PEARS
AND PICKED
FOR PICKLES
NO PEACH PICKS
A FACE THAT PRICKLES
A SCRATCHY CHIN
LIKE BRIGHT
PINK SOCKS
PUTS ANY ROMANCE
ON THE ROCKS

GUYS WHOSE EYES
ARE IN
THEIR BACKS
GET HALOS CROSSING
RAILROAD TRACKS

A CHRISTMAS HUG
A BIRTHDAY KISS
AWAITS
THE WOMAN
WHO GIVES THIS

JUST SPREAD
THEN PAT
NOW SHAVE
THAT'S
THAT

 

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