Burma Shave signs along Route 66 in Arizona, image by Ken Koehler.

Riot In Drug Store Calling All Cars 100 Customers 99 Jars Burma Shave	Spring Has Sprung The Grass Has Riz This Is Where Last Years' Drivers is. Burma Shave	Rip Your Face Slice Your Jaw Leave Your Face Raw Raw Raw Burma Shave	Henry The Eighth Sure Had Troubles Short On Wives Long On Stubble! Burma Shave
Listen Birds These Signs Cost Money So Sit A Spell But Don't Get Funny Burma Shave	You Can Beat A Mile A Minute But There Ain't No Future In It! Burma Shave	Is He Lonesome Or Just Blind That Guy Who Drives So Close Behind Burma Shave	It Would Be More Fun To Go By Air But We Can't Hang These Signs Up There Burma Shave
The Bearded Devil Was Forced To Dwell In The Only Place Where They Don't Sell Burma Shave	Don't Kiss Your Girlfriend At The Gate Love May Be Blind But The Neighbors ain't! Burma Shave	Folk's Wouldn't Feel In So Much Danger If We Still Had The Ol' Lone Ranger Burma Shave	They Missed The Turn Car Went Wizzin Fault was her'n Funeral his'n Burma Shave
Train Wrecks Few Reason Clear Fireman Never Hugs Engineer Burma Shave	Fuzzy Wuzzie Was A Bear Fuzzy Wuzzie Had No Hair So Fuzzy Wuzzie Wasn't Fuzzie Wuzzie Burma Shave	Don't Stick Your Elbow Out To Far It Might Go Home In Another Car Burma Shave	Do Not Pass On Curve Or Hill If The Cops Don't Catch You The Morticians Will Burma Shave
Win A Free Trip To Mars For Only 100 Empty Jars Burma Shave	Wild Men Pulled Their Whiskers Out That's What Made Them Wild, No Doubt Burma Shave	The Monkey Took One Look At Jim And Threw The Peanuts Back At Him Burma Shave	College Boys! Your Courage Muster Shave Off That Fuzzy Cookie Duster Burma Shave
Slow Down, Pa! Sakes Alive Ma Missed Signs Four And Five Burma Shave	Why Does A Chicken Cross The Street? She Sees A Guy She'd Like To Meet Burma Shave	It Makes Farmer's Daughter Plant Her Tulips Where She Oughter Burma Shave	True Is The Instinct In Man Which Salutes The Tiny Percentage Who Die In Their Boots Burma Shave
"Shiver my Timbers," said Captain Mack; "We're Ten Knots Out, But We're Turning Back; I Forgot My Burma Shave	Guys Who Want To Middle-aisle It Should Never Scratch Their Shrinking Violet Burma Shave	You Don't Have A Care You Don't Have A Worry You've Reached A Point Where You Don't Have To Hurry Burma Shave	Within This Vale Of Toil And Sin Your Head Grows Bald But Not Your Chin Burma Shave

Burma Shave Sign Collection by Lou Tull

Most people of today's generation have never heard of Burma shave, but ask anyone who lived in America from the 1920s into the early sixties, and you will bring up an extraordinary fixture of their past. Burma Shave was one of the world's first brushless shaving cream manufacturers and spawned heavy competition for their product, but this certain company had an upper hand in winning over customers. Burma Shave signs were the precursor to modern billboard signs on America's earliest roads. They were an interesting diversion from long drives and began to spring up all over the country throughout the mid-twentieth century. The signs were often humorous jingles that were placed at intervals along the road, each sign showing one line of the four-part rhyme until the last sign which concluded the clever advertising scheme with "Burma-Shave".

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