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Burma-Shave jingles first appeared on the highway signs in 1927 and lasted nearly 40 years up to and through 1963. The two main themes the signs touted were the product of course and also safe driving. It was great fun driving down the ole two lane US highway, reading the signs.

Listed below is just a sampling of the hundreds and hundreds.

    1940's

    Brother speeders
    Let's
    Rehearse
    All together
    "Good morning, Nurse!"
    Burma-Shave

    'Mid rising
    Taxes
    Soaring rents
    Still half a pound
    For fifty cents
    Burma-Shave

    Approached
    A crossing
    Without looking
    Who will eat
    His widow's cooking?
    Burma-Shave

    Drove too long
    Driver snoozing
    What happened next
    Is not
    Amusing
    Burma-Shave

    Stores are full
    Of shaving aids
    But all you need
    Is this
    And blades
    Burma-Shave

    No man can really
    Do his stuff
    With a face that's sore
    Or a chin
    That's rough
    Burma-Shave

    First men buy it
    Then apply it
    Then advise
    Their friends
    To try it
    Burma-Shave

    If these
    Signs blur
    And bounce around
    You'd better park
    And walk to town
    Burma-Shave

    This is not
    A clever verse
    I tried
    And tried
    But just
    Got worse

    You can beat
    A mile a minute
    But there ain't
    No future
    In it
    Burma-Shave

    Sleep in a chair
    Nothing to lose
    But a nap
    At the wheel
    Is a permanent snooze
    Burma-Shave

    You've used
    Our cream
    Now try our blades
    Pair up the best
    In shaving aids
    Burma-Shave

    Don't lose
    Your head
    To gain a minute
    You need your head
    Your brains are in it
    Burma-Shave

    That she
    Could cook
    He had his doubts
    Until she creamed
    His bristle sprouts with
    Burma-Shave

    Famous last words
    "If he won't
    Dim his
    I won't
    Dim mine"
    Burma-Shave

    The wolf
    Who longs
    To roam and prowl
    Should shave before
    He starts to howl
    Burma-Shave

    Leap year's over
    You're safe, men
    All you cowards
    Can shave again
    With brushless
    Burma-Shave

    He saw
    The train
    And tried to duck it
    Kicked first the gas
    And then the bucket
    Burma-Shave

    Headline news
    For face
    And chin
    Now improved
    With lanolin
    Burma-Shave

    His face
    Was loved
    By just his mother
    He Burma-Shaved
    And now--
    Oh, brother

    When frisky
    With whiskey
    Don't drive
    'Cause it's
    Risky
    Burma-Shave

    1950's

    His cheek
    Was rough
    His chick vamoosed
    And now she won't
    Come home to roost
    Burma-Shave

    Twinkle, twinkle
    One-eyed car
    We all wonder
    WHERE
    You are
    Burma-Shave

    On curves ahead
    Remember, sonny
    That rabbit's foot
    Didn't save
    The bunny
    Burma-Shave

    When
    Super-shaved
    Remember, pard
    You'll still get slapped
    But not so hard
    Burma-Shave

    His brush is gone
    So what'll we do
    Said Mike Robe I
    To Mike Robe II
    Burma-Shave

    The wife
    Who keeps on
    Being kissed
    Always heads
    Her shopping list
    Burma-Shave

    Is he
    Lonesome
    Or just blind--
    This guy who drives
    So close behind?
    Burma-Shave

    Pedro
    Walked
    Back home by golly
    His bristly chin
    Was hot-to-Molly
    Burma-Shave

    Missin'
    Kissin'?
    Perhaps your thrush
    Can't get thru
    The underbrush--try
    Burma-Shave

    Clancy's
    Whiskers
    Tickle Nancy
    Nancy lowered the boom
    On Clancy!
    Burma-Shave

    A chin
    Where barbed wire
    Bristles stand
    Is bound to be
    A no ma'ams land
    Burma-Shave

    Dinah doesn't
    Treat him right
    But if he'd
    Shave
    Dyna-mite!
    Burma-Shave

    To change that
    Shaving job
    To joy
    You gotta use
    The real McCoy
    Burma-Shave

    Tho stiff
    The beard
    That Nature gave
    It shaves
    Like down with
    Burma-Shave

    His crop of
    Whiskers
    Needed reaping
    That's what kept
    His Lena leaping
    Burma-Shave

    The blackened forest
    Smoulders yet
    Because
    He flipped
    A cigaret
    Burma-Shave

    The draftee
    Tried a tube
    And purred
    Well whaddya know
    I've been defurred
    Burma-Shave

    This cooling shave
    Will never fail
    To stamp
    Its user
    First class male
    Burma-Shave

    Drinking drivers--
    Nothing worse
    They put
    The quart
    Before the hearse
    Burma-Shave

    Men
    With whiskers
    'Neath their noses
    Oughta have to kiss
    Like eskimoses
    Burma-Shave

    Said farmer Brown
    Who's bald
    On top
    Wish I could
    Rotate the crop
    Burma-Shave

    1960's

    This cream
    Is like
    A parachute
    There isn't
    Any substitute
    Burma-Shave

    Tempted to try it?
    Follow your hunch
    Be "Top Banana"
    Not one
    Of the bunch
    Burma-Shave

    Bristles scratched
    His cookie's map
    That's what
    Made poor
    Ginger snap
    Burma-Shave

    We've made Grandpa
    Look so youthful
    His pension board
    Thinks
    He's untruthful
    Burma-Shave

    Use our cream
    And we betcha
    Girls won't wait
    They'll come
    And getcha
    Burma-Shave

    Henry the Eighth
    Sure had
    Trouble
    Short term wives
    Long term stubble
    Burma-Shave

    Angels
    Who guard you
    When you drive
    Usually
    Reture at 65
    Burma-Shave

    Forest fires
    Start from scratch
    So think before
    You toss
    That match
    Burma-Shave

    Dim your lights
    Behind a car
    Let folks see
    How bright
    YOU are
    Burma-Shave

    Thirty days
    Hath September
    April
    June and the
    Speed offender
    Burma-Shave

    Others claim
    Their product good
    But ours
    Does what
    You think it should
    Burma-Shave

    Don't lose
    Your head
    To gain a minute
    You need your head
    Your brains are in it
    Burma-Shave

    If a gift
    You must choose
    Give him one
    He'll like
    To use
    Burma-Shave

    Pedro
    Walked
    Back home, by golly
    His bristly chin
    Was hot-to-Molly
    Burma-Shave

    If our road signs
    Catch your eye
    Smile
    But don't forget
    To buy
    Burma-Shave

    When the stork
    Delivers a boy
    OUr whole
    Darn factory
    Jumps for joy
    Burma-Shave

    Film protects
    Your neck
    And chin
    So your razor
    Won't dig in
    Burma-Shave

    A shave
    That's real
    No cuts to heal
    A soothing
    Velvet after-feel
    Burma-Shave

    If hugging
    On highways
    Is your sport
    Trade in your car
    For a davenport
    Burma-Shave

    In cupid's little
    Bag of trix
    Here's the one
    That clix
    With chix
    Burma-Shave

    A guy
    Who wants
    To middle-aisle it
    Must never scratch
    His little Violet
    Burma-Shave