| Traffic Safety from Burma Shave |  | IN 1926 THE BURMA-VITA COMPANY, WHCH WAS LOCATED AT 2318 CHESTNUT AVENUE WEST IN MINNEAPOLIS, BEGAN TO PLACE SIGNS ON RURAL ROADSWAYS IN MINNESOTA WITH CATCHY SLOGANS TO SELL BURMA-SHAVE, A SHAVING CREAM.
THE SIGNS WERE IMMENSLY POPULAR AND SPREAD TO HIGHWAYS AND RURAL ROADWAYS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.
THE COMPANY WAS BOUGHT BY PHILLIP-MORRIS IN 1963 WHICH BEGAN PHASING OUT THE SIGNS. THE LAST OF HE BURMA-SHAVE SIGNS WERE REMVED IN 1966.
MANY OF THE BURMA-SHAVE SIGNS HAD COMMON SENSE TRAFFIC SAFETY MESSAGES. THE FOLLOWING ARE A FEW OF THE MORE MEMORABLE TRAFFIC SAFETY RELATED BURMA-SHAVE MESSAGES.
No matter
The price
No matter how new
The best safety device
In your car is you
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On curves ahead
Remember, sonny
That rabbit's foot
Didn't save the bunny
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Around
The curve
Lickety-split
It's a beautiful car
Wasn't it?
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The safest rule
No ifs or buts
Just drive
Like every one else
Is nuts!
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A guy
Who drives
A car wide open
Is not thinkin'
He's just hopin'
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Violets are blue
Roses are pink
On graves
Of those
Who drive and drink
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Her chariot
Raced 80 per
They hauled away
What had
Ben Her
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He tried
To cross
As fast train neared
Death didn't draft him
He volunteered
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Train wrecks few
Reason clear
Fireman
Never hugs
Engineer
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Altho insured
Remember, kiddo
They don't pay you
They pay
Your widow
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Train approaching
Whistle squealing
Pause!
Avoid that
Rundown feeling!
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Better try
Less speed per mile
That car
May have to
Last a while
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Spring
Has sprung
The grass has riz
Where last year's
Careless drivers is
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Proper
Distance
To him was bunk
They pulled him out
Of some guy's trunk
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Drinking drivers
Don't you know
Great bangs
From little
Binges grow?
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Is he
Lonesome
Or just blind--
This guy who drives
So close behind?
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Heaven's
Latest
Neophyte
Signalled left
Then turned right
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Why is it
When you
Try to pass
The guy in front
Goes twice as fast?
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These signs
Are not
For laughs alone
The face they save
May be your own
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Drinking drivers--
Nothing worse
They put
The quart
Before the hearse
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Don't
Try passing
On a slope
Unless you have
A periscope
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Passing cars
When you can't see
May get you
A glimpse
Of eternity
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If daisies
Are your
Favorite flower
Keep pushin' up those
Miles-per-hour
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The one who
Drives when
He's been drinking
Depends on you
To do his thinking
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The midnight
Ride of Paul
For beer
Led to a warmer
Hemishpere
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Don't stick your elbow
Out too far
Or it may
Go home
In another car!
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When passing
Through school zones
Please drive slow.
Let's let our
Little shavers grow
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Thirty days
Hath September
April, June,
and the Speed Offender.
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Don't lose your head
To save a minute
You need your head
Your brains are in it
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Dim your lights
Behind a car
Let folks see
How bright you are
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Angels who guard you
When you drive
Usually retire
At sixty-five
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You can drive
A mile a minute
But there is no
Future in it.
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Car in ditch
Man in tree
Moon was full
So was he!
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Don't take
A curve at
Sixty per
We hate to lose
A customer
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Famous words
About lights that shine
If he won't dim his
I won't dim mine
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