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