A See Rock City barn with Burma-Shave sign

Past / Schoolhouses / Take it slow / Let the little / Shavers grow / Burma-Shave

Burma-Shave signs adorned American Highways from 1925 to 1963 in most of the lower 48. Typically, six small white on red rhyming signs posted in sequence along the roadside. Interstate highway speeds and Burma-Shave's sale to Philip Morris caused the demise of Burma-Shave signs. The complete text of the original jingles, as archived in The Verse by the Side of the Road, is available at Burma-Shave Jingles. Another repository is Burma Shave Slogans of the Fifties.

Burma-Shave Jingles

Burma Shave Slogans of the Fifties