Baby Erin - School House Rock (video & partial lyrics)

Edited by Azizi Powell

This post showcases the 2013 video "School House Rock" by Baby Erin. This post includes partial lyrics for this song as well as information about Bounce music.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Baby Erin and all those involved in the creation and performance of this song and video. Thanks also to the publisher of this video on YouTube.

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INFORMATION ABOUT BOUNCE MUSIC
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounce_music
"Bounce music is an energetic style of New Orleans hip hop music which is said to have originated as early as the late 1980s.[1]

Bounce is characterized by call-and-response-style party and Mardi Gras Indian chants and dance call-outs...
Typical of bounce music is the "shouting out" of or acknowledgment of geographical areas, neighborhoods and housing projects, particularly of the State of Louisiana and, to a lesser extent, Texas.[4]

The genre maintains widespread popularity in New Orleans, LA (the "Bounce capital of the world"), and the southern United States and has a more limited following outside of the Deep South. New Orleans' music has a long tradition of gay and cross-dressing performers as truly a part of musical culture, giving bounce music a significant degree of overlap with LGBT hip hop.[7][8]

Like crunk, Miami bass, Baltimore club and Juke music, bounce is a highly regional form of urban dance music. Nevertheless, bounce has influenced a variety of other rap subgenres and even emerged in the mainstream. Atlanta's crunk artists, such as Lil' Jon and the Ying Yang Twins, frequently incorporate bounce chants into their music (such as "Shake It Like A Salt Shaker") and slang (such as "twerk")."...

Another significant mainstream record influenced by bounce music was Beyoncé's 2007 release "Get Me Bodied",[11] and more recently, "Formation".

In 2010, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans featured an exhibition entitled "Where They At: New Orleans Hip-Hop and Bounce in Words and Pictures", examining bounce's origins, development, and influence.[11]

Bounce music plays a major role in the second season of HBO drama Tremé, which was broadcast in 2011 and is set in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The season's second episode, "Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky", features a performance by bounce artists Big Freedia and Sissy Nobby.[12] Bounce music also became popular in Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina."

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NOTE ABOUT THIS TRANSCRIPTION
This is my transcription of the words that Baby Erin & the other girl dancers sing, usually in a call & response pattern. This transcription doesn't purport to be exact as it doesn't give the exact number of times that words such as "school house rock", "shake it", and "yeah" are repeated. I also didn't attempt to transcribe the words that are rapped by the man in this video. Additions & corrections are welcome.

LYRICS - SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK
(a sung by Baby Erin & other dancers)

1, 2, 3, 4
Grab my coat out the door.
5, 6, 7, 8
Catch the bus I can’t be late.

They never did like me.
School house rock.
School house rock.
School house.

School house rock.

Everybody do it.
Do it.
Yeah!

School House rock.
School house rock.
School house.
School house rock.
Everybody do the school house rock.
Yeah.
Yeah.

If you’re in first grade
Shake ah, shake ah leg.

If you’re in second grade
Shake ah, shake ah leg.

If you’re in third grade
Shake ah, shake ah leg.

If you’re in fourth grade
Shake ah, shake ah leg.

Shake shake shake shake ah leg.

Shake it!
Shake it!
Shake it!

Yeah!
Everybody, shake it!

Do it like Baby Erin.

Everybody do the school house rock.

Yeah!
Pop!
Pop!

School house rock.
Pop Pop Pop Pop.
School house rock.
Pop pop pop pop.

Who is that rhyming in the back of y’all?
[man’s rap]

East side
Hollywood.
East side
Hollywood.
East side.
East side.
Hollywood.
East side.
Hollywood.
East side.
-snip-
"They never did like me" is a saying that has been used outside of this video. It's a way of bragging on (bragging about) yourself. If you have haters (people who never liked you), it's because they are jealous of the way you look or dance, or other characteristics and/or behaviors that people might be envious of. Hat tip to my daughter for explaining this saying to me.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO- Baby Erin New Orleans Princess of Bounce video "School House Rock"



Allgood, Tvshow, Published on Apr 10, 2013

...Baby Erin is New Orleans own Princess of Bounce music. "School House Rock" is her 2nd video and it was directed by the king of bounce videos "Ino" and the track was done by Flipset Fred. Baby Erin and classmates rock out the school when a substitute teacher comes to the class for the day....
-snip-
The song starts at .56 of this video

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