More Examples Of "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" From A 2010 Lipstick Alley.Com Discussion Thread

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents some examples of "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" from a 2010 lipstick alley.com discussion thread.

A quote about these chants from a now inactive website is included in this post along with two related videos.

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

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and featured in this embedded video. Thanks also to the publisher of this video on YouTube.
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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/10/yo-mama-dont-wear-no-drawers.html for Part I of a pancocojams post about this chant. That post includes a 1938 example of "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" that was published as part of the short story "Big Boy Leaves Home" in the Uncle Tom's Children collection of short stories by the African American writer Richard Wright.

Also, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/05/example-of-your-mama-dont-wear-no.html for a United States armed forces example of a running cadence entitled "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers. While that example comes from the United States Armed Services, "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" has its origin in African American culture outside of the military.

Click the "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" tag below for additional examples of that chant as well as examples of its much newer spin off "Your Mama Don't Wear No Socks").
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This pancocojams post was inspired by the trending tweet "YoMamaGate". That twitter hashtag was coined to make fun of Trump's hashtag #Obamagate that alleges that former President Obama did some unspecified criminal act or acts when he was in office or afterwards. Click https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/yomamagate-takes-over-twitter-everyone/28627/ for information about that twitter page.

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QUOTE ABOUT "YO MAMA DON'T WEAR NO DRAWERS"
Here's a great explanation about "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" from a July 15, 2008 post by Kymberli on a site that seems to be no longer accessible:
"Oh, but the best of all, I mean the absolute best and the one that we still play today is Yo' Mama Don't Wear No Drawers.

Now, before I say another word, let's get one thing straight. You have to put a ghetto lilt on the word "drawers." In this song, it's pronounced draaaws. Got it? Good. Now, the game is a song and the challenge is to take turns adding improv additional verses. It's an elimination game; you're out when you can't figure out a verse before your time is up. The first few verses are always the same, and after those have been sung, the improv verses begin."
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Since at least the 1990s, White Americans (and other races) campers have been introduced to a sanitized version of "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" which is titled "Your Mama Don't Wear No Socks". And those "poor" campers probably don't know that they are learning a pale imitation of a naughty, creative, pre-dozens insult exchange rhyme. Incidentally, "drawers" mean "panties"/"underwear".

"Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" is also chanted as a military cadence (jodie) and an adult drinking song. It therefore may be posted to websites that may not be suitable for children.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO: -Yo Momma Dont Wear No Socks



Brittney Weaver, Published on December 08, 2007

a sing along we use to sing back n da day so we thought we would make a video out of it. me and my lil sistas
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Here's my transcription of that video:

YO MAMA DON'T WEAR NO SOCKS
Chorus:

Ah ding dong dong dong dong
Ah ding dong dong dong dong

Yo mama don't wear no draws (ah ding dong)
I saw her when she took them off (ah ding dong)
She threw them in the tree (ah ding dong)
And the dog refused to pee.

Chorus

Yo mama don't wear no socks (ah ding dong)
I saw her when she took them off (ah ding dong)
She threw them in the sky (ah ding dong)
And Superman refused to fly

Chorus

Yo mama don't wear no socks (ah ding dong)
I saw her when she took them off (ah ding dong)
She put them in ah nest (ah ding dong)
And the birds refused to rest.

Ah ding dong dong dong dong
Ah ding dong dong dong dong
Rest in pea-eece
Ah ding dong dong dong dong
Ah ding dong dong dong dong

Yo mama don't wear no socks (ah ding dong)
I saw her when she took them off (ah ding dong)
She threw them on the wall (ah ding dong)
And the roaches refused to crawl.

Chorus"

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MORE EXAMPLES OF "YO MAMA DON'T WEAR NO DRAWERS"
From https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/finish-the-verse-yo-mama-dont-wear-no-draws.245106/

Warning: Some examples of this chant and some other comments on that page contain profanity. However, the examples below don't include profanity with the exception of the word "damn".

Numbers are added to these examples and comments for referencing purposes only.

1.CLIFF D, July 13, 2010
"yo mama dont wear no draws. I saw when she took em off. She laid them in the street....the cars said beep beep beep."

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2. "phatgirl, July 13, 2010
"Yo mama don't wear no draws. I seent her pull 'em off

She put 'em on the fence, them birds ain't been back since.

She put 'em in the washing machine, out jumped Mr. Clean.

She put 'em on the track, that train went rolling back."

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3. Maxine Shaw, Jul 13, 2010
"Yo mama don't wear no draws
I saw 'em when she took them off
She dropped 'em down on the floor
And the rats scurried for the door

Yo mama don't wear no draws
I saw 'em when she took them off
She put 'em out on the line
Now the sun don't even shine

Yo mama don't wear no draws
I saw 'em when she took them off
She draped 'em on the top of the head (toilet)
And now the Tidy Bowl man is dead

Yo mama don't wear no draws
I saw 'em when she took them off
She put 'em out on a dish
I could've sworn we was havin' fish!

(Yo mama's draws were a favorite topic of conversation among young boot camp recruits.)"

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4. Lafawnduh, Jul 25, 2013
"Yo mama don't wear no draws - hump deedump, deedump
I saw when she took 'em off - hump deedump, deedump
She threw them on the floor - hump deedump, deedump
Roaches don't crawl no more - hump deedump deedump

We used to sing these while marching cadence in AJROTC *memories*"

5. Kimmo, Jul 13, 2010
"Yo' mama don't wear no drawers. I saw her when she took 'em off. She laid them on the tracks- that train jumped ten feet back!

lol my mom taught us this one when she chaperoned a field trip when I was in 3rd grade.

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6. libramama, March 24, 2010
"Yo mama dont wear no drawers
I saw when she took them off
She put them in the bathroom sink
roaches said her booty hole stink

Yo mama dont wear no drawers
I saw when she took them off
she laid them by the front door
company wont come back no more"

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7. Aristochat, July 14, 2010
"yo mama don't wear not draws, I saw it when she took em of...

"she threw them in the washing machine. Damn things just wouldn't come clean...ya funky mama"

that's what we used to say...lol"

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8. nette0065, Jul 14, 201o
"I hate to admit this,but my mother taught me this song.She had 4 brothers and they used to battle to see who would come up with the funniest lines. I havent heard it in years."

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITORIAL NOTES
The first example that is given in that 2010 lipstick alley.com discussion contains the lines "the cars said beep beep beep. A form of those lines are found in African American girls rhymes that have the title or include verses of "My Mama Short And Fine".

Here's a YouTube video of a variant form of that rhyme along with my transcription of that video:
My momma short and fine



naskew01, Jun 10, 2015
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Here's my transcription of that video:
My momma short and fine
She got hair like mine
When she walkin down the street
All the cars go beep beep beep
All the cars go beep beep beep
Break it down now
[performs an up tempo stepping routine]
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Notice that in this children's rhyme "My mama short and fine" verses are self-complimentary. However in the "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" chants, the cars going beep beep beep" is a taunting put down of someone's mother.

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CLIFF D, the first commenter for that lipstickalley.com discussion also added this comment:

"a dingy dong dong dong dong"
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Variants of "ding dong" appear to be the standard refrain for "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" and its much newer children's camp variant "Your Mama Don't Wear No Socks".

However, notice that in the example given as Example #4 above, the "hump deedump, deedump" refrain is used instead of the ding dong dingy ding dong or other ding dong refrains.

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