Astrology (Zodiac) Signs Mentioned In Foot Stomping Cheers (Part III: Q - S)

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part III of a four part series that provides an alphabetized list of all of the words only examples of foot stomping cheers that mention zodiac (astrological) signs that I have come across [as of November 13, 2024].

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/11/astrology-zodiac-signs-mentioned-in.html  for Part I  (Numbers- I of this series.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/11/astrology-zodiac-signs-mentioned-in_19.html for Part II (J - P). of this series.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/11/astrology-zodiac-signs-mentioned-in_24.html for Part IV (T - Z)

These examples aren't numbered as additional examples may be added if I come across them.

This series is a sub-set of a larger compilation entitled "Foot Stomping Cheers Alphabetical List". Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/foot-stomping-cheers-alphabetical-list.html for Part I of that series. The links to the other part of  that series are included in that post. That post also includes additional notes about the general topic of foot stomping cheers.

Additional information about a specific cheer may be found after that example in its entry in the foot stomping cheer alphabetical list.

Also, click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/05/an-overview-of-foot-stomping-cheers.html for the pancocojams post entitled "An Overview Of Foot Stomping Cheers (Part I- Characteristic & Sources)".

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NOTES ABOUT THESE EXAMPLES  
These examples are presented in alphabetical order based on the first number or the first letter of the first letter of the first word. 

The source (i.e. book, direct collection, or website) is given below the example along with demographic information and/or comments.

The numbers fthat are given below for the versions of a specific cheer in this serie may not be the same as the numbers for that cheer in the Pancocojams Foot Stomping Cheers Alphabetical List compilation.

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EXAMPLES: Q - S

REALLY (Version #1)
All: Really
Ah Hah.
Really.
Ah Hah.
Soloist #1: Really my name is Lisa.
Really my sign is Aries.
Group: Say what?
Soloist #1: Ah Aries.
Group: Say what?
Soloist #1: Cause I’m F-I-N-E fine.
Like a D-I-M-E. dime.
Don’t waste my T-I-M-E. time.
I’ll blow your M-I-N-D mind.
Cause I’m a pro.
Group: Say what?
Soloist #1: A P-R-O.
Group: Say what?
Soloist #1: Cause I’m a triple P.
Triple R.
Triple O.
Sexy pro.

 

(Repeat entire cheer with next soloist until everyone has had a turn as soloist)
-Lillian Taylor Camp, AA girls 5-13 years old; AA boys 5-7 years from various Pittsburgh neighborhoods, PA, 1991, 1992

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REALLY (Version #2)
Hey Yall are takin me back!!!

Does anyone remeber the cheers we used to do?

 

Really uh uh really uh uh
Really my name is kisses
really my sign is scopio
say what
scorpio
say what
cause I'm more than a dollar I can make your boyfriend holler cause I'm sweet and fine like a bottle of wine cause I'm a pro
say what
a P R O
say what
I'm a triple P triple R triple O
a sexy pro.
- kisses (Milton, Florida USA); http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=4123&page=3; 01-01-2001

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REALLY (Version #3)
Really uh huh really uh huh really my name is
(say your name) really my sign is (say your sign)
say what a (say your sign) say what cause Im
f I n e fine like an d i m e dime dont waste my t i me
time Ill blow your m i n d mind
-Deajaih; Pittsburgh, PA, 2/21/06, cocojams.com

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REALLY (Version #4)
Really, Really,
Really my name's_________
Really my sign is ________
more than a dollar
makes my man holla
he's a pro, P-R-O
Whoa!
-norelation, http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php/43158-Hood-Cheers/page 3, 8/18/2006

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REALLY (Version #5)
My boyfriend really did it!!
He really really really took me to the ocean!!!
He really really really showed me commotion!!!
He really really really!
I said really!
Say what now!

Really my name is ____
Really my sign is ____
Really etc etc.!!!!!!
-Yolanda Wells, 2015, (comment in discussion thread for vlog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfzHL_1PdbY; Let's Discuss: Black Girl Childhood Hand Games and Sing Songs")
-snip-
This example was reformatted from sentence form to line form for this post. It was part of the following comment:

"So interesting! Wow I was just talking about the same thing! I thought it was just me and one other person! I am so happy you posted this! I was wondering if we and other black girls were some how connected on some level like radio waves or something? I didn't know what to think! Because as you were saying, "How were these songs transmitted?! We just played singing them!"...

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ROCK THE BOAT (Version #1)
Rock the boat,
Rock, rock the boat
[repeat]
My name is Yasmin (rock the boat)
I know I'm fine (rock the boat)
Just like my sign (rock the boat)
My sign is Leo
I go bang-bang choo choo train
Wind me up and I do my thing
Reeses pieces butter cup
Don't mess with me, cause I'll mess you up,
Rock the boat, rock rock the boat...
-Yasmin H. (Latina female; memories of East Brooklyn, New York, in the late 1980s), 2/25/04
-snip-
Yasmin noted that the words in parenthesis were chanted by the other members of the cheerleading squad.

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SCORPIO (Fragment)
...what about just standing in the school yard @ recess time saying cheers:

Scorpio, sco scorpio...
My name is _______ "scorpiooo, sco scorpio.."
And I'm a Taurus "scorpio..." (why we called it scorpio, I'll never know...)
- tickledpink, http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=4123&page=3; 12-30-2000
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Each girl gives her sun sign and then the other say “Scorpio-oo scor scror piooo”

This cheer probably has the same tune as “Gigalo”. This reflects interest general public had in sun sign astrology.

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SHOO, SHOO, SHARIDA 

Words ----------------------------------Basic Motion

Shoo shoo Sharida ------------------------step, step clap, rock, clap

My name is Violet --------------step, step clap, rock clap

Shoo shoo Sharida

That’s what they call me

Shoo shoo Sharida

My sign is Pisces

Shoo shoo Sharida

And I can break it down-------------------------improvise

Shoo shoo Sharida

Real sexy now

Shoo shoo Sharida

Now take my goal post

-From Recess Battles: Playing Fighting, and Storytelling by Anna R. Beresin (University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2010, page 106, in the section of that book whose sub-title is "Steps"), performed by African American girls in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992

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STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN
Group: Stop, Look, and Listen
Soloist #1: My name is Shana
Group: Stop, Look, and Listen
Soloist #1: My sign is Aries
Group: Stop, Look, and Listen
Soloist #1: Mighty, Mighty Aries
Group: Stop *
Look
and Listen
 -TMP; remembered from the mid 1980s, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; transcribed by Azizi Powell in 1996
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*These words were chanted slower than previously words. For “stop" do the gesture that was used by Diana Ross & The Supremes in their song Stop in the Name of Love- hand held waist high palm up facing forward, arm half extended. No other gestures were noted for "look" and "listen" but it's probably that the girls did the standard gestures for those words. 

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SUPER SUPERSTAR
Super Superstar
Hey
Akira is my name
Superstar
Kickball is my game
Winning on my mind
Hey
Scorpio is my number one sign
Super Superstar
Hey
Super Superstar
Hey
Nathalee is my name
Basketball is my game
Winning on my mind
Hey
Leo is my number one sign
Super Superstar
Hey
- Barbara Mitchells & Bettye White, Apples On A Stick, The Folklore of Black Children (New York, Coward -McCann, Inc, 1983, p. 12)

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This concludes Part III of this four part pancocojams series on astrology in children's foot stomping cheers.

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