The Singing Game "Jump In Jump Out" (also known as "Jump In Jump Out Introduce Yourself") Was Known Before The Gullah Gullah Island TV Series

iamtheman 95, Dec 27, 2021
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Here's the pattern for the words to this singing game:

"Jump in Jump out

Turn yourself about

Jump in Jump out
Introduce yourself

soloist - "My name is __

[the rest of the group] "Yeah"
soloist - "And I'm a ___ (Choose a verb for something that you like to do such as "a singer" or "a dancer").  
[the rest of the group] - "Un hun"
soloist ="Gonna be a ___
[the rest of the group] - Whoo!
Every day of my life
[the rest of the group -Everyday of his [her] life"

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Notice that the words "out" and "about" rhyme. In later versions of this song/cheer, the word "about" was changed to "around" probably because "turn around" is a much more common English phrase. However, I believe that the using the word "about" makes for a more "authentic" form of this song/rhyme. 

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Edited by Azizi Powell

Latest revision- June 6, 2022

This pancocojams post presents several videos of the children's singing game (cheer) "Jump In Jump Out". That song (cheer) is also known as "Jump In Jump Out Introduce Yourself).

Some general information about this singing game (cheer) is also given in this post.

The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, and recreational purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publishers of the videos that are embedded in this post.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/06/comparing-examples-of-introduce.html for a closely related pancocojams post entitled "Comparing Examples Of The "Introduce Yourself" Foot Stomping Cheers From The 1970s and the 1980s To The "Introduce Yourself" Cheer In 2006 Movie "Bring It On: All Or Nothing" "

  
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INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SINGING GAME/CHEER
It appears that a number of people in the United States associate the "Jump In Jump Out"  singing game with the children's television series Gullah Gullah Island. That singing game was included in four different episodes of that series from 1995 to 1998.
Here's some information about Gullah Gullah Island:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullah_Gullah_Island

"Gullah Gullah Island is an American musical children's television series that was produced by and aired on the Nick Jr. programming block on the Nickelodeon network from 1994 to 1998.[4] The show was hosted by Ron Daise - now the vice president for Creative Education at Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina - and his wife Natalie Daise, both of whom also served as cultural advisors, and were inspired by the Gullah culture of Ron Daise's home of St. Helena Island, South Carolina, part of the Sea Islands.[5]"...
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Here's some information about the series that included the singing game "Jump In Jump Out"
From https://gullahgullahisland.fandom.com/wiki/Jump_In,_Jump_Out
"Jump In, Jump Out is a song about people introducing themselves. It appeared in "Friendship-Just the Perfect Blendship", "Whose Friend Are You Anyway?", "James' New Buddy" and "Polliwog Day".
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original air date: September 20, 1995"...

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The song "Jump In Jump Out" is associated with the 1995-1998 American children's television series Gullah Gullah Island. However, "Jump In Jump Out" was known in the 1980s and the early 1990s before that television series existed.  

During the summers of 1988, 1989 and 1991, my daughter was a summer camp counselor for groups of African American girls ages 9-11 at Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania's area "Lillian Taylor Camp". During one of those session she made a casette tape of various foot stomping cheers that those girls chanted. The words for the example of "Jump In Jump Out" was also included in that casette tape although that song/cheer wasn't performed as a foot stomping cheer.

Read my Editorial Note in the Addendum below that compares the textual structure and the performance of "Jump In Jump Out" with foot stomping cheers. 

The words to that exaqmple of "Jump In Jump Out" are given as Version #1 in the Text Only Examples section below.

A commenter in a discussion thread for a video of children's performance of "Jump In Jump Out" that isn't embedded in this pancocojams post (partly because its instruction portion is too long) wrote that she knew that song in the 1980s.  Here's that comment and other selected comments from that discussion thread. 
"Jump In Jump Out" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KHvdeVrtAI (with numbers added for referencing purposes only)

Juz rhyme, 2020
"Man you stole this from Gullah Gullah Island, shame on you!"

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2. Shawn Harrington, 2021
"Except he changed the end."
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The Gullah Gullah Island version of "Jump In Jump Out that is embedded in this pancocojams post has the ending "everyday of my life". Incidentally, that is very similar to the ending for Jump In Jump Out" that I documented in the mid 1980s. However, "alright, alright, alright" is the ending that is used in the example that is being discussed in that discussion thread.  

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3. katie b, 2021
"Who cares? Lol"

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4. Juz rhyme, 2021
"@katie b  I do that is a song from our child hood fore fathers!!!"

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5. tanya givens, 2022
"I did this as a kid way before Gullah Gullah Island even existed in the 80's."

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SHOWCASE VIDEO # 2:  Jump In Jump Out

Dan Weir, Dec. 24, 2008

"Jump In
Jump Out
Turn yourself around
Jump In
Jump Out
Introduce yourself!"
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The soloist part ends with the words
"I want to be a ___ for the rest of my life.
[and the rest of the group echoes]  "For the rest of  her [his] life."
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Here's information about Camp Sizanani from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Sizanani
"Camp Sizanani was founded as a joint venture between Global Camps Africa, a non-profit headquartered in Reston, Virginia, and HIVSA, a South African foundation that provides care and services to HIV-affected individuals. Operating in the Magaliesburg area in North West Province, South Africa, Camp Sizanani offers multiple camp sessions throughout the year for children aged twelve through nineteen whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS. The term HIV-affected can imply that an individual is infected with the virus, but it can also mean that the infection of family members or guardians have impacted the individual's life. While some children at Camp Sizanani are HIV+, many more have been orphaned by a parent's AIDS-related death or have family members coping with the disease. Nearly all of Sizanani's campers come from Soweto, Johannesburg's enormous township, to which many black Africans were relegated during South Africa's apartheid era. The children attend the camp free of charge; they are sponsored by Global Camps Africa and its donors.

Goals

Sizanani takes its name from a Zulu word which translates idiomatically to mean "help each other". It is largely modeled on the North American summer camp tradition"...

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #3

MakeMusiRock, Aug 13, 2016

4th and 6th grade classes demonstrate how to play "Jump In, Jump Out," which is a fun name game/ice breaker activity for back-to-school. (Blur effect added to help protect the identity of students.)
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Children stand forming a circle. The children take turns being the "soloist". The soloist stands in the middle and says his (her) name and what he (she) likes to do [or what he (she) likes]. This version ends with the words "alright, alright, alright". 
The ending that is used in this versionof this so

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #4: Jump In Jump Out

Traci Patterson, Aug 23, 2018 
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Parts of this chant is accompanied by an adult playing the West African djembe drum. 

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #5: Jump In Jump Out

Rose Hill Junior Cheer, May 23, 2022
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Here are the words to this version of "Jump In Jump Out":

both girls:
Jump in Jump out 
Introduce yourself

soloist #1
My name is __
second girl- Yeah 
I cheer for the rockets
second girl- Yeah
When people see me
They go
[both girls chant]
ah Pump pump
ah Fist fist
ah Whoot! there it is
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Repeat the cheer with the second cheerleader as the soloist.
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"Whoomp!  (There it is)" is the title of a 1993 Hip Hop/R&B song by Tag Team.  A similar song, "Whoot, There It Is", was released by the Miami-based group 95 South a month prior to Tag Team's "Whoomp!"
Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoomp!_(There_It_Is) for information about those songs.
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I've seen other YouTube videos of cheerleaders chanting versions of "Jump In Jump Out", but this is the first time that I've come across that ending for that song/cheer. 

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TEXT ONLY EXAMPLES OF "JUMP IN JUMP OUT" 

JUMP IN JUMP OUT (Version #1)
All: Jump in, Jump out.
And turn yourself about.
Jump in, Jump out.
And turn yourself about.
Soloist #1: My name is Kadiyah.
Group (except soloist): Yeah.
Soloist #1: I like to dance, dance.
I want to be a dancer all the rest of my life.
Group: All the rest of her life.
All: Jump in, Jump out.
And turn yourself about.
Jump in, Jump out.
And turn yourself about.
Soloist #1: My name is Michaela.
Group: Yeah.
Soloist #1: I like to cheer, cheer.
I want to be a cheerleader for the rest of my life.
Group: For the rest of her life.

Repeat the cheer from the beginning with the next soloist and continue until every member of the group has had one turn as soloist.
-African American girls ages 9-11 years from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Lillian Taylor Camp; collected by Tazi M. Powell in the late 1980s or 1991, transcribed from cassette tape by Azizi Powell, 1996

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JUMP IN JUMP OUT (Version #2)
I remember this from a show i watched:

jump in jump out turn yourself around. jump in jump out
introduce yourself my name is keisysha. what. i'm nine
huh. and i'm so fine everyday of my life. everyday of her life.

and you go on until everyone gets a turn. and don't forget to rhyme.
have fun. but i wish i new more but i'm only 12. bye and keep sending chants.
-db, 3/08/2006, cocojams.com
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cocojams.com is the name of my no longer active cultural website. A large number of children, pre-teens, and teenagers contributed examples of rhymes, cheers, and singing games to that site on an easy to use internal page that didn't need an email adress. A note on that page encouraged contributors to include their first name only, their age, the city/state where they lived, along with other demographic information, and how the rhyme/chant etc was played. However, most of the contributors just shared their name and the words to the example that they were sharing. 

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JUMP IN JUMP OUT (Version #3)
Jump in jump out introduce yo self (2x) my name is
Shakyra (yea) i go to school (yea) im not the teacher
(yea) i kno the rules (yea kno them rules)

keep on doing it to everybody had a turn
-Shakyra P; 5/8/2007, cocojams.com

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JUMP IN JUMP OUT (Version #4)
ALL: jump in jump out turn yo self around jump in jump
out introduce yo self..... 1 PERSON: my name (insert
girls name) ALL: yeah 1 PERSON: i like to (say what u
like to do) ALL: yeah 1 PERSON: and im gone (what
ever you like to do) ALL: yeah 1 PERSON: for the rest
of my life ALL: for the rest of her life (go again with a
different person)
-Shay; 5/14/2007, cocojams.com

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JUMP IN JUMP OUT (Version #5)
I remember all of those, and now my daughter is bringing them home. Of course, she thinks that her compatriots invented them and that I'm the one with the messed up words - but she's wrong.

She taught me a new one (new to me at least) - not really a clapping game, but this thread reminded me of it...The kids play this and insert their names and a little something about themselves...

Everyone:

Jump in (clap clap)
Jump out (clap clap)
In-troduce yourself (clap clap)

(clapping continues)

Person who jumped in and out:

My name is Stephanie (yeah)
And I'm a drama queen (uh-huh)
I like to sing (yeah)
And I like chocolate cake (uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh).

It can get pretty amusing to see what the kids have to say about themselves.
- Icon 01, 13 February, 2003, http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=95;t=000442;p=1, "Skipping and clapping rhymes" [This link is no longer active.]

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ADDENDUM - THE TEXTUAL STRUCTURE & PERFORMANCE OF "JUMP IN JUMP OUT" COMPARED TO THE TEXTUAL STRUCTURE & PERFORMANCE OF LINE DANCING

The textual structure of "Jump In Jump Out" is the same as the textual structure for compositions that I call "foot stomping cheers". Foot stomping cheers have a signature call & response textual composition style & delivery that I call "group voice/consecutive soloist". "Group voice/Consecutive soloists" means that the group (usually without the soloist) begins the cheer and the group voice and soloist voice respond to each other throughout the composition. Once one iteration of the cheer ends, it is immediately repeated (with minor individualizations) from the beginning. This pattern continues until every member of the group has had the same equal turn as the soloist.

The movements done for "Jump In Jump Out" aren't the same as those that are done for foot stomping cheers. Instead, "Jump In Jump Out" follows the movements indicated by its chorus' action words. People singing (or chanting) "Jump In Jump Out" usually form a circle with a soloist standing in the middle. The entire group sings "Jump in Jump out" while they jump forward and jump back. The entire group then turns around while tthey sing "turn yourself about" (or "turn yourself around). There's no other movement that is done with this song except for the rest of the group indiidually clapping their hands one time when they respond to each line the soloist says.

In contrast, as its name suggests, foot stomping cheers are (or were) performed while the chanters did synchonized, choreographed bass sounding foot stomp and (individual) hand clap routines. Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/foot-stomping-cheers-alphabetical-list.html for more information about and examples of foot stomping cheers.

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