@SAGINAWDANCESHOW, December 5, 2025
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This video doesn't show the beginning of this cheer. The words for "You Make Us Go To Sleep" portion of this cheer are given below.
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Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases a YouTube video of Sparkman High School (Harvest, Alabama)'s cheerleading team performing the cheer "You Make Me Go To Sleep".
This post also includes information about a Nov. 10, 2023 TikTok video of Sparkman High School's cheerleading squad performing the cheer "Y'all Tired" that includes the words for "You Make Go To Sleep" or at least a version of that cheer. Selected comments from that TikTok video's discussion thread are included in this post.
The Addendum to this post showcases a January 16, 2025 YouTube video short of another middle school or high school cheerleading squad performing this cheer. Parts of the words for this version of the cheer are given along with that video..
The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Sparkman High School cheerleaders and all who are associated with that cheerleading squad for introducing other cheerleaders and the world to the "Y'all Tired" / "You Make Us Go To Sleep" cheer/s. Thanks to all those who are featured in this video. Thanks to Sparkman Bsketball Cheer for publishing a video of this cheer/s on TikTok and thanks to Saginaw Dance Show, the publisher of this YouTube showcased video. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/02/examples-of-ate-up-ate-down-hard.html for the closely related pancocojams post with the title "Examples Of "Ate Up", "Ate Down", "Hard", "Clocked Their Tea" & Some Other African American Vernacular English Words & Sayings In The Discussion Thread For A "You Make Me Go To Sleep" Stomp & Shake Cheer".
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DISCLAIMER
i am an African American woman who is a self-described community folklorist. I've been interested in collecting, documenting, studying, and sharing African American children's rhymes & singing games, as well as African American children's, teens, and adults' chants and cheers since the mid 1980s.
I've never been a cheerleader and I've never been associated with any cheerleading squad.
I definitely don't consider myself an expert on Stomp & Shake cheerleading.
For folkloric, historical, and cultural purposes, please add to and correct information about and word to this cheer or cheers that are featured in this post by commenting in this post's discussion thread below and/or by communicating with me via my email that is given at the side of this post. Thanks!
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE "Y'ALL TIRED" CHEER
"Y'all Tired" / "You Make Us Go To Sleep" is a Stomp & Shake basketball cheer/s that can also be categorized as bleacher (stand) cheers and diss (insult) cheer/s.
DESCRIPTION OF THE NOVEMBER 2023 TIKTOK VIDEO
The "Y'all Tired" TikTok video features one male (the coach or a tall student?) and all other female members of the Sparkman High School cheerleaders performing that bleacher cheer in the gym during a basketball game. The cheerleaders are shown chanting and doing a cheerleader routine while standing in a school's bleachers during a basketball game. The cheerleading squad consists of all females and one male. The male looks older than the females, but that he may still have been a high school student at the time that that video was taped. At the end of the cheer that is now referred to as "You Make Us Go To Sleep", all the female cheerleaders quickly reach down to the bleacher, pick up an individual small blanket, flop down to the bleacher's seat, and cover themselves with their blanket (including covering their head). At the same time, that male cheerleader does a high leg lift holding own to his small blanket. He then jumps from the first bleacher and does a split on the gym floor.
In that November 2023 TikTok video the words toY'all Tired" appear to end with basically the same words as the now viral cheer that is known as "You Make Us Go To Sleep". Unfortunately, as is the case with most Stomp & Shake cheers, it's quite difficult for many people-including me- to understand what these cheerleaders are chanting. Being unable to understand the words that Stomp & Shake cheerleaders chant in their videos is a common complaint in discussion threads for almost all of these videos (that have discussion threads). I believe that is because Stomp & Shake cheerleaders chant with deep, bass voices in order to preserve their voices and enable themselves to be heard over the announcements and other noise of the basketball game. I believe those bass voices usually make it difficult to "hear" what it is the cheerleaders are saying.
SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THE DISCUSSION THREAD FOR THE NOVEMBER 2023 TIKTOK VIDEO
In that November 10, 2023 "Y'all Tired" TikTok discussion thread commenters repeatedly requested the words to that cheer, but didn't receive any response or any complete responses from anyone who knew all the words for that cheer. Here are some examples of those comments:
(Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.)
1.Mal Leslie💕
"We couldn’t even hear anything being said 😭"
2023-11-16
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2.❤️🔥 ❄️🐚🌺✨🫧💐🌬️😍📸
"Mann they acting stingy with the lyrics 😂
, but they ate"
2023-12-8
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3. nessa
"all u neee to know is that they going to sleep"
2023-12-10
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4.Ty Lynn
"Ion know what they said but i think they ate 😂🔥"
2023-12-12
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5.Mal Leslie💕
"I’m a “bob jones” cheerleader and we couldn’t understand anything until this video was posted💀"
2023-12-17
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6. [no screen name given]
"lolllll, we can never hear what sparkman be saying"
2024-4-11
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7. Ariel Rosse
"I heard the beginning but after that they lost me😭"
2024-1-4
8. 😻Jayla..
"Can we please get the words 😭 yall cheer ate"
2024-10-5
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9. heartzzz444maddie_
2024-12-9
A few commenters shared the words for that cheer that they believed they heard in that video Here are some of those comments:
(Numbers are added for referencing purposes only)
1. kennedy nicole 🫶🏾🤍
"SLEEEEEEEP 😝💤"
2023-11-10
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2. Pretty on purpose🤎
"translation : bob chose this and bob
chose that , you wack and you wack and you wack and you wack"
2023-12-10
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3. Pretty on purpose🤎
"wassup , get buck yall whole team really
ain’t tough. something about being tired and goin to sleep 😂 idk sh-t*"
2023-12-10
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*This word is fully spelled out in that comment. The words "idk sh-t" aren't part of the cheer, but are an indication that the commenter didn't understand what else was said.
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4. Yonnaaaa💕
"Ball choose this & ball choose that you whack you whack
and you whack ….blah blah bout to fall asleep is what I heard😭😭😭😭"
2023-12-12
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5. Jay K
"And then what’s up y’all get buck…y’all whole team really do
suck..that’s all I caught"
2023-12-13
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6. georgia<3
“bob jones this and bob jones that you wack and you wack
and you wack and you wack what’s up, get buck, yalls whole team really ain’t
tough, hold on hold on hold on hold on, ouuu yall tired."
2023-12-18
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7. J@zTh3.__.Dr3@m3r
"WE ABT TO GO TO SLEEPPPPP 😴 💤
🛌"
2023-12-24
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WAS SOMEONE FROM SPARKMAN HIGH SCHOOL THE ORIGINAL COMPOSER OF THE "YOU MAKE US GO TO SLEEP" CHEER?
I don't know if anyone from Sparkman High School has formally or informally stated that someone from their school composed the "Y'all Tired" /"You Make Us Go To Sleep" cheer/s.
Given how freely cheers have been "copied" (stolen) among Stomp & Shake cheerleading squads prior to the internet and since the internet, It may not be possible to determine without any shadow of a doubt who was the actual composer/s of the "Y'all Tired"/"You Make Us Go To Sleep" cheer. Adding to this picture is the fact that similar cheers can be independently composed by different people without any contact between those people. That may account for this example that was published by a commenter in the December 5, 2024 video's discussion thread for Sparkman High School's "You Make Us Go To Sleep 'video:
@heavenspickles, December 2024
"I was on my school cheer team last year
and we had one simliar to it and we said "What you said the cheer was weak
yall over there putting Us to sleep" and we did it 3 times and the last
time we fell out and pretended to go to sleep."
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Whether or not someone from Sparkman High School was the original composer of "Y'all Tired" / "You Make Us Go To Sleep", there's no doubt that they were the first cheerleading squad to publish a video of hat cheer online on TikTok on November 10, 2023. Also, there's no doubt that Sparkman High School's November 2023 video and December 5, 2024 video of this cheer are the videos that caused that "You Make Us Go To Sleep" to go viral online and among middle school and high school Stomp & Shake cheerleading squads.
Thank you, Sparkman High School cheerleaders!
Some video examples of the "You Make Us Go To Sleep" Stomp & Shake bleacher cheer have slightly different words and different movements. However, the end of this cheer as performed by the all female Sparkman High School cheerleading squad (in their December 2024 video) is what makes this video so popular. At the end of their cheer each cheerleader grabs their own small blanket that was previously hidden on the floor of the bleachers, flop down on the seat of the bleacher, and pretend to go to sleep with the blanket over their face.
While the female cheerleaders did the same actions at the end of their November 10, 2023 TikTok video, the viewers' responses to those actions were muted by their male cheerleader in that video making a dramatic jump from the bleacher to a split on the gym floor.
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WORDS FOR THE SPARKMAN HIGH SCHOOL VIDEO "YOU MAKE US GO TO SLEEP"
(as performed by Sparkman High School, Harvest, Alabama, YouTube video, December 5, 2024)
Captain: Y'all tired.
Team: You lame and you make us go to sleep.
Captain: I SAID...
Team: You lame and you make us go to sleep.
You tryin to compete but you know you gone get beat.
Sleep.
We bout to go to sleep. We bout to go to… Sleeeep....
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As indicated above, the YouTube video that was published by @SaginawDanceShow doesn't start at the beginning of this cheer. I believe that what isn't shown are the words as suggested in the comments about the November 10, 2023 TikTok video (whichever those words are).
The first words that the captain (or another cheerleader says) are directed to the cheerleaders on her squad. The solo cheerleader probably chants along with her team. The team's words are directed to the opposing cheerleading squad.
The word "lame" here means "uncool" (boring, unhip, not up to date with the latest "hip" culture).
The word "gone" means "gonna" ("going to").
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Two commenters in this YouTube video's discussion thread identified the name of the school that these cheerleaders are from. I googled that name and learned that that school is in Harvest, Alabama.
I watched the Sparkman High School's December 5, 2024 YouTube video and read most of that video's discussion thread comments (as of 9:35 PM EST Feb.4, 2025) before searching for and watching their November 10, 2023 Sparkman High School 's TikTok video and reading most of their comments.
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ADDENDUM- A VIDEO SHORT OF ANOTHER VERSION OF THE "YOU MAKE US FALL ASLEEP" CHEER
🏀🩶❤️ YOU MAKE US GO TO SLEEP 📣 #cheer #cheerleading #highschoolbasketball
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Here are two comments from this video's discussion thread:
@Kelsey-s1j, January 2025
"How do the song go aka the cheer"
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@SAGINAWDANCESHOW, 2025
"You mad and u make us go to sleep
You tried to compete but know u gon repeat"
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This video doesn't begin at the beginning of the cheer.
Here are the words that I think they are saying for this version of this cheer:.
(One cheerleader): You what?
(Team) - "You mad and u make us go to sleep.
You tried to compete but know you gone be beat
You mad and you make us go to sleep.
You make us go to ooooo [team flops down as if sleeping]
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When they pretend to be sleeping, these cheerleaders don't cover their bodies with blankets or anything else.
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