@SAGINAWDANCESHOW, December 5, 2025
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This video doesn't show the beginning of this cheer. The words for this entire cheer are given below.
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Edited by Azizi Powell
Latest revision - May 22, 2026
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 two additional 2025 YouTube video shorts of stomp and shake cheerleading teams performing "You Make Us Go To Sleep".
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 (Harvest, Alabama) for creating this cheer and its routine and publishing a video of this cheer/s on TikTok.
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) cheer, a diss (insult) cheer, and a battle cheer.
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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...
entire squad: 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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This pancocojams post showcases two other examples of "You Make Us Go To Sleep" that have slightly different words.
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DESCRIPTION OF SPARKMAN HIGH SCHOOL CHEERLEADERS' NOVEMBER 2023 TIKTOK VIDEO OF "YOU MAKE ME GO TO SLEEP"
The "Y'all Tired" TikTok video features one African American male (the coach or a tall student?) and the remaining squad (all African American females. These Sparkman High School 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 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 to "Y'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.
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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THE DISCUSSION THREAD FOR THE NOVEMBER 2023 TIKTOK VIDEO
In this Sparkman High School video, "You Make Us Go To Sleep" is at the end of a longer "I'm Tired" cheer or is a second cheer that could be (and subsequently has been) chanted independently of the first cheer by a number of pre-university stomp & shake cheerleading squads.
In that November 10, 2023 "Y'all Tired" TikTok discussion thread commenters repeatedly requested the words to the beginning "I'm Tired" cheer. A few commenters shared the words
that they believed they heard. I believe that the comment given as #__ below is the most correct transcription of that portion of that entire cheer.
These comments are given in chronological order except for replies.
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. 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. Ty Lynn
"Ion know what they said but i think they ate 😂🔥"
2023-12-12
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6. 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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7..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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8. 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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The "You Make Us Go To Sleep" cheer begins immediately after the word "tired".
"Bob Jones" is the name of the high school that Sparkman High School was competing against in that basketball game.
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9. @J@zTh3.__.Dr3@m3r
"WE ABT TO GO TO SLEEPPPPP 😴 💤 🛌"
2023-12-24
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10. . Ariel Rosse
"I heard the beginning but after that they lost me😭"
2024-1-4
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11. [no screen name given]
"lolllll, we can never hear what sparkman be saying"
2024-4-11
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12. 😻Jayla
"Can we please get the words 😭 yall cheer ate"
2024-10-5
13. heartzzz444maddie_
2024-12-9
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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
I haven't come across any online statement online from Sparkman High School that someone (or more than one person) 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.
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 the December 5, 2024 video of this cheer that is embedded at the top of this pancocojams post 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.
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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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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- TWO YOUTUBE VIDEO SHORTS OF VERSIONS OF THE "YOU MAKE US FALL ASLEEP" CHEER
VIDEO #1 -
🏀🩶❤️ 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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Reply
@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?
(Entire squad) - "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 pretended to be sleeping, these cheerleaders didn't cover their bodies with blankets or anything else.
VIDEO #2- You Make Us Go To Sleep
@brittanymarie485 and @SaginawDanceShowcase, November 20, 2025
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Based on several comments in this video's discussion thread, this high school stomp & shake cheerleading team's name is "The Panthers". I don't know the name of the school and where that school is located.
Based on comments in Tik Tok videos and in other YouTube video shorts, this cheer and its routine were probably created by Sparkman High School (Alabama) in 2023.
Captain: You make us go to sleep.
Captain - I SAID
Entire Squad - We're tired and you make us go to sleep!
You tried to compete but now you gon' be beat
You make us go to sleep
You make us go to sleeepppp [cheerleaders pull out their small blankets and collapse on the bleachers, pretending to be asleep.]
*This is my attempt at transcribing this cheer mostly from the captions on the video and from two other online examples of that cheer. Additions and corrections are welcome.
🏀💛🖤 YOU
MAKE US GO TO SLEEP CHEER 📣 #cheer #cheerleading
#highschoolbasketball #shorts
https://youtube.com/shorts/S7KUE4vHOPs?si=w_hBuIOkl3_EShXz
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