Edited by Azizi Powell
This is Part II of a four part pancocojams series on a paper survey of children's rhymes, singing games, and cheer that I prepared and distributed to a small targeted population in 1999 with a few additional surveys added in 2000 and 2001).
This post presents the titles of the rhymes, singing games, and cheers that were listed in that survey, placed in their respective sub-categories. That post also presents links to pancocojams posts or other online sources for the words to these titles.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/07/information-about-general-results-of.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. That post provides information & general results for the survey that I conducted in 1999 on American children's recreational rhymes, singing games, and cheers.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/07/race-gender-age-and-citystate.html for Part III of this pancocojams series on this survey. That post presents demographic results regarding that survey's respondents..
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/07/comments-from-some-participants-in-my.html for Part IV of this pancocojams series on this survey. That post presents comments about children's rhymes, singing games, and cheers from some of that survey's respondents. In addition, that post includes a few examples of rhymes, singing games, and cheers that some of the respondents shared on their survey form .
Thanks to all those who participated in this survey. Thanks to Tazi Hughes for helping me distribute these surveys in 1999 and tabulate their results between July 23-28, 2025. Thanks also to Marimba Johnson for distributing this survey to a small number of people in the Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area in 2001.
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As a reminder, on July 23, 2025, I found 112 completed survey forms for a survey on people's familiarity with 41 somewhat randomly selected titles of American English children's rhymes, singing games, and cheers. ("Cheers" here means a sub-category of children's cheerleader cheers that I referred in that survey as "sidewalk cheers", but which I later -apart from that survey- refer to as "foot stomping cheers."
This survey also included the title of what is now known as a children's camp song ("Ah Boom Chicka Boom"), a traditional African American folk song/dance song ("Juba"), and an African American religious song that has been included in a few records of American children's folk songs ("So Glad I'm Here").
My daughter Tazi Hughes and I tabulated by hand these surveys for the first time between July 23, 2025 and July 28, 2025.
My heartfelt thanks to all of this survey's participants and My sincerest apologies to all of the participants of this survey for my lack of attention to this survey project.
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CATEGORIES
These titles are given in alphabetical order under their respective categories.
Another widely used title (then and/or now) for certain examples is included in parenthesis after the title that was used in this survey. The titles in parenthesis weren't included in that survey.
CHILDRENS HAND CLAP RHYMES
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"I Don't Want To Go To Mexico" (also known as "Shame Shame Shame")-
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"Miss Mary Mack"
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"Miss Sue (from Alabama)"
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"Ronald McDonald"
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"Shimmy Shimmy Co Co Pa"
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"Slap
Billeola"
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"Stella Ola Ola"
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"Strolla Ola Ola"
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"That's The Way, I Like It" (This is also called "Shame Shame Shame")
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"Who Stole The Cookie From The Cookie Jar?"
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FOOT STOMPING CHEERS
"Ah Boom Chicka Boom"
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"Ah Rah Rah Ah Boom Tang"
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"Bang Bang Choo Choo Train"
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"Boom Boom Check"
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"Bull Dog"
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"Candy Girl"
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"Chocolate City"
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"Fly Girl"
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"Funky Chicken"
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"Hollywood Goes Swingin"
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"Hula Hula"
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"Humpty Danda"
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"I'm Fallin"
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"Jump In Jump Out"
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"L.O.V.E"
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"Really"
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"Shimmy Shimmy Co Co Pa" (or similarly spelled tiles, also known as "Down Down Baby"
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"Stop,
Look, and Listen"
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"Tick Tock" ("Boom Tick Tock")
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"Ting A Ling A-Ling"
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"Tweeleelee" ("Rockin Robin")
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"Two Way Pass Away"
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SINGING GAMES
"Coming Here To Get Married" ("We're Coming Here To Get Married")
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"Down In The Valley, Two By Two"
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"Head & Shoulders Baby"
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"Punchinella 47" ("Punchinella')
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"Rocky Road" ("Green, Green Rocky Road")
OTHER CATEGORIES
traditional African American folk song/dance song -"Juba"
Click https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=5072 Mama Lisa's World: Songs 7 Rhymes From Historical African American: Juba
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African American religious song- "
Click https://genius.com/Dan-zanes-and-elizabeth-mitchell-so-glad-im-here-lyrics
[Track 4 of 2013 album “Turn Turn Turn”]
This quote is from that same website:“So Glad I'm Here” by Dan Zanes & Elizabeth
Mitchell was written by Bessie Jones.
[This probably means that Bessie Jones wrote that version of that old African American religious song. Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Jones_(American_singer) for information about Bessie Jones(February 8, 1902 – July 17, 1984), an African American folk singer and gospel singer who shared songs and singing games from the Gullah Ceechee traditions and other African American traditions.
That Dan Zanes & Elizabeth Mitchell video of "So Glad I'm I'm Here" features Elizabeth Mitchell doing American Sign Language (ASL).
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Camp song - "Ah Boom Chicka Boom" ("Boom Chicka Boom")
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SOME INTERNET LINKS TO EXAMPLES OF AND INFORMATION ABOUT THESE TITLES
HAND CLAP RHYMES
https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2018/11/youtube-comments-about-apple-on-stick.html "Children's YouTube Comments About Versions Of "Apple On A Stick" Rhymes That Are Different Than The Examples That They Know"
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https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-real-origin-of-i-dont-to-go-to.html "The REAL Origin Of "I Don't Want To Go To Mexico" Rhymes (also known as "Shame" & "Shame Shame Shame")"
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https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/03/miss-mary-mack-sources-theories-early.html "Miss Mary Mack" Recreational Rhyme - Sources, Theories, Early Versions, & Other Comments"
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https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/12/sources-of-big-movie-rap-shimmy-shimmy.html Sources Of The Movie Big's Rap "Shimmy Shimmy Coco Pop"(Part I)
This is Part I of a three part of a pancocojams series on playground rhymes sources for the "Shimmy Shimmy Cocoa Pop" "rap" in the 1988 American movie Big. The links for those posts aew given in each of these posts.
https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2023/06/some-examples-of-down-down-baby-shimmy.html "Down Down Baby" ("Shimmy Shimmy Co Co Pop") Rhymes with chronological information from 1973 to 2023
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https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2023/11/stella-ella-ola-similar-group-hand.html ""Stella Ella Ola" & Similar Group Hand Slapping Rhymes (Examples with Geographic Locations) PART I (A-H)"
This is Part I of a four part pancocojams series that presents a compilation of examples of "Stella Ella Ola" & similar group hand slapping games that include information about their geographic locations. The links to the other posts in this series are given in Part I and in other posts in this series.
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https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/04/rockin-robin-tweeleelee-analysis.html "Rockin Robin (Tweeleelee) - Analysis, Performance Activity, & Text Examples"
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SINGING GAMES
https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-changing-faces-of-punchinella.html "The Changing Face Of Punchinella (history & song lyrics)"
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FOOT STOMPING CHEERS
https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/foot-stomping-cheers-alphabetical-list.html "Pancocojams Compilation Of Foot Stomping Cheers (Alphabetical List: Numbers - C)"
This is Part I (Numbers- C) of a five part series that
provides an alphabetized list of text (word only) examples of foot stomping
cheers. I'm referring to this compilation as the pancocojams (Azizi Powell)
compilation of foot stomping cheers.
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/foot-stomping-cheers-alphabetical-list_40.html for Part II (D - G).
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/foot-stomping-cheers-alphabetical-list_6.html for Part III (H-J).
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/foot-stomping-cheers-alphabetical-list_53.html for Part IV - K-O
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/foot-stomping-cheers-alphabetical-list_22.htmlfor Part V: P-Z
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This concludes Part II of this pancocojams series.
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