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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

"Some Examples of "Dance Style Foot Stomping Cheers" That Don't Include Names Of Dances"

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents a small number of examples of foot stomping cheers that I categorize as "Dance Style" foot stomping cheers.

"Dance style" foot stomping cheers are a small sub-set of foot stomping cheers*. "Dance style" foot stomping cheers provide opportunities for people to show off their foot stomping and social dancing skills. Some dance style foot stomping cheer contains at least one dance of a dance or the name of a dance move/step. Other dance style foot stomping cheers focus more generally on dance and/or stepping movements. 

This pancocojams post presents some examples of foot stomping cheers tha I have collected from online or offline sources that don't mention the names of dances but focus more generally on dancing,,jumping, and/or other rhythmic motions.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/07/names-of-dances-that-are-mentioned-in.html for the pancocojams post whose title is "Names Of Dances That Are Mentioned In Black American Girls' Foot Stomping Cheers."

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/07/some-examples-of-introduce-yourself-my.html for the pancocojams post whose title is  "Some Examples of "Introduce Yourself (My Name Is ___"  foot stomping cheers".

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/07/some-examples-of-bragging-and.html for the pancocojams post whose title is  "Some Examples of Bragging, Confrontational foot stomping cheers".

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/07/some-examples-of-dance-style-foot.html for the pancocojams post whose title is "Some Examples Of Dance Style Foot Stomping Cheers."

Clickhttps://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/07/some-black-american-girls-ideas-about.html for the pancocojams post whose title is "Some Black American Girls' Ideas About & Expectations Of Romantic Relationships As Suggested By Certain Foot Stomping Cheers"

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/07/some-examples-of-dance-style-foot.html for the pancocojams post whose title is "Information About And A Video Of The Game "Tetherball" With Three Examples of "Tetherball" Foot stomping Cheers".

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those whose memories of these foot stomping cheers are included in this compilation.
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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/foot-stomping-cheers-alphabetical-list.html for Part I (Numbers - C) for Part I of a five part alphabetized pancocojams series of foot stomping cheers that I have come across online and/or off-line. The links to the other parts of this series are given in each post.

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SUB-CATECORIES OF FOOT STOMPING CHEERS
I've placed the foot stomping cheers that I've come across into these five different sub-categories:

-Introduce Yourself (My name is __) cheers

-Dance style foot stomping cheers

-Bragging/confrontational cheers

--Romantic relationships cheers

-Sports and games cheers

Most foot stomping cheers are combinations of more than one of these sub-categories.

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SOMEEXAMPLES OF "DANCE STYLE" FOOT STOMPING CHEERS THAT DON'T INCLUDE NAMES OF DANCES

These examples are presented in relative alphabetical order based on the first letter of the cheer's name. 

This compilation is only a small number of examples of this sub-category of foot stomping cheers that I have come across online or off-line.

A, B

A BULLDOG (Example #1)
Group: Ah bull dog.
Ah bull dog
Ah bull dog
Ah bull dog
Soloist #1: My name is Kayla.
Group: Ah bulldog.
Soloist #1: And I’m gonna show you how to work that bulldog.
Group: Ah bulldog
Soloist #1: First you roll it.
Control it
Then you bounce it.
Announce it.
Then you pop it
Don’t stop it.
Then you creep it.
Don’t sleep it. (or “Don’t weep it”.)
Then you stop,
Think,
A ring a ding ding.

Repeat the exact same cheer with the next soloist. Continue with this pattern until every member of the group has had one turn as soloist.
- Jasmine, Indonesia, Brittany, Kayla, Felicia, & Tiara (African American females ages 9-12 years), Alafia Children’s Ensemble, Braddock, Pennsylvania, Collected by Azizi Powell 10/2000

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A BULL DOG (Example #2)
A Bull Dog
A Bull Dog
A Bull Dog
My Name is Mellie (Yeah)
I came to show you Show you
How I rock a Bull dog A Bull Dog
And first you shake it (Don't break it)
And the[n] you roll it (Control it)
Then you pop it (Just Stop it)
And then you disco (Like Sisqo)
And then you dog it (Don't hog it)
Then you shoot it (Don't miss it!)
-Mellie York, Jun 24, 2017, https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/black-girl-rhymes-what-was-yours-growing-up.1196979/page-2
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This blogger noted that she was from Brooklyn [New York]

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A PANTHER
A panther
yeah yeah
a panther
ay what my name is Olivia
and they call me Ollie
yeah
and Im going to show you what this panther can do
first you shake it
dont break it
then you roll it
control it
then you pop it
dont stop it
sit down sit down
say what
sit down
-olivia; 9/16/2006; cocojams.com

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BANG BANG CHOO CHOO TRAIN (Evample #1)
Group: Bang, Bang Choo Choo Train.
Watch Indonesia do her thang.
Soloist #1: I can’t.
Group: Why not?
Soloist #1: I can’t.
Group: Why not?
Soloist #1: Because my back is achin.
My bra’s too tight.
My hips keep movin’ from the left to the right.
Group: Her back is achin.
Her bra’s too tight.
Her hips keep movin from the left to the right.

(Repeat chant with the next soloist who gives her name or nickname. The cheer continues with this pattern until everyone has had one chance as soloist.)
-African American girls ages 7-12 years; (Alafia Children's Ensemble, Braddock, Pennsylvania), 10/1997; collected by Azizi Powell. 10/97; also collected by Azizi Powell from African American girls 7-12 years; Pittsburgh, PA (11/2001 & additional dates through 2005 as a hand clap rhyme)
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Note: "Bang Bang Choo Choo Train" was often combined with the children's rhyme "Brick Wall Waterfall". These were by far the most popular recreational rhymes or cheers that were submitted to my cocojams.com website. That website was online from 2001 to Oct. 2014. A lot of children and preteens added examples of rhymes and cheers to that website by writing those examples on an easy to use page that didn't requite an email address. To protect underaged contributors, people who shared examples were asked to use either their first names only or their first name and the initial of their last name. 

However, I've observed that "Bang Bang Choo Choo Train" was (is?) usually performed since around 2005 as a hand clap rhyme and not as a foot stomping cheer. And, to my knowledge,  "Brick Wall Waterfall" has never been performed as a foot stomping cheer. 

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BANG BANG CHU CHU TRAIN (Example #2)
bang bang chu chu train it really goes like this in new York
(1 person) bang bang chuchu train
let me see u do ur thing
(2 person) i cant
(1 person) why not
(2 person) my back aches my belts to tight
and my booty is shakin from left to right left right left, left right left
-m&m; 10/7/2006, cocojams.com
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I'm not sure if this is performed as a cheer or as a hand clap rhyme.

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BANG BANG CHOO CHOO TRAIN (Example #3)
This was a song that we did at camp a lot, and the first part was sang by everyone in the group but the counselor usually picked the first Person B. Then as the verses continued whoever was Person B last would yell the name of the new Person B.

Person A: Peanut butter Reese's cup sing a song to cheer you up
Bang bang choo-chop train come on (person B) do your thang!

Person B: I can't!
Person A: Why not?
Person B: I just can't!
Person A: Why not?
Person B: My back's aching, my belt's too tight, my booty shaking from the left to the right

Everyone: to the left! to the right! to the left to the right to the left to the right! to the sky, to the ground, my booty's shaking all around that's right we're tight so rick-tick-tick-tick! hold on wait a minute put a booty in it! Jump! Shake your booty! Jump jump! Shake your booty!

(Repeat the song)
-Claire Jelagin, 2016; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55TnrD5re5g Do You Remember 90s Rhymes

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C, D

CHILI CHILI BANG BANG
We used to do a chant where we all made a circle and somebody stood in the middle. The words in parenthesis are what the person in the middle would say:

Chili chili bang bang
Let me see you do yo' thang,
(I cant!), Why not?,
(I just can't), Why not?,
(My back hurt, my bra too tight,
my hips shake to the left, to the right,
to the left and to the right! Hey!)

And the girl in the middle had to move her hips as she sang. It was sooooo funny then because we all thought we were FINE anyway! ROTFL!!
-MsAnn (African American female;Louisiana) ,http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=4123&page=3 , Childhood chants and games......; December 30, 2000
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This is another version of "Bang Bang Choo Choo Train'

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DIDDLE DIDDLE DROP
Diddle diddle drop
Diddle diddle drop
My name is Shakyra yall
I go to school yall
and i came to rock this house yall
im a cheerleader
not a player hater
so get up and get drop by this fourth grader [any grade that yo is in]
-Diddle Diddle; 5/23/2007, cocojams.com

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DIG IT 
Group (except soloist): Aaliyah, can you dig it?
Soloist (Aliyah): Yeah. i can D.I.G. I.T.
Dig it!
-Aliyah, age 6, (African American girl, Fort Pitt ALA school, Garfield area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); 3/2007; I collected the same words from two African American girls in Faison Primary School, Homewood area of Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania; October 30, 2009

This pattern repeats until all girls have had a turn as the soloist ;
soloist does jumping jack or a split or some other gymnastic move when you say dig it

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E,F

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G, H

GIGALO (Example #1)
All: Gig ah lo-o
Gig gig a lo-o
Gig ah lo-o
Gig gig a lo-o
Group: Hey, Kayla
Kayla: What?
Group: Are you ready to gig?
Kayla: Gig what?
Group: Gigalo
Kayla : My hands up high
My feet down low
And this is the way
I gig a lo
Group: Her hands up high
Her feet down low
And this is the way she gigalos


(Repeat from the beginning with the next soloist, and continue until everyone in the group has a turn as soloist)
-Tazi M. Powell. (African American female, memories of East Liberty neighborhood, Pittsburgh,
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"Gigalo" is also spelled "Jigalow" and similar spelling.

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GIGGALO (Example #2)
I was just browsing this site, and one of the choices that caught my eye was the "foot stomping cheers". Me still being in my last teenage year, I clearly remember doing them. As I was reading, the ones posted are some I've never heard of, but I wanted to share those that I did know. I did some of these in about 1995 or 96.

[Words to Giggalo]

Giggalo Gigg-alo gigg, gigg-alo gigg-alo gigg, gigg-alo Hey {girl's name} {girl responds}Yeah Are you ready? {girl responds}To what? To gigg {girl responds}Gigg what? Giggalo {girl responds} Well... My hands up high My feet down low And this the way I giggalo {girl will do dance} I turn around And touch the ground And get back up and break it down.
-Becky H.; 5/1/2006, cocojams.com

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JIGALLO (Example #4)
This is how it goes in Midway, Georgia.) Jiggalo, Jig, Jigggg----alooooo. Jiggalo, Jig, Jigggg----alooooo. Group: Hey _____! Person: Yeah? Group: Are you ready? Person: For what? Group: To Jig! Person: Jig what? Group: Jigalooo! Jigalooo! Person: Well, my back aches My bra (belt, pants, Dickies) to tight. My booty shake from left to right. With the sky up high And my J's down low This the way I Jiggalo (does a cute, short dance) Group: Well, her back aches Her bra (belt, pants, Dickies) to tight. Her booty shake from left to right. Wit the sky up high And her J's down low And this the way she Jiggalo (copies their cute, short dance) (Repeats with new person)
-Brianna (Midway,Georgia); 9/26/2008, cocojams.com

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GIGALOO (Version #6)
Gigaloo
gig gig aloo
gigaloo
gig gig aloo
hey ____nanaquette_______ hey what ( team )
hey what (Person)
are u ready (team)
for what (person)
to gig (team)
gig what ( person)
gigaloo (team)
well well my back is ackin my bra to tight my booty shakin from left to right my hands up high my feet down low and dis da way i gigaloo ( person says this and does a dance)
well well her back is ackin her br to tight her booty shakin from left to right her hands up high her feet down low and dis da way she gigaloo ( team does what she did )
-Guest, Nanaquette; Gigalo & other children's rhymes &cheers; http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=100807, December 19, 2008

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[PERSON'S NAME] GOT THE RHYTHM
When I was growing up in Chicago in a primarily African-American neighborhood in the mid 70s (This was probably 1976-1978) we used to do a song where a small group of us would stand in a circle and take turns doing little dance solos with different body parts, for example if Jane, Susan and Mary were in the circle we would all sing:

"Jane's got the rhythm, rhythm in her arms" and while Jane would move her arms around we'd all sing "Umm, check it out, umm-umm check it out", then "Susan's got the rhythm, rhythm in her hips" and Susan would swivel her hips around while we all sang "Umm, check it out, umm-umm check it out" and on and on with each kid doing a different body part (head, legs, butt, waist, etc.) we all agreed in advance who would do each body part before we all started singing.

It's 35 years later and I still get that song stuck in my head sometimes and nobody here in California seems to have ever heard it...
-GUEST Jennifer Martin, https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=81350&messages=221&threadid=81350&messages=221 "I'm Rubber You're Glue", 3 Feb 12

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GO TO THE PARTY
Memories FORREAL! I loved go to the party. Who you gon see we see Tasha. Yeah get down Tasha. Yeah get down turn around Tasha break it down Tasha. Shake your booty tasha and touch the funky ground. When they told me to shake. Oh I shook. My mommy said to stop rocking up.
-toxic silence; Jun 26, 2017, https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/black-girl-rhymes-what-was-yours-growing-up.1196979/page-3

WARNING: Some of the examples on lipstickalley.com contain profanity, sexually explicit content, and/or the "n word".

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I, J

I TT I TI TI
I live in fayettville,nc i am 9 my cuzin taught me this

I TT I TI TI Break it down I TT I TI TI Break it down My name
is Euraja and I'm the ist Cheerleader And when I break
it down I break it I break it to the ground And when I get
up I don't get stuck And there aint nothing to it yall Can't
do it.
-aja; 10/4/2008, cocojams.com

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I WORK 
Words------------------------------------------Basic Motion
wo-rk all year -------------------------scissor legs and land on beat
wo-rk all year------------------------- slow hip sway, left to right on “work”
wo-rk all year
workwork! work!----------------scissor legs quickly three times

Now watch Coco work her hips

She wo-ks all year
She wo-ks all year
She wo-ks all year
She workwork! work!

Now watch all of us work
We wo-ks all year
We wo-ks all year
We wo-ks all year
We workwork! work!
- From Recess Battles: Playing Fighting, and Storytelling by Anna R. Beresin (University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2010, page 112, in the section of that book whose sub-title is "Steps"), African American girls, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (1992)

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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 #2: My name is Michaela.
Group: Yeah.
Soloist #2: 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 THE CAR (Example #1)
I was reading some of these examples and I remember doing alot of them being that im only 17...sooo heres one that i remember playing around 95'-96'...

Jump in the car Jump in the Car (CLAP 3X)
Step on the gas (CLAP 3X)
Move to the side, and let (name) pass
Eh-Hey, Ooh Ahh Lookin at Lady,
Ooh-Ahh Aint she fine,
Ooh Ahh Betta not touch her,
Ooh-Ahh Cuz She'll blow your mind!
Turn around (CLAP 3X)
Touch the ground (CLAP 3X)
i said a get a get a get a get on down Say what!?
A get a get a get a get on down

Here's the setup of the game: the kids who are playing have to stand in two lines like soul train... when they say "jump in the car" everyone jumps once then claps..."step on the gas" everyone stretches out their right foot and stomps it down...."move to the side"...everyone moves back...and let (NAME) pass" the first person in the line goes down the middle and does a dance while the other kids say "ooh ah lookin at lady, ooh ahh aint she fine, ooh ahh betta not touch her, ooh ahh cuz she'll blow your mind. ...when they say "turn around" the girl in the line turns..."touch the ground" the same girl touches the ground...then " i said a get a get a get a get on down" the girl has to get down as low as she can...when the person in the middle is done, the next person goes.
-MeLLi ; 5/12/2007; cocojams.com
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GET IN THE CAR (Example #2 of "Jump In The Car")
group: get in the car
press the gas
move out the way and let Kelli pass

(Kelli gets in the middle/out front & does her dance)

group: she said whoop wop (doing dance)
Kelli: look @ that booty
group: whoomp wop
Kelli: ain't it purty
group: whoop wop
kelli: u want some? u ain't gettin none!
-12dn94dst, http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=31403&page=5, 03-31-2003

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K, L

LET'S GET FIRED UP
All: Let’s get fired up!
(Clap, clap, clapclapclap) [Each girl claps her hands to this beat. This is not spoken.].

Shanice: Shanice gets fired up! [One squad member at a time says her name or her nickname].

All: Clap, clap, (clapclapclap)

Shayla: Shayla gets fired up!

All: (Clap, clap, clapclapclap)

Tara: Tara gets fired up!

All: (Clap, clap, clapclapclap)

Shan: Shan gets fired up!

All: (Clap, clap, clapclapclap)

Tamara: Tamara gets fired up!

All: (Clap, clap, clapclapclap)

LeAnn: LeAnn gets fired up!

All: (Clap, clap, clapclapclap)

Ebony: Ebony gets fired up!

All:(Clap, clap, clapclapclap)

Alitta: Alitta gets fired up!

All: (Clap, clap, clapclapclap)
All: WE ALL GET FIRED UP!
CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP!
- Gators” Little League Football Cheerleaders (African American girls 8-12; Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); October 2000 

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M, N

MOVE GIRL
You betta move
girl you betta move.
[say both lines(3x)]
Now drop it low
Drop it low.
Drop it low
Drop it low
-Shaw High School, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0jNwYcqET0, Jan 9, 2011 "Shaw High School Cheerleaders Before the game hype"
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This is my transcription of this video with corrections. tknight51, lauren patton, and PrincessAmandaTVfor in that video's comment thread wrote that the girls were saying "drop it low".
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Notice that the soloist's name isn't called. And, unlike many other foot stomping cheers, the soloist doesn't speak, but does her own dance while the others chant. "Now drop it low" means to dance down [close] to the ground, and then comes back up.

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O, P

PLAYGROUND 
All: I've fallin. I can't get up.
I've fallin. I can't get up.
Smack, Jack! Homie don't play that.
Kick off your shoes (or "Put up your dukes")
And let's get loose!

All except the soloist whose is indicated by the first letter of her name or nickname:

Kick it "T", Kick it T! Kick it T!

Bust it "T", Bust it "T", Bust it!
Swing it "T", Swing it "T", Swing it!
Soloist: I swing my beat at the playground!

(Repeat the entire rhyme with next soloist, and continue repeating in this manner until every one in the group has had one turn as the soloist). The beat used for this cheer is stompstomp clap stompstomp clap.
-African American girls ages 7-12 years old; Lillian Taylor Camp (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991 or 1992; collected by Tazi M Powell)

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POPCORN ON THE TRAIN (Example #1)
Popcorn on a train
Watch [girl's name] do her thing
She goes a boom tic tic boom tic boom tic tic boom tic
Popcorn on a train

[The girl whose name is called does a gymnastic motion]
The cheer then repeats from the beginning with the next girl whose name is chanted. That girl also does a gymnastic motion, a different one or one that has been done before.]

[When all the girls have had one turn as the soloist, they all say in unison]

Popcorn on a train.
Popcorn on a train.
Watch The Pinks [group name] do their thing.
We said ah
Boom tic tic Boom tic.
Boom tic tic Boom tic.
Popcorn on a train.

This continues until every girl has had a chance to "do her thing" (meaning "do some acrobatic movement or dance step." The rest of the group stands and watches the "soloist" perform.]
-Ashaletta Johnson, May 14, 2011https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmPUhm9phPM "Popcorn On The Train

Here's a comment from Kassie Edwards, 2014
"Y'all must be from st Pete!!!! I can't find anyone outside of st Pete who knows this chant cept we do ours a lil freaky as a child we were fast!!! Lol"
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"St. Pete" probably refers to St. Petersburg, Florida. However, the video's publisher Ashaletta Johnson (2012) wrote that this video was taken in Durham, North Carolina.

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POPCORN ON THE TRAIN (Example #2)
popcoooorn on a train and lee-et *name* do her/his thang she said a oomp dad*day* oomp da*day* oomp da*day* oomp da*day*....repeat til every1 goes
-GUEST,17yr old kid at heart:), https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=4300, Children's Street Songs, 20 July 10

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PUMP IT UP (Example #1)
Wait here's another one:

Pump it up, pump pump it up
Pump it up, pump pump it up

My name is (your name)
(it up, pump pump it up)
They call me (nickname)
(it up, pump pump it up)
And when they see me,
(it up, pump pump it up)
They go (say this part while doing a dance):
Pow-Pow, bang bang,
(your nickname)does her own thang.
-DiVa X-ta-C,,(African American woman, no location given), http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=5627, “remember when”; 08-04-2000

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PUMP IT UP (Version #3) [added August 20, 2017]
Words -------------------------------------------------Basic Motion
Pump pump pump pump pump it up------------- tap palms around the circle to start
Pump pump pump it up ---------------------------- step clap rock clap [2x]
Well, my name is [player’s name] -------------------------step clap rock clap
Pump it up --------------------------------------------step clap rock clap
That’s what they call me ---------------------------------step clap rock clap
Pump it up -------------------------------------------[repeat]
My sign is [astrological sign]
Pump it up
And I can work that body oddy oddy --------------shake and improvise
Make sure you don’t hurt that body
Pump pump pump pump
Pump it up
(1992)
From Recess Battles: Playing Fighting, and Storytelling by Anna R. Beresin (University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2010, page 104-105, in the section of that book whose sub-title is "Steps"), African American girls, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Here's the introductory comments to this example:
"In 1991, I saw four African American girls doing what looked like a dance step. “Is that a step?” I asked. I wonder whether the dance was choreographed or if they were improvising. “No, no, this is a step”. Step, clap, rock, clap, step, clap, rock, clap, They rocked gently back and forth, clapping their hands lightly on the off beat. At first they sang quietly, but it built into a roar."

[After that example. the book's author wrote]

"The phase pump it up appears in several recordings, including "Pump Up The Jam" by M. Kamosi and T. De Quincy from 1989. Each girl gets a chance to say her name and her astrological sign and work her body."
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Pancocojams Editor's Note (written Nov. 28, 2020: 
The underlined words were written that way in this book. I believe that "underlining" signifies that the steps that are performed when those words are chanted are done with more force (bass sound). 

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Q, R,

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S,T

SHAKE WHAT I GOT IN MY SKIRT (Example #1)
My name is Makayla and I'm hear today to shake what I got in my skirt.
I could turn around and I could hit the ground and shake what I got in my skirt.

Everybody takes a turn saying their name and saying the same thing.
-Makayla, African American Female; 12 years; Fort Pitt Accelerated Learning Academy; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania}; collected by Azizi Powell, 5/9/2008; from informal survey with girls being asked to write down some rhymes and cheers that they knew
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Makayla wrote the word "hear" instead of "here".

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SHAKE WHAT I GOT IN MY SKIRT (Example #2)
My name is Raya and I'm here to say
I can shake what I got in my skirt.
I can turn around
And touch the ground
And I can shake what I got in my skirt.
-Raya & Sha'ona,(African American girls, age 11) Fort Pitt Accelerated Learning Academy; Pittsburgh, PA; 6/12/2008; collected by Azizi Powell, 6/12/2008

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SHOO, SHOO, SHARIDA (Added August 20, 2017)
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"), African American girls, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992

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SHOW ME HOW YOU GET DOWN (Example #1)

All: I saida D-O-W-N. That’s the way we get down.

D-O-W-N. That’s the way we get down.

Group: Hey, Danielle.

Danielle: What?

Group: Show us how you get down.

Danielle: No way.

Group: Show us how you get down.

Soloist: Okay. I said D-O-W-N.

And that’s the way. That’s the way. That’s the way

I get down.

Group: She saidah D-O-W-N.And that’s the way.

That’s the way. That’s the way she gets down.

Repeat the entire cheer with next soloist who says her name. This continues from the beginning until everyone has had a turn as soloist.

-Tazi M. Powell(African American female; memories of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, East Liberty/Garfield neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania mid to late 1980s,also collected in same neighborhoods in early to mid 1990s); Collected by Azizi Powell, 1998
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In the context of these cheers, "get down" means to do your best dance moves. 

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SHOW ME HOW TO GET DOWN (Example #2)
Hey (a name) say what, show me how to get down, no way, show me how to get down, ok, we stump our feet, we move to the beat we turn around, touch the ground and that's the way we do it. ok
-Khamya; (African American female, age 8; (Garfield neighborhood, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); 3/21/2006

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SHOW ME HOW TO GET DOWN (Examplen #3)
QuartQuart: hey (insert a name) Hey what?(2*) show me

how to get down.No way show me how to get down

okay. Hands up high feet down low this is how I rodeo.

(repeat but at the end say ) hands up high feet down low

this is how I drop it low. drop it low drop drop it low.
-QuartQuart; 4/23/2006; cocojams.com

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SHOW ME HOW YOU GET DOWN (Version #4)
Group (except soloist): Hey Ree Ree

Soloist (Ree Ree): What.

Group: Show us how you get down

Ree Ree: Too Shy.

Group: Show us how you get down.

Ree Ree: With ah D

The O

The W

The N

And that’s the way

you get down.

The group repeats the entire cheer with the next soloist saying her name or nickname. Continue until everyone has a one turn as the soloist.
-Riantai (Ree Ree); African American female; 8 years old; Faison Primary School (Homewood area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); October 30, 2009

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U, V

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W, X

WHO ROCKS THE HOUSE
who rocks the house i said (other teams name) rocks the house and when (other teams names) rocks the house they rock it hold u p wait a minute this aint right cause we aint in it who the rockd the house i said (your teams name) rocks the house and when (your team name) rocks the house we rock it all the way down.

-a best cheer; 12/1/2007, cocojams.com

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Y, Z

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