Vibing With P, Jan 11, 2021 #SOFAMOUSENT
90’s HAND GAMES WITH TAKEEYA LA’TI ( HILARIOUS 🤣
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The hand clap rhyme that these two Black women call "Kiss Kiss Kiss" is the first rhyme in this video [beginning around .53 to around 1:14].
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total number of views for this YouTube video as of October 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM- 72,139
total number of comments for this video's discussion thread as of October 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM- 254
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Here's the words to the version of this rhyme that is chanted in this video:
"Ready? Yeah one two three
Kiss kiss kiss
I don’t wanna go to Mexico no more, more, more
There’s a big fat policeman at the door, door, door
He grabbed me by my collar
Made me pay a dollar
I don’t want to go to Mexico no more
Kiss!"
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Edited by Azizi Powell
Latest revision- October 6, 2025
This pancocojams post presents a few comments from a discussion thread of a YouTube video about English language hand games (hand clap rhymes).
These comments document that most of these commenters used/use "Shame Shame Shame" as the title for the recreational rhyme "I Don't Want To Go To Mexico".*
However, as these comments also document other titles were/are used for that rhyme in different United States cities.
All of these comments correspond to additional examples of "I Don't Want To Go To Mexico" that I have directly collected offline and which I have collected online.
The content of this post is presented for historical, folkloric, socio-cultural, and recreational purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
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* Read my comment in the discussion thread for this video about other Black American girl's recreational rhymes that also begin with the introductory phrase "Shame Shame Shame" or similar words".
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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
My use of the term "Black Girls' hand clap rhymes" (or more specifically "Black American girls' hand clap rhymes) doesn't mean that only Black American girls performed these rhymes.
I use those terms to indicate that these recreational rhymes are most associated with Black American girls (or should most often be associated with Black American girls because they are most often performed by that population..
I also use that term because Black American girls were the composers of these these versions of those recreational rhymes even if- in the case of "I Don't Want To Go To Mexico" which was originally titled "I Don't Want To Go To Macy's"-Black American girls may not have been the original composers of that recreational rhyme.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-real-origin-of-i-dont-to-go-to.html for the 2017 pancocojams post entiteld "The REAL Origin Of "I Don't Want To Go To Mexico" Rhymes (also known as "Shame" & "Shame Shame Shame")."
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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THE DISCUSSION THREAD OF THIS YOUTUBE VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwhAP3nwJWQ&lc=UgyLUhJuNyFKheIkrk14AaABAg.9IOH9_9c1Sf9IOJfA3Eisn
"90’s HAND GAMES WITH TAKEEYA LA’TI ( HILARIOUS 🤣 )"
Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.
2021
1.@bumblebee1946
"The first one we used to call shame, shame, shame 😃"
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2. @nlyneja7614
"I thought it was shame, shame, shame I don’t wanna go Mexico
no more more 😭😭"
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3. @LinahH.
"it is 😭"
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4. @ainayiahteagle4959
"I’ve never heard the kiss, kiss, kiss version😂😂😂
I heard shame, shame, Shame I don’t wanna go to Mexico no more more more 😂😂
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5. @vibingwithp4116
"Lmaoo see we say kiss kiss kiss ... I saw some people was
saying shame shame shame I ain’t ever heard that one"
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Read comment #26 below in which @vibingwithp4116 indicated that she and the other woman in this video are from Michigan. However, notice that comment #9 is from a person who's from Detroit, Michigan. That commenter wrote that this rhyme was called "Shame" in Detroit.
These comments document what I have found before- that more than one title could be used for the same recreational rhyme in different cities in the same state (at the same time and within the same racial/ethnic/and gender population.)
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6. @balisflem9400,
2020
"Yea P it was shame shame shame.. in the burg"
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“The burg” probably refers to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a long time resident of Pittsburgh, I can verify from direct experiences that Black American girls in a number of majority Black neighborhoods of Pittsburgh and some of its surrounding communities chanted "Shame Shame Shame" as an introductory phrase before the other words to "I Don't Want To Go To Mexico" rhymes in the 1990s and the early 2000s.
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7. @royal-messenger
"Number 1: We called it Shame Shame Shame (Ive never heard of
it being called Kiss, Kiss, Kiss)."
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8. @alexuswhite8097
"Same here in Kentucky. Lol theirs is cute though. 🤗🤗🤗"
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9. @djapz2
"Shame here in Detroit too. It's funny how hand games change
with different ppl"
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10. @WatABlessing33
"I said the same thing lol I’m from Jersey"
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11. @kamijahtyler6811
" @alexuswhite8097 right I’m from ky and that’s wat we call it"
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This commenter had written "my" and corrected her comment to "ky" [Kentucky"] in the very next comment.
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12. @erica.moniquee
"me too(mobile)"
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"Mobile" = Mobile, Alabama
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13. @MrBattle123
"NC too"
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NC = North Carolina
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14. @ericaturner5355
"It’s definitely shame shame shame"
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15. @SpicePrincess1890
"Same, in Ohio lol
It's really interesting because there is no telling where or
how these rhymes started, and there's always a billion versions of them 🤣🤣
Cause I've heard another version of that same rhyme that
says "he will grab you by the collar, make you scream and holler"
instead of "hang you by your collar, make you pay a dollar"."
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16. @adrianajimenez6422
"Yup shame also in chicago 😂"
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17. @kittyKatfish
"Shame and Gorilla in Georgia"
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I'm not sure what this commenter meant. Is she saying that this rhyme is called "Shame and Gorilla" in Georgia or either the title "Shame" or the title "Gorilla" in that state?
This is the first time that I've come across the word "Gorilla" used in reference to "I Don't Want To Go To Mexico" rhymes. Does anyone have any experience with "Gorilla" being used [in Georgia] or anywhere else as the title for this rhyme?
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18. @amanituelle
"I'm from California and we say kiss kiss kiss 🤣
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19. @rizmak920
"I think it's different but similar depending on where you
from like slide is numbers for me and I'm from NYC."
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"Slide" is another Black American girl's recreational rhyme. That rhyme was/is called "Numbers" or "Slide Slide Slippery Slide" and/or other names dependent on which city you're in.
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20. @LadiieRedd
"Maybe the SOUF said Shame shame shame. Cause I never heard
kiss either"
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"the SOUF"= the South. This spelling is probably mimicking how some people from the South pronounce that word.
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21. @dabalm60
"Im from Philly we said Shame and the ending is different we
said it’s a big fat police man at the door door door door, if he grab you by
the collar girlllll you betta holla 😂"
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"Philly" = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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22. @TheJenuineWay
"@dabalm60 hey, I’m from Philly too. This is the comment
I was looking for 🙌🏾"
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23. @anjelicathomas-dapuzzo9590
"Yeah we did shame shame shame in Chicago"
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24. @ShantelJones-h3p
"Same in Vegas ! SHAME SHAME SHAME"
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25. @kaylarose6493
"Where are you guys from cus these are the exact rhymes I
remember"
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26. @vibingwithp4116
"Michigannnn!!!!"
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27.@kaylarose6493
"@vibingwithp4116 me too 😂"
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28. @sistertujuana4834
"It’s amazing how these games travel all around the country
but we have different words or different movements. In Chicago we had some
different words for parts of these songs and some different movements but this
brought back so many memories with cousins and friends. Now I’m trying to teach
my daughter"
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29. @elishevaisrael7314
"Right!! Girls obviously getting faster and faster...if u
know what I'm saying. When I played those games, nobody's mind was on no dang
kissing"
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30. @chenanahbest5390
" @vibingwithp4116 yeah
we called it shake shake in the dmv area"
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"DMV"= Washington D.C, Maryland, and Virginia area.
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31. @valerian_steel
"We used to call it shame also in chicago"
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32. @malayariley1117
"@dabalm60 I’m from
Ohio and u said it this way! 😂"
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33. @Steph-yl7by
"@dabalm60
I’m from MD and that’s how I remember it too lol"
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"MD"= Maryland.
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My guess is that the introductory line "Shame Shame Shame" is short hand for the statement "You should be ashamed" [for what you did.]
ReplyDeleteA lot of Black American girls hand clap rhymes begin with introductory phrases. "Shame Shame Shame" appears to be one of the most often used introductory phrases in Black American girls hand clap rhymes.
DeleteIn 2013 I published a four part series about the word “Shame” in the titles and words of several Black American girls’ hand clap rhymes.
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-word-shame-in-childrens-rhymes-part.html for Part I (Shame Shame Double Shame" rhymes).
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/10/sources-examples-of-i-dont-want-to-go.html" for Part II of that series. Part II features early text (word only) versions of the rhyme that became "I Don't Want To Go To Mexico". Part II also features text examples of and comments about "I Don't Want To Go To Mexico" (and similarly titled rhymes) that begin with the phrase "shame shame shame" and/or ends with the word "shame".
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/10/video-examples-of-hand-clap-rhyme-i.html for Part III. That post features videos of "I Don't Want To Go To Mexico" that include the "shame shame shame" introductory line and/or the "shame" ending.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/10/shame-shame-shame-hit-it-line-in.html for Part IV of that pancocojams series. That post features videos and examples of the phrase ""Shame Shame Shame Hit It" in "Brick Wall Waterfall" hand clap rhymes.
Here's one example of a Black American girls' hand clap rhyme from the discussion thread of this post's showcase video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwhAP3nwJWQ&lc=UgyLUhJuNyFKheIkrk14AaABAg.9IOH9_9c1Sf9IOJfA3Eisn
Delete@evanporter1028, 2024
"The one me and my friends do is
shame shame shame
hit it
that’s the way ahahah
that’s the way ahahah
lipgloss waterfall
girl you think you know it all
you don’t I do
you don’t I do
so lose your attitude
why why pumpkin pie
hip hip potato chip
what what pizza hut
welcome to mcdonald’s may I take your order
see my pinky see my thumb
see my fist you better run
hold up wait come back
you need a tic tac
not one not two but the whole six pack
not trying to be mean
but you need some listeren
not a sip not a swallow
but the whole dang bottle
and of course there are moves"
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"lipgloss waterfall" is a folk processed form of the words "Brick wall waterfall". Children often convert words that are unfamiliar to them in the context of a rhyme-such as brick wall"- to a more familiar word such as "lipgloss". That's one form of "folk processing."
Here's an example of another hand clap rhyme that was posed in the discussion thread of this pancocojams post's showcase video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwhAP3nwJWQ&lc=UgyLUhJuNyFKheIkrk14AaABAg.9IOH9_9c1Sf9IOJfA3E. That example begins with words that are pronounced like the words "Shame Shame Shame" and was written in response to another commenter sharing an example of the hand clap rhyme "Tweeleelee" ("Rockin Robin") that she remembers:
Delete@TheCRYSTALLURE. 2024
"Ours went like “Chain chain chain (or shing shing shing - just depends) & a rhythm a beat, I’m gonna rock to the tree top all day long. Huffin & a puffin and singing that song. All the little birds on jabber street. All the little birds go tweet tweet tweet rock a robbin tweet tweedle -eet rock a robbin tweet tweedle -eet” and then I think ours continued into “mommas in the kitchen cookin fried chicken. Dads in bed halfway dead. Sisters at school acting like a fool. Brothers in jail moving like a snail..rock a Robbin tweet tweedle -eet rock a Robbin tweet tweedle -eet."