"You Make Us Go To Sleep" Stomp & Shake Basketball Cheers (videos, words, and descriptions)

@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.

The earliest video that I've come across for "Y'all Tired" that was published on Tik Tok on November 10, 2023 by Sparkman Basketball Cheer. Unfortunately, I can't publish TikTok videos in this pancocojams post. 

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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.

Here are selected comments from that Tik Tok discussion thread.

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

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13. heartzzz444maddie_

"Can somebody tell me what they saying I wanna do this for my cheer team"
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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DESCRIPTION OF THE DECEMBER 2024 SPARKMAN HIGH SCHOOL VIDEO THAT IS TITLED "YOU MAKE US GO TO SLEEP"
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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Two commenters in this YouTube video's discussion thread identified Sparkman High School as 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- 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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@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. 

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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.  

Here are the words to that cheer as it is performed in this YouTube video short*:
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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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc's Bragging & Dissing Chant "King Tut"

Uploaded by GPPALPHAPOE on Mar 20, 2009

Alpha Phi Alpha stepping on the yard at Fisk University in 1993
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I've made no attempts to transcribe this video beyond the first few lines:

"King Tut was the very first Greek
When he clapped his hands
He had the ladies at his feet
Aah Tut Tut Tut
Aah Tut Tut Tut." ...
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For the cultural record, please help document this old school Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc chant by sharing in a comment below the words that you know for this chant along with information about when and where you learned or heard it. Thanks!

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents examples of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Chant "King Tut".

The content of this post is presented for cultural, folkloric, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to all those who are featured in these videos and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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This 2024 post is a reprint of a now deleted pancocojams post on this subject. That post had a different title and a few minor differences in its wording.

The only comment that was added to the discussion thread for that 2012 post was posted by an Anonymous visitor who shared this link to a YouTube video for the University of Michigan yard show which included this chant: "#UofM Yardshow Fall '12 Kappa Eta Alphas". Unfortunately, that video is no longer available on YouTube.
   

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STATEMENT ABOUT THIS HISTORICALLY BLACK GREEK LETTER CHANT
Historically Black Greek letter fraternity & sorority chants and songs are part of African American culture. I consider examples of historically Black Greek letter chants & songs and their stepping and strolling performance to be cultural artifacts.

In addition to the cultural and entertainment purposes of these compositions, I believe that fraternity/sorority chants and songs that should be collected, preserved, and studied along with information and comments about those performances their textual structure, wording, and when and how they are used.

However, in accordance with the cultural traditions, I also believe historically Black Greek letter fraternity & sorority chants and songs should only be recited and/or performed by those who are members or prospective members of the specific organization that is affiliated with that particular chant or song.

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTES ABOUT THE "KING TUT" CHANT
"King Tut" is an example of an Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc,'s bragging/rival dissin (insulting)  chant. As of the publishing date for this pancocojams post (April 18, 20224), I've only come across to three YouTube video examples of this "King Tut" chant. Two of those examples are embedded in this post, and the third example is a short video whose link I didn't save and whose audio and video quality is very poor. 

As of April 18, 2024, there are only three comments in the discussion thread for the video that is given as video #1. I wrote one of those comments to inform people about the 2012 post. (I edited that comment with the link to this post.) Here are those two comments: 

1. @MissShila, 2009
"wow.  93.  I like throwbacks."

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2. @rozvaker, 2011
"omg I love this Fiskites! Skee-Phi"
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As of April 18, 2024, there's only one comment in the discussion thread for the video that is given above. Here's that comment:

@justcallmekay6666,2021

"Spr 21 bro. Thank you so much for posting this. I've been looking for old school chants, probates, and strolls that got lost in my chapter. 06' to the good bros".
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These comments suggest that the "King Tut" chant may not be commonly known among contemporary members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., please confirm or correct whether this is true.

I haven't come across any example of this chant that was or is associated with any other Greek letter fraternity or sorority.

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INFORMATION ABOUT "KING TUT"
In these Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. chants, "King Tut" refers to Tutankhamun, an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled ca. 1332 BC – 1323 BC in the conventional chronology).

Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun for more information about King Tut.

It's no accident that Egyptian pharoah "King Tut" is the central character in this chant. Ancient Egypt is regarded as the beginning of civilization and Alpha Phi Alpha is the first university based historically Black Greek lettered fraternity*, and its members are referred to as "Sphinxmen". That explains the line "King Tut was the very first Greek".

The word "Greek" in that sentence means "a fraternal organization that uses letters from the Greek alphabet for its name". No reference to the Greek nation (Greece) or the cultural of people from that nation/nationality is intended or alluded to.

Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Phi_Alpha for more information of the Alpha's use of Egyptian references and symbols. One quote from that page indicates that "In 1914, The Sphinx, named after the Egyptian landmark, began publication as the fraternity's journal. [The NAACP's publication'] The Crisis and The Sphinx are respectively the first and second oldest continuously published black journals in the United States."

*That quote from the above linked Wikipedia page also indicates that "Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ) is the first Black, Inter-Collegiate Greek-Lettered fraternity. It was founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York".

[The italics were added by me for emphasis].
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*That said, "Sigma Phi Phi [the Boule] is the first African-American Greek-lettered organization. Sigma Pi Phi was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 15, 1904.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_Pi_Phi

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THE HISTORICALLY BLACK GREEK LETTER FRATERNITIES THAT ARE MENTIONED IN THIS "KING TUT" CHANT. 
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc's chant "King Tut" refers to the four of the five historically Black Greek lettered fraternities that are members of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (informally known as "The Divine Nine" - "Alphas" (Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.),  "Ques" (Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc), "Kappas" (Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.), and "Sigmas" (Sigma Phi Beta Fraternity, Inc).

That chant doesn't mention the other Black Greek lettered fraternity that is a member of the "Divine Nine" Pan Hellenic Council, the "Iotas" (Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc). Iota Phi Theta Fraternity was founded in 1963 is the newest member of the Pan Hellenic Council.

Click http://www.blackgreek.com/divinenine/ for information about and a listing of the "Divine Nine" fraternities and sororities.

A lack of reference to the Iotas in versions of "King Tut" suggests that that chant was composed before 1963 and was never updated to include any mention of the Iotas. It might also point to the disinclination of Alpha chanters to change that chant. Another possibility for the lack of reference to the Iotas in this chant (and in many other dissin fraternity chants that I've read) is that the public persona [stereotype/s] for the Iotas hasn't been formed or hasn't been widely circulated yet. However, that seems unlikely given that its been a number of decades since the Iota Phi Theta, Fraternity Inc. was founded.

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FEATURED TEXT (WORD ONLY) EXAMPLES
(These examples are posted in chronological order based on the date of their initial posting or publication on the website or in the book from which I retrieved them.)

Example #1: KING TUT
All: My-y-y old King Tut
was the very first Greek,
a-a-h when he clapped his hands
he had the ladies at his feet.
A-a-h, Tut, Tut, Tut,
a-a-h, Tut, Tut, Tut.

One brother: I said

All: When he saw the Sigmas,
it made him mad.
When he saw the Kappas,
it made him mad.
A-a-h, when he saw the Ques,
it made him sick.
When he saw the frat,
then he had to pledge quick.
A-a-h, Tut, Tut, Tut,

He had a black and gold whip
nd a black and gold cane,
then he came up
a-a-h with this black and gold name.
A-ha-h A Phi A,
A Phi A,
A Phi A,
-Alpha Phi Alpha, East Tennessee State University, in Soulstepping: African American Step Shows by Elizabeth C. Fine; originally from Thompson, "Aesthetic of Cool", 95-96, transcription by Jane Woodside pf videotape of Dance Heritage Festival, 6 April 1991, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City
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UPDATE: May 31, 2014
The line "Old King Tut was the very first Greek" means that King Tut was the first person who was member of a historically Black Greek lettered fraternity.

I don't believe that this statement is meant to be taken historically. I think it alludes to the documented that the early Greeks are culturally indebted to the Egyptians.

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Example #2: KING TUT
King Tut went to Egypt the other day
To Check out the greeks that were coming his way
He saw the Ques, and he said thay acted like a fool
He saw the Kappas, and he said that they were not cute
He saw the Sigmas, and he said that they made him sick
Then he saw the A-PHI!, and he made his pick
-ENewton; http://www.stophazing.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=7;t=000243 ; 09-30-2005

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Example #3: KING TUT
Ol' King Tut he was the very first frat,
And when he clapped his hands he rocked the house
like that....ahhhh tut...tut...tut...King Tut
ahhh tut...tut...tuh...King Tut,

He looked at the Kappas and it made him mad,
He looked at the Sigmas and it made him sad,
He looked at the Ques and it made him sick,

But when he saw that ALPHA he had to pledge it quick
ahhhh tut.....ahhhh tut.....ahhhh tut!!!
-robelite, http://onolympus.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=life&action=print&thread=1471 E-Greek Chant Off, Mar 5, 2008
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Here's an excerpt from the comment that this blogger made that preceded this example [Commenting about chants taunting and putting down other frat and bragging about your own frat] "LOL! I was the chant-master in undergrad. :-)....I'm suprised I can remember some of these! :D

Good thing back then was...we could chant at each other all night and NOT have any conflicts! You'd usually see the same ones chanting back and forth at each other at a party later out in the parking lot drinking together."

WARNING: A number of examples on this website contain profanity, explicit sexual references, homophobic references, and a form of what is known as "the n word".

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - King Tut and Finale - Spring 2011 - Beta Iota Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Mr. Black Legacy,  May 17, 2011

Recorded on March 18, 2011 using a Flip Video camcorder.
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Notice that the style of steppin in the beginning of this video [.022 -023] mimics the movement of gorillas. Gorillas are a relatively recent symbol of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.*, and apparently have no negative connotation for this Black fraternity (unlike the very negative connotations of gorillas and monkeys as references to African Americans and other Black people.)
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*I don't know when the gorilla was adopted as the symbol for members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. But, for what it's worth, my daughter shared with me that she has no recollection of Alphas being associated with gorillas when she attended a Pennsylvania university and attended a number of step shows from 1991-1995. 

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An example of the Alphas' King Tut chant is demonstrated at the end of that video [beginning at 3:11]. Here's my transcription of those words [with the words I'm not quite sure of given in italics]:

Group- Ah what?
One Alpha stepping & chanting - Ah Tut ah Tut ah Tut
I said Oh King Tut
He was the very first Greek
Ah and when he rocked the house
He brought the ladies to their feet.

All - Ah Tut Tut Tut ah King Tut.
Ah Tut Tut Tut ah King Tut.

He drove ah black
Group- [Ah what?]
Ah black
Group-[Ah what?]
He drove ah black and gold chair
With ah black and gold horse
And when he wanted to pledge
He had to charge his course

All - Ah Tut Tut Tut ah King Tut.
Ah Tut Tut Tut ah King Tut.
Ah
Ah
Ah Tut Tut Tut
Ah King Tut.

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