Astrology (Zodiac Signs) Mentioned In African American Girls' Foot Stomping Cheers (Complete Reprint Of Part IV)

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is a complete reprint of Part IV of a four part series that provides a compilation of all of the words only examples of foot stomping cheers that mention zodiac (astrological) signs that I have come across [as of the latest edition of this post: November 13, 2024]. 

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/11/astrology-zodiac-signs-mentioned-in.html  for Part I  (Numbers- I of this series.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/11/astrology-zodiac-signs-mentioned-in_19.html for Part II (J - P). of this series.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2021/11/astrology-zodiac-signs-mentioned-in_11.html for Part III (Q - S)

These examples aren't numbered as additional examples may be added if I come across them.

This series is a sub-set of a larger compilation entitled "Foot Stomping Cheers Alphabetical List". Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/foot-stomping-cheers-alphabetical-list.html for Part I of that series. The links to the other part of that series are included in that post. That post also includes additional notes about the general topic of foot stomping cheers.

Additional information about a specific cheer may be found after that example in its entry in the foot stomping cheer alphabetical list.

Also, click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/05/an-overview-of-foot-stomping-cheers.html for the pancocojams post entitled "An Overview Of Foot Stomping Cheers (Part I- Characteristic & Sources)".

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NOTES ABOUT THESE EXAMPLES  
These examples are presented in alphabetical order based on the first number or the first letter of the first letter of the first word. 

The source (i.e. book, direct collection, or website) is given below the example along with demographic information and/or comments.

The numbers that are given below for the versions of a specific cheer in this series may not be the same as the numbers for that cheer in the Pancocojams Foot Stomping Cheers Alphabetical List compilation.

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EXAMPLES: T - Z

TELL IT (Version #1)
My name is Mocha (Tell it, tell it)
I'm on the line (Tell it, tell it)
I wanna do it (tell it, tell it)
with Nas' sign (Tell it, tell it)
And you know what? (what?)
My man will rough you up.
Hey!!!

The alternate version said, "and you know what? My man don't do enough".
-Miss Mocha, http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=31403&page=5,03-28-2003
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"Nas" is the stage name for an American rapper. His Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nas indicates that he started his recording career in 1991, but his highly regarded album Illmatic wasn't released until 1994. This information suggests that this version of "Tell It" was probably not chanted until 1994. The word "sign" here means "astrological sun sign".

Note: "Nas" isn't the same recording artist as "Lil Nas X" who recorded "Old Town Road".

Btw, my guess is that these "Tell it" girls' rhymes were inspired by the 1966 hit R&B song "Tell It Like It Is" which was recorded by Aaron Neville and then by other vocalists.

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TELL IT (TELL IT LIKE IT IS) (Version #2)
tell it, tell it, tell it like it is

uh oh!

tell it, tell it, tell it like it is

me: my name is Goddess

homegirls: tell it, tell it

me: I'm on the line

homegirls: tell it, tell it

me: and I'm gon' do it

homegirls: tell it, tell it

me: with a Scorpio sign

homegirls: tell it, tell it

me: and you know what?

homegirls: what?

me: and you know what?

homegirls: what?

(alternate replies)

me: my man was rollin on the ocean, he was rollin on the sea, and the best part about it, he was rolling on me (insert fast azz 8 year old sexy move here)

OR

me: I'm just gon' kick yo butt

-GODDESS!, http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php/43158-Hood-Cheers/page2?s=c36b81842e44a5cd4a49678538954ac4

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TELL IT (TELL IT LIKE IT IS (Version #3)
Tell it tell it tell it like it is (uh hun)
tell it tell it tell it like it is
My name Nicole (tell it tell it)
I’m on the line (tell it tell it)
And I can do it (tell it tell it)
To the Capricorn sign (tell it tell it)
And you know what? (what?)
And you know what (what?)
Your man was in my body and he did some karate and he
knocked on my door, but he didn’t get no more.
-Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-hop Feminist Pedagogy by Ruth Nicole Brown, published in 2008; Page 43 (Google books)

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TELL IT TELL IT (Version #4)
My name is ______________ (Tell it Tell it)
Zodiac sign my sign (Tell it Tell it)
And if you don't like it (Tell it Tell it)
You can kiss my behind (Tell it Tell it)
You know what? (What?)
You know what? (What?)
My name ________and I can do it like this! (do a dance)
-Honeykiss1974, http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/archive/index.php/t-31403.html, 03-26-2003
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The "1974" in her screen name is probably her date of birth which means that this cheer may be from the mid 1980s.

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YOU AINT GOIN NO WHERE
Entire Group: You ain’t goin no where
no where
You ain’t goin no where
You ain’t goin no where
no where
You ain’t goin no where
Hey, Shadeya
Soloist #1 (Shadeya): Too shy
Group without the soloist: Introduce yourself
Soloist #1 (Shadeya) : I’ll try
My name is Shadeya
I cheer for Garfield*.
My sign is Libra.
And when I’m up
Group without soloist: When she’s up.
Shadeya: I’m hot stuff.
Group: She’s hot stuff.
Shadeya: And when I’m down.
Group: And when she’s down.
Shadeya: Don’t mess around.
Group: Don’t mess around
Shadeya: Don’t make me scream
cause you will be _knocked _out.
 

Repeat the entire cheer from the beginning with the next soloist who says her name or nickname, the name of the sport or community team she cheers for. The girl doesn't have to really be a cheerleader. She is engaging in dramatic play- that is-she's pretending to be a cheerleader.

Continue this pattern until every one in the group has had one turn as the soloist.
-Shadaya, Fort Pitt School; (Garfield), 2002; collected by Azizi Powell; I also collected the exact same cheer in 2008 from Conraya and another girl from the same school.
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 __  means to pause a beat

*The soloist names her community or school athletic cheerleading team.

"My sign" means the person's astrological sun sign.

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WE ARE THE RIDGEWOOD GIRLS
We are the Ridgewood girls
We are the get-fresh crew
My name's "Sweety" (believe it or not that was the name I had chosen for myself)
My sign's Leo
This is how I show it off: (strike individual pose)
-Yasmin H., visual artist (New York City, New York), 2/25/04 (memories of East Brooklyn, New York, in the late 1980s.)
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This example and several others in this collection are from an email that I received from Yasmin H. Here is an excerpt from her email:

"We would begin each performance session with this piece because every girl had to go through this process and so it became the "introduction" piece. I also want to point out with the above piece that the term "get-fresh crew" was something we had borrowed from the then popular "Get-Fresh crew" which was a hip-hop act consisting of Dough E. Fresh and Slick Rick. The beats in our cheers and even song-tunes usually mimicked popular hip-hop beats of the time."

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This concludes Part IV of this pancocojams series about astrology signs in children's foot stomping cheers.

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How The Washington D.C. Children's Foot Stomping "Chocolate City" Traveled To Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Part IV [2025 Complete Reprint]

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part IV of  a four part pancocojams series about the African American term "chocolate city".

This post presents an example of a foot stomping cheer called "Chocolate City" which my daughter Tazi Hughes collected at a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania summer camp in 1992 from a Washington D. C. girl who was visiting her cousins in Pittsburgh. This post is an excerpt of a 2016 pancocojams post entitled "How I Started Collecting Examples Of African American Foot Stomping Cheers" https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/when-i-started-collecting-examples-of.html  .

This post presents the percentages of Black people in 67 cities in the United States that have a population of over 100,000 people. (according to the United States Census Bureau, 2020 census). These cities can be considered "chocolate cities" based on an expanded definition of that term which began around the mid 20th century as a nickname for Washington, D.C.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-parliaments-chocolate-city-1975.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. That post showcases a YouTube sound file of the Parliament's 1975 Funk record "Chocolate City". Information about the Parliaments and their "Chocolate City" album & single is included in this post. Lyrics for the parliaments' record  "Chocolate City" are also included in this pancocojams post along with some explanations of some of those lyrics. 

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/11/youtube-commenters-write-about-which.html
for Part II of this pancocojams series. This post showcases a sound file of the Parliament's Funk 1975 record "Chocolate City" and presents selected comments from several YouTube discussion threads of that record. Most of those comments refer to United States cities that were considered "chocolate city in the 1970s and/or now.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/11/united-states-top-chocolate-cities.html for Part III of this pancocojams series. That post presents the percentages of Black people in 67 cities in the United States that have a population of over 100,000 people. (according to the United States Census Bureau, 2020 census). These cities can be considered "chocolate cities" based on an expanded definition of that term which began around the mid 20th century as a nickname for Washington, D.C.

The content of this post is presented for folkloric and recreational purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to the unknown person/s who composed this cheer, thanks to all those who contributed this foot stomping cheer, and thanks to Tazi Hughes for collecting this foot stomping cheer.
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This is a complete reprint of this 2022 pancocojams post. No comments have been posted to the discussion thread for that post as of August 12, 2025. 

I was motivated to reprint this post in large part because of Trump's announcement on August 11, 2025 that he was federalizing the Washington D.C. national guard.

Click https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/11/us/trump-news "Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police".

Also, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/08/videos-of-washington-dc-protests-august.html for the pancocojams post "Videos Of Washington DC Protests August 11 & 12, 2025 (After Trump Announces That He'll Seize Control Of D.C.'s Police And Will Deploy That City's National Guard)".

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE

This excerpt focuses on the "Chocolate City" cheer. "Chocolate City" is an example of a foot stomping cheer that a visitor from one city in the United States brought to another city in that country and -at least for a short time-was passed on to other girls after its initial introduction, 

I first became aware of the foot stomping cheer "Chocolate City" when my daughter collected an example of that cheer in 1992 from school age Black girls who attended Lillian Taylor camp in Valencia, Pennsylvania. Lillian Taylor camp sessions were sponsored by Kingsley Association, a non-profit community organization that is still based in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. However, Lillian Taylor camp closed in 2006.

Independent of my daughter Tazi, I later collected the exact same example of "Chocolate City" in 1999 from two Black girls who attended Fort Pitt elementary school in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhood of Garfield. Garfield is located very near the much larger Pittsburgh neighborhood of East Liberty where Kingsley Association is located. 

My daughter was a Fort Pitt teacher during the time that I collected the "Chocolate City" foot stomping cheer and other foot stomping cheers from Fort Pitt students. However, when I asked her, my daughter told me that she hadn't taught "Chocolate City" to anyone at Fort Pitt school or anywhere else. I therefore assume that these Fort Pitt students learned this cheer from a sibling or someone else who attended that 1992 Lillian Taylor Camp summer session seven years before. 

I haven't come across any other example of the "Chocolate City" foot stomping cheer other than the one that is given in this pancocojams post.

If you remember this cheer, please share the version you remember with demographic information (particularly city/state and decade  you remember it) in the comment section of this post. Thanks! 

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EXCERPT OF "HOW I STARTED COLLECTING EXAMPLES OF (MOSTLY) AFRICAN AMERICAN FOOT STOMPING CHEERS
by Azizi Powell, September 8, 2016, https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/when-i-started-collecting-examples-of.html

Cassette Taping My Daughter's Cheers- mid 1980s 

I first became aware of what I now called foot stomping cheers around 1985 when I observed my then twelve year old daughter and her girlfriends of similar ages chanting cheers while doing choreographed routines. I knew that my sisters, my girlfriends, and I hadn't performed cheers like that when we were children and pre-teens. And since I hadn't seen or heard those types of cheers being performed before, I wondered if this was a new form of children's recreational activity. Since I considered (and still consider) myself as an amateur community folklorist, I began recording and writing down the words to those cheers.

In those days I used the term "sidewalk cheers" to refer to the subset of children's cheerleader cheers that I now call "foot stomping cheers". Most of the "sidewalk cheers" that I collected in the mid 1980s were from my daughter Tazi [pronunciation: TAH-zee] Powell (now Hughes).

Around 1992 I asked Tazi to show me how she and her girlfriends "did" foot stomping cheers. As she demonstrated the foot stomping and alternate hand claps (or body pats), I audio recorded those performances on a cassette tape. Although I recall transcribing some portions of that tape, I misplaced those transcriptions. In 1996 I found that cassette tape, and another cheer cassette tape and I transcribed both of those tapes.

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Lillian Taylor Camp: 1989-1992 [edited Nov. 11, 2022]
In the summers of 1989 - 1992 when she was still in college, my daughter Tazi served as a Kingsley Association counselor for its Lillian Taylor Camp summer sessions. Lillian Taylor Camp was a camp for children ages 5-12 years of age. The  camp grounds were outside of Pittsburgh in Valencia, Pennsylvania. Most of the boys and girls who attended Kingsley Association sponsored sessions of Lillian Taylor camp were from the East End neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, including the mostly Black working class neighborhoods of East Liberty and Garfield. My daughter and I have lived in the neighborhood of East Liberty since 1978. 

Kingsley Association is still located in the neighborhood of East Liberty. During the time that I directly collected foot stomping cheers My daughter taught at Fort Pitt Elementary School, and I was a substitute teacher there for a short time.  Fort Pitt Elementary School closed in 2011. 

In 1992 Tazi was that camp's "cheer coach". At the end of each four week segment of that camp, each group had to participate in a camp show for the entire camp, their parents, and other guests. Most of the girl groups chose to perform an example of a foot stomping cheer. In her role as cheer coach, Tazi either taught those groups foot stomping cheers from the mid 1980s or helped them decide on a cheer to perform that a member or some members of their group already knew. She would then help the members of each group learn the words to their cheer and also supervise them while they practiced the cheer's foot stomping routine (as all members of the group had to perform together, and not just those who were "good at keeping on beat").

In her role as cheer coach, Tazi heard some of the same exact cheers that she and her girlfriends did in the mid 1980s. She also learned different versions of those old cheers. And she learned cheers that were completely new to her. Knowing about my interest in what I then called "sidewalk cheers", Tazi received permission to audio tape some examples of those cheers. She then played that cassette tape for me, and demonstrated those cheers' foot stomping/hand clapping routines. I also attended one camp show and saw the campers perform some of those cheers. Although I believe that I recorded that tape in 1992, I didn't transcribe those cheers from that tape until 1996.

Having campers from various Pittsburgh neighborhoods was one way that cheers were spread from one Pittsburgh community to another. In addition, campers learned examples of cheers that came from other cities. In 1992 one of the girls who attended Lillian Taylor Camp was from Washington, D.C. and was visiting her Pittsburgh cousin. That's how the cheer "Chocolate City" found its way into my cheer collection:

CHOCOLATE CITY*
All: Chock-let City.
Chock chock-let City.
Chock-let City.
Chock Chock-let City.
Soloist #1: My name is [girl says her name or nickname]
And I'm walkin.
Group: She's walkin.
Soloist #1: I'm talkin.
Group: She's talkin.
Soloist #1: I'M TALKIN TO [girls stop using first step beat]
All the boys in Chock-let City [begin new faster tempo step beat]
Get down to the nitty gritty.
Long time no see.
Sexy as I wanna be.
Some hittin me high.
Some hittin me low.
Some hittin me on my-
Don't ask what.
Group: What?
Soloist #1: My b-u-tt butt
That's what.

Repeat from the beginning with the next soloist who says her name or nickname. Continue this pattern until every girl in the group has had one chance as the soloist with this cheer.
-T.M.P, tape recording of African American girl campers, 1992.(Lillian Taylor Camp)
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* "Chocolate City"  is the nickname for "Washington, D.C."
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Tazi told me that some campers wanted to say "Pittsburgh City" instead of "Chocolate City". But they were out voted.

Note that I collected the exact same words for "Chocolate City" in 1999 from Chatauqua (African American female, 10 year old) & Ralene (African American female, 12 years old , both from the Garfield section of Pittsburgh, PA, (at Fort Pitt School); Fort Pitt School was in the Garfield section of Pittsburgh. Garfield is very near the East Liberty neighborhood were my family lived (and where I still live). Furthermore, the majority of Lillian Taylor campers were from East Liberty as that was (and still is) where Kingsley Association, the organization that owned that camp, was/is based.

My daughter Tazi was a teacher at Fort Pitt Elementary school in 1999 when I collected this cheer. I wasn't a substitute teacher at that school until 2007 and we didn't begin Fort Pitt's Alafia Children's Ensemble program* until 2003. In any event, Tazi indicated that she didn't teach anyone at Fort Pitt School that "Chocolate City" cheer and she was surprised to learn that any students in that school knew that cheer. I have never read or heard that cheer anywhere else and I think it's very likely that those two girls learned "Chocolate City" from someone who attended that particular Lillian Taylor camp session, or from someone who learned that cheer from an attendee of that 1992 camp session."
-end of 2016 excerpt-
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*Alafia Children's Ensemble (Braddock, Pennsylvania): 2002 - 2004 was one of the ways that I collected foot stomping cheers. I wrote this portion of this post in 2016 for the pancocojams "How I Started Collecting Foot Stomping Cheers" post:
"From around 2002 until around the end of 2004, I received Pittsburgh multicultural Initiative grants to organize and co-led (with my daughter Tazi Powell) a children's group that I named "Alafia Children's Ensemble". This first "chapter" of Alafia Children's Ensemble was located in Braddock, Pennsylvania, Braddock is about forty minutes from my home in Pittsburgh. Braddock's Alafia sessions were held for one and a half hour, one evening a week and consisted of two groups that shared a beginning assembly and an ending assembly. One group learned and performed traditional and adapted African American game songs. Members of this group were encouraged to share examples of rhymes and cheers that they knew with the possibility that those examples would become part of the group's performance repertoire. Members of Braddock's Alafia game song & cheers component were mostly African American and mostly girls ages 5-12 years. The other half of Braddock's Alafia group consisted of a beginners' djembe (African drum) class. Although it wasn't designed that way, every member of that component were African American boys between the ages of 8-12 years."...

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Do you remember the "Chocolate City" foot stomping cheer?
If so, please share the words to the version of that cheer that you remember in the comment section below. Also, please include demographic information such as when [year or decade] you first chanted or heard this cheer, where (city/state) you lived  when you first chanted or heard that cheer, and any other information (such as your race and gender and the age you were) when you first learned or heard that cheer.) Thanks!.

This concludes Part IV of this pancocojams series.

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Examples Of "Hollywood Goes Swingin"- The Girls' Foot Stomping Cheer That Became A Hand Clap Rhyme

Edited by Azizi Powell

Latest revision - Title change May 2, 2o26

This pancoocjams post is a compilation of "Hollywood Swingin'" ("Hollywood Goes Swingin") or similarly titled cheers/rhymes .

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

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Kool & The Gang music group for their recording of "Hollywood Swinging" which inspired this children's cheer & rhyme. Thanks to all those who have contributed examples of this cheer/rhyme.
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This is a complete reprint/update of a pancocojams post that was first published in 2016. That post has six comments as of June 6, 2025.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/foot-stomping-cheers-alphabetical-list_6.html for Part III of a five part pancocojams series entitled Pancocojams Compilation Of Foot Stomping Cheers (Alphabetical List: H - J). The links to the other posts in that series are given in each of those posts. 

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 Added June 8, 2025] INFORMATION ABOUT HOLLYWOOD

"Hollywood" in these and in other children's cheers and rhymes refers to "Hollywood, California. Here's some information from 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood,_Los_Angeles
"Hollywood, sometimes informally called Tinseltown, is a neighborhood and district[2] in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, within the city of Los Angeles. Its name has become synonymous with the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios such as Sony Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures are located in or near Hollywood.

Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903.[3][4] The northern and eastern parts of the neighborhood were consolidated with the City of Los Angeles in 1910. Soon thereafter, the prominent film industry migrated to the area.[5][6]."
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The vernacular term "swinging" in Kool & The Gang's 1973 hit R&B song "Hollywood Swinging" song means that something-good or bad-is always happening in Hollywood.

That same meaning pertains to the phrase "goes swingin" in the children's cheers/rhymes that were inspired by that Kool & The Gang song. Notice these lines from versions of that children's cheer/rhyme:
"Hollywood goes swingin'. Hollywood goes swingin.
Swingin for the good times. Swingin for the bad times."

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE ABOUT "HOLLYWOOD GOES SWINGING" CHEERS/HAND CLAP RHYMES 
"Hollywood Goes Swingin" cheers/rhymes were inspired by Kool & The Gang's 1973 hit R&B/funk hit record "Hollywood Swingin'. Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Swinging for information about that record.

The examples of "Hollywood Swinging" cheers/rhymes that I have observed have the same tune as end of that hit R&B song when the Kool &The Gang music group sings "Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood, now swinging".. Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Iorb4pWu8 for a YouTube video of that song. 

The notes for the vinyl record Old Mother Hippletoe: Rural and Urban Children’s Songs (New World NW 291) documents that within two or three years of the release of Kool & The Gang's "Hollywood Swinging" record, African American school girls in Washington, D.C." were performing a cheer entitled "Hollywood Now Swingin'".

All of the examples of "Hollywood Swingin" that I've found to date which include demographic notes are from African American females. However, it's likely that females of other races and ethnicities as well as some males also chanted "Hollywood Swinging" cheers.

Unfortunately, I haven't found any videos of the foot stomping cheer or hand clap examples of "Hollywood Goes Swing"  or similar titles.

Most of the examples of "Hollywood Swingin",cheers/rhymes (with or without a title that includes the word "Hollywood") that are presented in this pancocojams post are from online sources that didn't mention any geographic location. I'm assuming that all of these examples are from the United States. 

The examples of "Hollywood Swingin" cheers/rhymes that contributors gave with a geographical location are from Washington, D.C. ( vinyl record & record noted), Houston, Texas,(in a book of Black American's children's rhymes), and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (in a book of children's rhymes).

I directly collected most of the examples of these "Hollywood Swinging" cheers/rhymes in this compilation that are from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (or from some of its surrounding communities). 

The remainder of these examples of "Hollywood Swinging" cheers/rhymes whose contributors' mentioned their geographical location from online sources, including from my cocojams.com website that was voluntarily de-activated in 2014. The geographic locations locations that contributors' mentioned along with their examples of "Hollywood Swingin"  were Chicago, Illinois, Birmingham, Alabama, and Richmond, Virginia,

I collected all of the other "Hollywood Swingin" examples that are included in this compilation,  from the internet, particularly from visiting online websites of African American childhood rhymes/cheers and from reading certain YouTube video discussion threads of American children's rhymes and cheers.

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It seems likely to me that examples of "Hollywood Swinging" were known to African American girls throughout much of the United States along with other examples of foot stomping cheers such as "Hula Hula", "Introduce Yourself", and "Fly Girl". Notice how similar many of these examples are, particularly those examples from the 1980s and on.

Update: June 6, 2025- This post presents 29 examples of "Hollywood Swinging" foot stomping cheers or hand clap rhymes. 2008 is the latest date for this cheer/rhyme being performed in the present and not being shared from a person's childhood memory.[Read Example #13)..  

I haven't found any examples of "Hollywood Goes Swingin'" cheers/rhymes being performed after 2008 or 2009. Some other foot stomping cheers/rhymes are still chanted in modified forms, largely thanks to such as the Bring It On series of cheerleader movies, as softball chants, and/or as children's camp songs..

Click https://cocojams2.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-influence-of-bring-it-on-movies-on.html for my 2014 cocojams2 post entitled "The Influence Of "Bring It On" Movies On Children's Cheerleading".

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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/05/an-overview-of-foot-stomping-movement.html for an overview of foot stomping cheers.

Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/01/examples-of-hollywood-swinigin-hand.html for a 2014 pancocojams post entitled "Examples of "Hollywood Swinging" Hand Clap Rhymes From Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" that includes some of the examples that are found in this post with additional comments.

Also, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/06/some-examples-of-softball-chants-that.html for the related pancocojams post entitled "Some Examples Of Softball Chants That Have Their Source In "Introduce Yourself" ("My Name Is __") Foot Stomping Cheers."

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EXAMPLES OF "HOLLYWOOD" (HOLLYWOOD SWINGIN" RHYMES AND CHEERS [with available notes & citations]

These examples are given in relative chronological order by year or decade, if known. Numbers are assigned for referencing purposes only.

1.
From http://www.newworldrecords.org/liner_notes/80291.pdf Old Mother Hippletoe: Rural and Urban Children’s Songs
(New World NW 291), Band 3

Barbara Borum and other Washington, D.C., schoolgirls, vocals.
Recorded 1976 in Washington, D.C., by Kate Rinzler.
"Unlike the more communal games, neighborhood cheerleading as performed by girls in Washington, D.C., requires rehearsal and is often dominated by a single dynamic girl who solicits recruits and kicks out slackers. Girls practice by themselves, best friends cheer together, groups proliferate, and everyone who wants to gets into the act."...

HOLLYWOOD NOW SWINGIN' / DYNOMITE
Hollywood now swingin'! (4 times)
CALL: Name is Nita.
RESPONSE: Hollywood now swingin'!
Similarly
I know how to swing.
Every time I swing,
Stevie come around.
CALL: He popped me once.
He popped me twice!
All I felt was—dynomite!
RESPONSE: Dynomite, dynomite!
(Twice)
Dynomite!
CALL: Here she is.
RESPONSE:Dynomite!
Similarly
Foxy Brown!
You mess with me,
I'll shoot you down!
Down, down,
To the ground, Up, up,
CALL: Just out of luck!
RESPONSE: Dynomite, dynomite!
(Twice)
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This vinyl record album was first released in 1978.
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2.
From Barbara Michels, Bettye White, editors, Apples On A Stick, The Folklore of Black Children; (Coward-McCann, Inc, 1983, p.14)

HOLLYWOOD ROCK SWINGING
Hollywood rock swinging
Hollywood rock swinging

My name is Aniesha
I'm number one
My reputation is having fun
So if you see my just step aside
'Cause mighty Aniesha don't take no jive

Hollywood rock swinging
Hollywood rock swinging

My name is Katrina
I'm number two
My reputation is me and you
So if you see me just step on back
'Cause mighty Katrina don't take no slack

Hollywood rock swinging
Hollywood rock swinging

My name is Natasha
I'm number twelve
My reputation is ringing that bell
So if you see me just step aside
'Cause mighty Natasha don't take no jive
-snip-
The preface to this book indicated that the examples were collected from Black school children in Houston, Texas. No rhyme categories or performance descriptions are given for any of those examples.

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Example #3:HOLLYWOOD GOES SWINGING
Entire Group- Hollywood goes swinging
Hollywood goes swing- ing
Swinging for the good times.
Swinging for the bad times.
1st Soloist- My name is [insert first name or nickname]
(And) I'm cool and the gang.
Mess with me and I'll do my thang.
My sign is [says her sun sign such as "Taurus" or "Libra"]
And that's alright.
Cause all [says her sun sign]
Are out of sight.
Entire Group-Hey, you- check it out.
You, you check it out.

[The cheer begins from the beginning with the next soloist.]
-snip-
The order of the soloists was often determined by which girl was the fastest to yell out "First!", "Second!" , "Third!" etc.
-Tazi M. Powell's memories of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (East Liberty section] in the mid 1980s; African American teenage girls, 
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Example #4

ya'll I just remembered this one.
It just came to me..
Hollywood Swingin”
Hollywood (keep) swingin’
Hollywood Swingin”
Hollywood (keep) swingin’
My name is ___ I’m number one.
My reputation is having fun.
So if you see me
Just step aside
Cause mighty ___
Don’t take no jive!

Repeat chorus

My name is ___ I’m number two
My reputation is loving you.

It goes on and on and on and on!

Have mercy!"
-- AKA2D '91; 12-29-2000, http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=4123&page=2; Childhood chants and games [page 3 of 4 page discussion]
-snip-
AKA@D'01 and other participants in this 2000 discussion are from historically Black Greek letter sororities. AKA= Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. '91 [1991] is likely the year that she "went over" (officially became a member of ) AKA.

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Examples #5, #6, & #7
These three examples of "Hollywood Swinging" chants are from a six page 2003 GreekChat.com. discussion thread entitled "Old School Chants".

Commenters who participated in that 2003 discussion were members of historically Black Greek letter sororities. One commenter wrote that these examples are "inspired by the 1970s". Another commenter wrote that she and a friend who remembered a certain rhyme were 23 and 24 years (in 2003). Yet another commenter had the screen name "Honeykiss1974". The "1974" is probably the year she was born. Given the fact that some commenters mentioned just graduating or preparing to graduate from universities, it's likely that most of these examples of cheers/rhymes were from the 1980s. 

That said, one example entitled "Tell it" mentions the rapper Nas who didn't begin his Hip Hop career until 1991 and whose highly regarded album Illmatic wasn't released until 1994. Therefore, it's likely that any version of that cheer that mentions Nas* was from 1994 or later.

*Nas isn't the same rapper as Lil Nas X, who recorded the 2019 country rap song "Old Town Road".

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5. From http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/archive/index.php/t-31403.html
Old School Chants [page 1 of 6 pages]

kisha, 03-25-2003
[no location noted]
"Hollywoods are swingin, Hollywoods are swingin
My name is Kisha and I’m cool in the gang
If you don’t like it, I’ll tell you one thang,
My sign is Aquarius and that’s alright,
Cause all ‘quarius are dynomite
Others: Uhn, she think she bad
Me: Bad enough to kick yo bleep (I used to say bleep for real back in the day)
Others: Uhn, she think she fine
Me: fine enough to blow yo mine
Others: Ah girl, stop yo lyin’ you know yo man leave you cryin
Hollywoods are swingin, Hollywoods are swingin"

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6. From http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=31403&page=3 Old School Chants

Mz Destiny, 03-25-2003
Location: Philadelphia, PA
"remember this one?
Hollywood got swingers
Hollywood got swingers
Hollywood got swingers
Hollywood got swingers

My name is ______ I'm number 1
My reputation's just begun
My sign's ________ and that's alright
Cuz all ______ are dynamite!

Hush chile...I ain't lyin'!!!"

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7. AKA2D '91, 03-26-2003
[quote]

Originally posted by sigmadiva

Re: A 70's inspired chant
I don't remember all of it but it went something like this:

My name is __________, my number is one,
my reputation is having fun,
those who see me step aside,
mighty (Zodiac sign) don't take no jive.

My name is ______, my number is two,
my reputation is loving you,
those who see me step aside,
mighty (Zodiac sign) don't take no jive

My name is _______, my number is three,
my reputation is being free,
those who see me step aside
mighty (Zodiac sign) don't take no jive.


Each person in the group would pick a number and it would go around until you get to the number 10. I don't remember all the rhymes, but I am sure creative people can think of stuff to say.;)"

[end of quote]

THAT WAS OUR HOLLYWOOD KEEP SWINGING.
-snip-
This was the way this comment was written in that discussion thread.

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Examples #8 and #9
These two examples are from lipstickalley.com's "Hood Cheers" 2006 discussion thread (remembrances of childhood cheers). Given the title of the thread, it's probable that all are the participants are Black. A commenter wrote that these examples "took her back to the summer of the 80s". [08-18-2006, 11:59 AM #24 Cherica Cherry.] 

It's possible that the other participants in this discussion also remembered these examples from the 1980s.

8.
From http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php/43158-Hood-Cheers
08-18-2006, 10:22 AM #1
Cocaine [This commenter's earlier screen name was yellagirl3658. That name is a reference to her light skin.]

Hood Cheers
When we were kids, what were some of your favorite hood cheers? Post 'em here. Mine was "Hollywood Not Swingin'"

Hollywood not swingin', Hollywood not...swingin'
Hollywood not swingin', Hollywood not...swingin'

Well my name is Yella, my number's 1,
My reputation is havin' fun,
So if you see me just step aside,
Because this light chick don't take no jiiiiiiiiivvveeee... .

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9. 08-18-2006, 10:53 AM #10
GODDESS! [commenter's screen name]

Tee Hee Hee...

we had a similar one...

Hollywood in my swinging...hollywood in my swingin
hollywood in my swinging...hollywood in my swingin

My name is Goddess! and I'm Kool and the Gang..
and if you don't like it let me tell you one thang...
my sign is a scorpio and that's alright
cus all scorpios are dynomite!

homegirls: uh! she think she bad
me: hush honey I know I'm bad

Homegirls: uh! she think she cool
me: cool enough to steal your dude

homegirls: uh! she think she fine
me: fine enough to blow your mind

homegirls: aw girl stop that lyin
me: at least my man didn't leave me crying

(repeat until everyone gets a turn)
-snip-
In another comment, Goddess! wrote that she was from Chi-town (Chicago, Illinois).

Another commenter wrote this about "Hollywood Not Swingin'" cheers:
8-18-2006, 12:08 PM #26
mollflanders
..."And Hollywood not swingin. It was only fun if you could make up your own ending. The older we got, the nastier they got lol." https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/hood-cheers.43158/

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Examples #10 - #13 - I collected these examples of "Hollywood Swinging" from African American pre-teenage girls in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1998. 

10. HOLLYWOOD GOES SWINGIN'

[Both girls] Hollywood.
Hollywood.
Hollywood goes swingin.
Hollywood goes SWINGIN.
Swingin for the good times.
Swingin for the bad times.
[One girl]: My name is Teneisha
and I’m number 9.
I’m kickin it with Ginuwine.*
If you ever see me on the street,
you better speak.
“Long time, no see.”
Sexy as I wanna be.
Some hittin me high.
Some hittin me low.
Some hittin me in my-
Don’t ask what.
My b u t t b u t t butt.
That’s what.
-Teneisha (10 years) and Antoinette (11 years) (African American females, East Hills section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1998; collected by Azizi Powell, 1998
-snip-
Kickin it" means "relaxing with", "hangin" with (socializing with).

*"Ginuwine" is a popular young African R&B singer. Three other late 1990s variations of this line that I have heard are “Kickin it with Busta Rhymes (the name of a popular male Hip-Hop star) “Kickin it with Scooby Doo": "Scooby Doo" is the name of a canine cartoon figure) and “Kickin it with Winnie the Poo”- the name of a fictitious bear in children's stories.

This was performed as a two person hand clap rhyme. I was surprised to see this as I had always saw it performed as a foot stomping cheer, or at least that's my memory of this rhyme. My daughter who was with me when I collected this rhyme showed Teneisha and Antoinette the movements for foot stomping cheers. They indicated that they'd never seen "Hollywood" "done" like that. They only knew it as a hand clap rhyme.

Since hand clap rhymes are usually chanted in unison, the fact that these hand clap partners take turns chanting lines in this (and in other) "Hollywood" rhymes suggests to me that this rhyme did indeed start out as a foot stomping cheer. 

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11. HOLLYWOOD GOES SWINGIN'
Hollywood
Hollywood
Hollywood goes swingin
Hollywood goes __ swingin [The dash here means to pause one beat before saying the next word.]
Swingin for Northside.
Swingin for the Eastside.
My name is Rita.
I'm Number 9
Going down Chicago line.
If you see me on the street
You better speak [I couldn't decipher the next words]
Hey hey, you think you cool.
Hey hey, cool enough to rule your school.
Hey hey, you think you bad.
Bad enough to ____ [The girls and boys self-censored what was supposed to be chanted. This was confirmed by a teenage volunteer who still wouldn't tell me what was supposed to be said]
-African American girls and boys; Northview Heights Buddy Program, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 19, 1999; collected by Azizi Powell

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12. HOLLYWOOD GOES SWINGIN'

Hollywood (clap clap clap)
Hollywood (clap clap clap)
Hollywood goes swingin.
My name is Shanika.
I'll bust it out.
I'll party to the left
I'll party to the right.
I'll party all night.
I'll party all day.
My name is Sandra.
I'm number one
[I couldn't decipher the next line]
I'm busting all day.
I'm busting all night.
She's busting to the left.
She's busting to the right.
-Shanika and Sandra (African American females, under 11 years old) ; Garfied section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; November 1, 2000; collected by Azizi Powell, hand clap rhyme November 1, 2000

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13. HOLLYWOOD GOES SWINGIN'

Both girls:
Hollywood, Hollywood
Hollywood goes swingin
Partner #1:
My name is Raya and I'm number 2
Kickin it with Scooby Doo
Hit me high
Hit me low
Hit me where you wanna go.

Repeat the entire rhyme with the partner #1 saying the lines that partner #1 said, but substitute her name or nickname and (preferably) change the number rhyme. (Each number has one or more rhymes that can be memorized and chanted according to the girl's preference. Number rhymes can also be made up. However, if "Hollywood Swingin" was a foot stomping cheer, the girl who actually was the second soloist, probably would have chanted "I'm number 2" and the soloist who was number 9, probably would have chanted "I'm number 9".).
-ConRaya E. (11 years); Sha'Ona K. (11 years), African American girls; Pittsburgh, PA; 6/12/2008
-snip-
I collected this rhyme during these girls' school lunch period (when I was a substitute teacher at that school). My recollection is that these two girls basically recited the rhyme and didn't do any movements. Although I didn't write down anything about how this rhyme was performed, the fact that I wrote "partner" suggests that the girls said it was a hand clap rhyme.

There are a number of similar titles for this rhyme. Among them are "Hollywood", "Hollywood Rocks Swingin", and "Hollywood Keeps Swinging". The tune for the handclap rhyme (and the foot stomping cheer with the same name) is very similar to Kool & The Gang's "Hollywood Swingin'" 1974 record. However, the tempo for examples that I've observed of the rhyme/cheer is somewhat faster.

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14.
From DC, http://blog.oftheoctopuses.com/000518.php12/9/2005 [website no longer active], example posted on that website on February 9, 2005
"Here's a handclap called hollywood!
(person 1) My name is (your name) im number one my reputation's just begun so turn around and touch the ground get back up and break it down

(person 2) you think you're bad

(1) b-a-d i know im bad

(2) you tink you're cool

(1) cool enough to rule the school

(2) you think your fine

(1) fine fine blow your mind mind take em up take em back give the man a heart attack

(2) you think you're hott

(1) hott anough to blow your pot!

That's it....there's clapping and all but its too hard to explain on this...good luck!

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15.
From http://onolympus.proboards.com/thread/7297/favorite-childhood-rhymes-clapping-games, OOA Old Head, Aug 5, 2009

"...Anybody remember "Hollywood Go Swinging"?

Hollywood go swinging, Hollywood go swinging!
My name is [Z] I'm cool and hey, don't mess with me or I'll do my thang, my sign is Pisces, but that's alright, 'cause all Pisces are DY-NO-MYTE!

ALL: UM! She thinks she bad!
ME: Correction baby, I KNOW I'm bad!
ALL: Um! She thinks she cool!
ME: Cool enough to be no fool
ALL: UM! She think she fine!
ME: Fine enough to blow your mind!

Hollywood go swinging, Hollywood go swinging!"
-snip-
This commenter's screen "photo: is a drawing of Black woman along with a note that says “Hello Negro" with the “o”s in those words substituted for a drawing of a Black person.

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16.
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSf5zITOWls
Hand Game #4 [in that video] : Girls' title: "Hollywood" [video published in 2013]

Hollywood [clap clap].
Hollywood goes swingin.
Hollywood goes swingin
My name is [I think this name is "Kalyse", the name of one of the girls in the video.]
I’m on the phone
With my baby I’m all alone
If you see me on the street
Ooh, you better talk to me.
ooh, she thinks she’s cute.
Cute enough to steal your boo.
Ooh, she thinks she bad
B. A. D. I know I’m bad.
Ooh, he thinks he’s cute
Cute enough to be my boo.
Said Hollywood.
Hollywood
Hollywood
1
2
3
Hollywood.
-snip-
Zoe and Kalyse are the names of the girls in this video.

The girls may be saying “swimming" instead of "swinging".

Notice that this is a dialogue between two people. For instance, one person says "Ooh, she thinks she's cute." And the person who is being addressed says "Cute enough to steal your boo".

In the context of this rhyme, "bad" means "very good".
When girls say it "boo" can mean your boyfriend" (or, when boys say it "your girlfriend)".
-snip-
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/01/black-girls-performing-various-hand.html for a pancocojams post on this video.

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17. BEVERLY ROAD GOES SWINGING [Excerpt- Double Dutch jump rope rhyme]
From the 1997 book Mama’s Girl by Veronica Chambers

Beverly Road go swinging
Beverly Road go swing-ing
Beverly Road go swinging
Beverly Road go swing-ing

Ooh she thinks she’s bad
Baby, I know I’m bad
Ooh, she thinks she cool
Cool enough to steal your dude

From http://www.amazon.com/Mamas-Girl-Veronica-Chambers/dp/1573225991 Publisher: Riverhead Books (May 1, 1997)
"On the streets of Brooklyn in the 1970s, Veronica Chambers mastered the whirling helixes of a double-dutch jump rope."
-snip-
These two excerpts preface the author's remembrances of jumping double dutch rope with her girlfriends.

Here's information about Beverley Road (Brooklyn)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_Road_(BMT_Brighton_Line):
"Beverley Road is a local station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. It is located over a private right-of-way at Beverly Road between Marlborough Road/East 15th Street and East 16th Street in the neighborhood of Flatbush, Brooklyn. It is served by the Q train at all times."
-snip-
This pdf file also contains an excerpt of a rhyme that reads like another version of "Hollywood Goes Swinging": http://drshantesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/LaunchExcerpt.pdf excerpt from Dr. Shante’s book, Believing Bigger:
A 31-Day Faith Journey, available March 1, 2016:
“Oooh! She think she cool…Cool enough to steal your dude. Oooh! She think she fine...
Fine enough to blow his mind. Awww girl stop your lying! At least my (man) didn’t
leave me crying.”
-snip-
The author, Dr. Shante, indicates that she and her friends sang this while playing jump rope when they were three and four years old.

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18. ANGELS GO SWINGING
From Joi; (Birmingham, Alabama; 1990s), cocojams.com*, 3/23/2008

Group: Angels go swinging
angels go swinging!
angels go swinging,
Angels go Swinging!
Solo:My name is Katy
I'm number 1
my reputation has just begun
so if you see me just step aside
'cause me and my man
don't take no jive
Group: Uh, you thank (think) you bad
Solo: Bad enough to make you mad
Group, Uh, you thank you cool
Solo: Cool enough to go to high school
Group: Uh, you thank you fine
Solo: Fine enough to MO,
fine enough to Macho (not really sure what this line means or if we were even saying it right)
fine enough to hula hoop,
fine enough to kick yo' duke
Everyone: say what, say what
say what say what say what
-snip-
* cocojams.com was the name of my multi-page cultural website that included several pages of children's recreational rhymes, singing games, and cheerleader cheers. That website was active online from January 2001 to Nov. 2014. 
-snip-
"Angels" is a group name.

Note that the word "thank" (in the line "Uh, You thank you bad" etc.) probably isn't a typo. Instead, it probably is a purposely pronounced African American Vernacular English word that means “REALLY think”. A similar example of an informal Black vernacular intensifier form of an already existing word ss the word "sang". In some contexts, "sang" is a present tense of the word "sing" and means "to sing very well", especially "to sing soulfully really well".

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19. HOLLYWOOD 
From Recess Battles: Playing Fighting, and Storytelling by Anna R. Beresin (University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2010, page 108-109, in the section of that book whose sub-title is "Steps"), African American girls, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992

Hollywood
Words -------------------------------------------------Basic Motion
Hollywood got Meeca------------------------in pairs, in two lines, retreating
Hollywood got Meeca------------------------right rocks back, left in place
Hollywood got Meeca------------------------right in place, pause, clap
And always do----------------------------------repeat until the end

[Meeca]
Well, it looks like me got number 20
Watch the power of the money
if you see me on the street
Hey girl you better speak

[all]

Hey you think you bad

{Meeca]
Me? I know I’m bad

[all]
Hey you think you cute

[Meeca]
Cute fine sexy too

[all]

Hey you think you fine
[Meeca]
I’m fine I’ll blow your mind

[109
I got a man, he’s twenty-nine
Tic tac Paddy whack
Who you think you looking at?
A-B-C-D- Gonna have a baby

Reese’s pieces butter cup
If you next U wish you luck

[all]
Hollywood got Licia
Hollywood got Licia
Hollywood got Licia
And always do

[Licia]
Well, it looks like me got number 4
Watch the prowler at the door
if you see me on the street
Hey girl you better speak to me

[all]

Hey you think you bad

[Licia]
Least I pick my maxi pad

[all]
Hey you think you cute

[Licia]
Least I’m not a prostitute

[all]
Hey you think you fine
[Licia]
I’m fine I’ll blow your mind
I got a man, he’s twenty-nine
Tic tac Paddy whack
Who you think you looking at?
A-B-C-D- Gonna have a baby

-snip-

The bold font is how those words were given in that book. The underlined words were how those words were given in that book. That underlining probably means that those words wee emphasized. lines that 

This example is given in the sub-section for "Steps." "Steps" is another referent for what I call "Foot stomping cheers". It's interesting that Anna R. Beresin documented "Hollywood" as a "Step" while each of the examples of "Hollywood" that I collected in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were performed as two person hand clap rhymes - the earliest example dating from 1998 and the newest example that I collected from 2008/2009. Yet, I thought that I remembered seeing "Hollywood"" performed in Pittsburgh as a cheer. This example from Philly (about 4 1/2 hours from Pittsburgh) suggests that my memory may be right.

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20. HOLLYWOOD GO SWINGING [fragment]
From AutumnShadow, https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/black-girl-rhymes-what-was-yours-growing-up.1196979/page-3, Jun 26, 2017

"We had some old school ones that my aunt and older cousins her age taught us.

[...]

"Hollywood go swinging!
Hollywood go swinging
(this one is long so I'm not gon type it all)"...

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21. CALL REPUTATION 
From yaya, cocojams.com, 2/23/2007 
my name is yonnqa
i'm number one
my reputation has just begun
so if you see me
step a side
cause i don't take no jive
oh think she cool
correction baby
i no i'm cool
i no karate
i no kunfu
you miss with me
i co it on you*
rasasol o dazzo o ox2
-snip-
The contributor wrote that this cheer was called "Call Reputation". I have other examples of this cheer (without the "don't take no jive" phrase) that have the title "Razzle Dazzle".
"no"= known
* I'm not sure what "co" means. 
** I think ox2 means to repeat that line two times.

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22. HOLLYWOOD 
From Tik Tok Video; The Sol Doula, March 8, 2023, Richmond, Virginia “Hollywood Hand Clap Game" #childhoodmemories [This is my unofficial transcription from .41 of this Tik Tok video. Additions and corrections are welcome.] 

Another one I remember is "Hollywood". Did you play Hollywood as a child?

I was thinking some of It was inappropriate. It went like this.

Hollywood goes swingin

Hollywood goes – swingin

My name is Audi

On the phone

With my purple Reeboks on

[I think it goes like this]

If you see me on the street

Ooh you better start to speak.

“Ugh, she thinks she bad”

B. A. D.” that’s me baby

“Ugh, she thinks she cool”

Cooler than your mama, fool.

“Ugh she thinks she fine”

[Get ready- Begins chanting with a faster tempo]

Fine, fine, blow your mind

Take your man anytime.

Bring him home

Bring him back

I’m still drivin his Cadillac

He bought me one

He bought me two

He married me

Divorced you

Bang Bang and choo choo train

Come on girls, let’s do our thing

I can’t

Why not

“cause I can’t

Why not?

Because my back is hurtin

My bras too tight

My booty shakin from the left to the right

Left right

Left right

Reesie Peesie Buttercup

You mess with me

I’ll mess you up.

end of rhyme.
Original Poster- "What? I think there are a couple of different versions of that rhyme, too."

My name is Audi

On the phone

With my purple Reeboks on

Ooh she thinks she bad

At least I got a wash rag.
-snip-
*The Sol Doula is a young Black American woman. She begins this video by sharing that her friend reminded her of some games that they played every day during recess and whenever they had some spare time.

Here are two comments from that tick tok post [Unfortunately, this Tick Tok video won't publish on this YouTube format.

(Numbers added for referencing purposes only.)

1oohhwwee, 2023-3-8
"lol Hollywood sounds like a lot of different ones meshed together😂😂and no I've never heard that one 😂😂 cute thou. we were too grown😂😂"

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2. A random a account, 2023, 3-10
"I am so sick that you literally have the only video on this app that talks about the Hollywood game😂 I used to play it when I was a girl it was the best!"

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23, 24, 25. HOLLYWOOD 
From global, Feb, 2, 2012, https://blog.naver.com/junjo4/150168052684
Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood go swinging ooh she think she bad B.A.D i know im bad ooh she think she cool cool cool like scooby doo ooh she think she fine fine fine like lemon lime she think she cute cute cute like gin and juice my name is (insert name) and im a super fly girl it takes (#) boys to rock my world go sexy go sexy go.(then the person playing with you sayd the same thing.

this is how i sing it

Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood go swinging Hollywood go swinging my names(insert name)on the phone with my daisy dukes on if you see me in the streets boy you best speak to me uh she thinks shes b.a.d ,at least i use a wash rag ,ooh she thinks she cool coolest girl in high school ooh she thinks she fine fine number nine take me home bring me my man back besta have my cadalicc back bang bang choochoo train come again another day why not because i can't why not cause my back hurts from my bra to tight my booty shake to the left to the right left right shake that booty all night

This is how i sing it

Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood go swinging Hollywood go swinging my name is (Ur name) on the my cell with my apple bottoms on if you see me in the club boy you better speak to me uh she think she bad: B.A.D i know I'm bad uh she think she cool: coolest girl in (whatever one Ur in elementary, middle etc) uh she think she: fine fine fine # 8 take your man up on a date bring him home bring him back he best have my Cadillac he bought me me 1 he bought me 2 he married me divorced you bang bang choochoo train come on girl lets do our thing

(other person) i cant

(you) why not

(other person) because i cant

(you) why not

(other person) because my back is ache-ing and my bra is to tight and my booty shaking from the left to the right left right left right

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26.
https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/05/examples-of-hollywood-goes-swingin.html [comment]
Anonymous, February 13, 2023 

[WARNING - Some words in this example contain profanity which the contributor wrote with amended spelling .]

“Thank you for capturing these hand games/rhymes! "Hollywood Swinging" came to mind and when I googled some of the words your blog appeared. I am writing to share the version I know (or at least part of it).

For the record, I am a Black/African-American female born in 1981. I can recall singing this version with other Black/African-American girls around 1993/1994 near Philadelphia, PA. It is definitely on the raunchy side.

Hollywood now swing it, Hollywood now swing it.

Hollywood now swing it, Hollywood now swing it

My name is ___ I'm number 2 and I don't like you.

When you see me you turn and switch, humpf - you dirty b****!

Awh, you think you bad! B-A-D, huh, that's me.

Awh, you think you cute! Cute, cute ain't no prostitute.

Awh, you think you fine! Fine, fine I'll blow your mind. I'll take your man anytime."

In the bed….until he's dead!

-Anonymous, December 30, 2022 at 11:23 PM”

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27, 28, 29
from .https://blog.naver.com/junjo4/150168052684

내가 추가한 

나를 추가한 *

"What are the words to the Hollywood hand clapping game? [asked 2013, 5, 27]

[answer]
many differt ways to sing it but this is how i sing it:

Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood go swinging ooh she think she bad B.A.D i know im bad ooh she think she cool cool cool like scooby doo ooh she think she fine fine fine like lemon lime she think she cute cute cute like gin and juice my name is (insert name) and im a super fly girl it takes (#) boys to rock my world go sexy go sexy go.(then the person playing with you sayd the same thing.

this is how i sing it

Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood go swinging Hollywood go swinging my names(insert name)on the phone with my daisy dukes on if you see me in the streets boy you best speak to me uh she thinks shes b.a.d ,at least i use a wash rag ,ooh she thinks she cool coolest girl in high school ooh she thinks she fine fine number nine take me home bring me my man back besta have my cadalicc back bang bang choochoo train come again another day why not because i can't why not cause my back hurts from my bra to tight my booty shake to the left to the right left right shake that booty all night

This is how i sing it

Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood go swinging Hollywood go swinging my name is (Ur name) on the my cell with my apple bottoms on if you see me in the club boy you better speak to me uh she think she bad: B.A.D i know I'm bad uh she think she cool: coolest girl in (whatever one Ur in elementary, middle etc) uh she think she: fine fine fine # 8 take your man up on a date bring him home bring him back he best have my Cadillac he bought me me 1 he bought me 2 he married me divorced you bang bang choochoo train come on girl lets do our thing

(other person) i cant

(you) why not

(other person) because i cant

(you) why not

(other person) because my back is ache-ing and my bra is to tight and my booty shaking from the left to the right left right left right"
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*Google translate gave these results for those pictorial designs: from Korean to English -
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"Bang Bang Choo Choo Train" / "Brick Wall Waterfall (Documenting Dates For Some Examples Of These Rhymes: from 2011 to 2023)

Edited by Azizi Powell

Latest revision - October 15, 2025

This pancocojams post is part of an ongoing pancocojams series on the African American originated rhymes/cheers entitled "Bang Bang Choo Choo Train" and/or "Brick Wall Waterfall".

This series also includes examples of rhymes/cheers that have other titles but include lines from versions of "Bang Bang Choo Choo Train"/"Brick Wall Waterfall"

This post presents a compilation of some examples of the children's "Bang Bang Choo Choo Train" rhymes and cheers from 2011 to 2023. These examples are presented in chronological order by year, if that information was given. Geographic information is also given for some of these examples if that information is available. 

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

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. 
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/01/childrens-examples-of-bang-bang-choo.html for the closely related pancocojams post entitled "Bang Bang Choo Choo Train" (Documenting Dates For & Analysis Of Early Examples Of This Rhyme: early 1970s to 2010)".

Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/08/bang-bang-choo-choo-train-rhyme-cheer.html for the closely related pancocojams post entitled "Bang Bang Choo Choo Train rhymes and cheers (early sources & examples)"

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/01/bang-bang-choo-choo-train-tik-tok.html for the closely related pancocojams post entitled "Bang Bang Choo Choo Train Tik Tok Challenge Dance Compilation (Dancing To A Clip Of The 1995 Song "Giddy Up Let's Ride")".

That post showcases the 1995 record "Giddy Up let's Ride" by Kinsul. The prechorus and the bridge of that record includes lyrics from the "Bang Bang Choo Choo Train" rhyme. That record is featured in the 1997 American movie Baps. Also, as the above link indicates, the "Bang Bang Choo Choo train" words that were sung in that record were the music backdrop of the 2021 TikTok "Bang Bang Choo Choo Train" dance challenge. Click https://genius.com/Kinsui-giddy-up-lets-ride-lyrics for that record's complete lyrics.

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SELECTED EXAMPLES OF "BANG BANG CHOO CHOO TRAIN" RHYMES & CLOSELY RELATED RHYMES 

These examples are presented in relative chronological order based on their publishing date and not the date or decades that the commenters remembered chanting these rhymes/cheers.

Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.
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Notice that some of these examples have the group/soloist word structure of foot stomping cheers.

Also, read the note for Example #14 that includes lyrics for the 1995 Hip Hop "Giddy Up Let's Ride" song by Kinsui that includes words from the "Bang Bang Choo Choo Train" rhyme. A brief sound clip of that record was used in 2021 as the music for TikTok "Bang Bang Choo Choo Train" dance challenge videos.   

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BRICK WALL WATER FALL [Example #1]

"the way i learned it was " Brick wall waterfall girl you think you got it all but you dont, i do so boom wit that attitude, reeses pieces butter cup mess with me i mess you up, bang bang choo choo train wound me up and do my thing why not bc my back is aching my bras to tight my booty's shaking from the left to the right, this is skinny this is fat, boys whtacha looking at, all the boys on the floor saying check me out, check me out, mama mia,Then i learned another one was Cap.. Cap... Captain Crunch I got somethin you cant touch"
-Angelina Cisneros, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSbCOuhek4E&ab_channel=tishaechappelle [comment]

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BRICK WALL WATERFALL [Example #2]

"my version :brick wall waterfall.girl u think u got it all but u don I do so boom with that attitude come back u need a tic tak not one not two but whole 6 packs my back is aching and my shoes are to tight my hips are shaking from the left to the right chimy chimy coco puff chimmy chimy  pow chimy chimy get out right now"

-Tiana Archie, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSbCOuhek4E&ab_channel=tishaechappelle [comment]

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BRICK WALL WATERFALL [Example #3]

"This is how me and my friends say it,

brick wall waterfall boys think they know it all but they dont girls do so boom with that attitude reises pieces buttercup mess with me i mess u up, bang bang choo choo train comeone girl lets do our thing, why not i cant why not i cant cuz my back is achin and my skirts to tight and my bootys shakin from the left to the right"

-Jenna Yrell, 2014,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSbCOuhek4E&ab_channel=tishaechappelle [comment]

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REESE'S PIECES  [Example #4]

"Reese's Pieces, Butter Cup

Sing with us, we'll cheer you up!

Bang, Bang- Choo Choo Train

Come on _____ do your thing!

- I can't

- Why not?

-Cause I cant!

- Why not?

My back aches, My skirts too tight, my booty shake from the left to the right!

To the left, To the right. To the left, to the right, ot the left, to the right!

 (Repeat through whole team)"
-https://tafths.enschool.org/students/student_web/EAST/Academic%20Center%20Poms%20Website%20March2014/Cheer%20Website.html; March 2024 [Cheers for Basketball games] 

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ROCK THE BOAT  [Example #5]

"Oh! I remember how we did it at camp, now. The counselors would choose a camper and we'd sing the song.

Something like this:

Her name is Liesl! Rock the boat

She's doin' fine! Rock the boat

She'll do her thing! Rock the boat

She'll blow your mind! Rock the boat

Hit it!

Bang bang, choo choo train,

Wind her up, she'll do her thing,

No Reese's Pieces, no buttercup,

She'll show you how to pump it up!

She knows karate

She knows Kung Fu!

*__ __ __ __ __ __ ooo!

Rock clap the boat clap

Rock clap rock the oohah! oohah!

Rock clap the boat clap

Rock clap rock the oohah! ooh!

 

 And it would repeat with another camper

I forgot what goes there, but the blanks are syllables, and it rhymes with the 'ooh' sound"
-Liesl Lockheart, 2015, [example from a commenter in the discussion thread for "Do You Remember 90s Handgames?".] That YouTube video showed two young Black American women demonstrating hand clap games that they remember from their childhood, That well viewed video and its active comment section are no longer available. Part II of this video is also no longer available.

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BANG BANG CHOO CHOO TRAIN [Example #6]
"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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PEANUT BUTTER IN A CUP [Example #7]

ALL  Peanut butter in a cup we sing this song to pump us UP!

Bing Bang choo choo train, come on Bridgette do your thang…

BRIDGETTE: I can’t!

ALL:  Why not?

BRIDGETTE: I just can’t!

ALL:  Why not?

BRIDGETTE: My back’s aching, the sun’s too bright, my hips popping from left to right. To the left. To the right, to the left, To the right.

ALL: Left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right…

Peanut butter in a cup we sing this song to pump us UP! Bing Bang choo choo train, come on Lindsay do your thang…

LINDSAY: I can’t!

ALL:  Why not?

LINDSAY: I just can’t!

ALL:  Why not?

LINDSAY: My back’s aching, the sun’s too bright, my hips popping from left to right. To the left. To the right, to the left, To the right.

ALL: Left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right"...
- GoNoodle's "Peanut Butter In A Cup" Cheer, August 24, 2016 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPCGfa44bF0

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BANG BANG CHOO CHOO TRAIN (Cheer) [Example #8]

"--Informant Info--

Nationality: American

Age: 10

Occupation: Student

Residence: Beverly Hills, CA

Date of Performance/Collection: 4/24/16

(Acting out the whole thing, had to recall it)

Stop don’t talk to me loser lame-o wannabe

Like oh totally t-totally

Rainfall waterfall girl you think you got it all

But you don’t I do so boom with that attitude

Bang bang choo choo train wind me up

I’ll do that thing bang bang choo choo train

Wind me up I’ll do that thing.

Reeses Pieces butter cups you mess with me I’ll mess you up

Loser whatever get that picture. Word. (that’s what people say)

THE INFORMANT: Ruby is ten and says she learned this chant in 3rd grade. Everyone in her grade knows it but only the girls act it out because she says the boys are too embarrassed.

ANALYSIS: Some research on this chant, because I remember the “bang bang choo choo train” part but not the rest, has shown that this rhyme / cheer has been around in some form or another since as far back as 1902, with many variations along the timeline. It is often used as a cheer for young girls to perform as cheerleaders or dancers, and has historically been controversial because some versions of it use more sexualized language than parents think is appropriate for their children to perform to. However, the language used in Ruby’s version shows the large differences between the different versions of this cheer from school to school and over time, where only the “bang bang choo choo train” part is still intact"

- tokemper, .May 3, 2016, http://folklore.usc.edu/bang-bang-choo-choo-train-cheer/,  Folk speech, Game, Gestures, Humor, Kinesthetic, Musical 

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BRICK WALL WATER FALL  [Example #9]

"I learned brick wall water fall boys think they know it all they don't we do that do we do so hoom with yo attitude Reese's pieces butter cup you mess with me I'll mess you up bang bang chu chu train wind me up I'll do my thang why not I can why not I can cuz my back is aching and my bra too tight but my boy friend days that it fits just right my booty shaking from the left to the right my hands up high and my feet down low come on girls let show they how it goes............ me and my cousins were some crazy children........"
-Deandrea Seda, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSbCOuhek4E&ab_channel=tishaechappelle [comment]

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BRICK WALL WATER FALL  [Example #10]

"I learned thus as Brick wall, waterfall, hey girl you think you know it all. You don't. I do. So poor with the attitude. Bang bang choo choo train now let me see you shake that thing. I can't. Why not? I just can't. Why not? My back is aching and my bras too tight. My bootys shaking from the left to the right. From the left to the right."
-AngelIque B, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSbCOuhek4E&ab_channel=tishaechappelle [comment]

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BRICK WALL WATERFALL  [Example #11]

"Brick wall waterfall

Girl you think you got it all

But you don’t

I do

So Boom with that attitude

Peace punch captain crunch

I got something that you can’t touch

Bang bang choo choo train

Wind me up I’ll do my thang

Reece’s pieces 7up

Mess with me I’ll mess you up.

🌻Cheyenne 🌻"
-@cheyennee2016; Dec 4, 2018· https://twitter.com/cheyennee2016/status/1069829283277721600

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BANG BANG CHOO CHOO TRAIN (Cheerleader cheer)  [Example #12]

Ready Go!
Bang Bang Choo Choo Train
Come on Lasers Do your thing.
Shake it high. Shake it low
Turn around and strike a pose.
Okay,gym let's go!
-@eastsideyouthleaguecheerle6352 August 29, 2019 

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MY LEFT [Example #13]

My left my left my left right left
My left my left my left right left
My left my left my left right left
My back achin my belt too tight
My booty shaking from the left to the right
My?- My ? My-hoochie coochie ?
-https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2020/06/kids-explain-their-rhymes-games-and-songs/ "Kids Explain Their Rhymes, Games, and Songs" June 5, 2020,

Posted by: Stephanie Hall [sound file of Children's rhymes, games, and songs performed by Mrs. Currier's 4th grade class, Blue Ridge Elementary School, Ararat, Virginia, 1978; An African American girl shares this rhyme that she learned from her cousin Lavera who lives in New York]

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BANG BANG CHOO CHOO TRAIN (SOFTBALL CHEER) [Example #14]

Any softball players here would know the chant that goes “bang bang choo choo train call me over I’ll do my thang I know karate I know kung fu you mess with me I’ll mess you up!”
-@thaliamartinez8021, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Strt7NoDMJ0 Bang Bang Choo Choo Train Challenge Dance Compilation #bangbang #bangbangdance, One Challenge, Dec 28, 2021
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This twitter dance challenge compilation has a brief clip of the 1995 Hip Hop record "Giddy Up Let's Ride" by Kinsui. That sound clip includes the "Bang bang choo choo train/let me see you do your thing" words from that rhyme/ Also, the bridge of that 1995 record includes more words from that rhyme
"Go left, go right

Go left, right, left, right

My back is aching, my belt's too tight

My booty shakin' from left to right

Go left, go right

Go left, right, left, right

My back is aching, my belt's too tight

My booty shakin' from left to right"...
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Those words are directly from military cadences.

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REESE'S PIECES  [Example #15]

"It's:

Bang bang choo choo train, wind me up I do my thang.

I know karate, I know kung fu, you mess with me I mess with you.

Brick wall, waterfall, girl you think you know it all.

You don't, I do. So poof with the attitude.

But wait, come back. Cause girl you need a tic-tac.

Not one, not two, but the whole six pack."
-Kelly Jones answered, no publishing date given, https://entertainment.blurtit.com/1705724/what-are-the-words-to-bang-bang-choo-choo-train-cheer , retrieved January 6, 2022

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BANG BANG CHOO CHOO TRAIN [Example #16]

"A-B-C Hit It! That's the way Uh-Uhh I like it Uh-Uhh.

That's the way Uh-Uhh I like it Uh-Uhh. Brickwall Waterfall

Girl you think you know it all. You don't. I do. So Poof with the Attitude. Bang bang choo choo train watch me while I do my thang. Reese's pieces 7-up u mess with me I'll mess u up!"
-Anonymous answered; no publishing date given, https://entertainment.blurtit.com/1705724/what-are-the-words-to-bang-bang-choo-choo-train-cheer , retrieved January 6, 2022

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BANG BANG CHOO CHOO TRAIN [Example #17]

"Bang bang cho cho train wind me up and I'll do my thang no Reese peice no butter cup mess with me I'll mess you up I know karate I know Kung fu mess with me and I'll do it on my you"
-Wendy Morlock answered,  no publishing date given, https://entertainment.blurtit.com/1705724/what-are-the-words-to-bang-bang-choo-choo-train-cheer , retrieved January 6, 2022

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BANG BANG CHOO CHOO TRAIN [Example #18]

"The long way goes like this:

 Bang Bang Choo Choo Train

Let me see you do your thang

I can't

Why not

Because I can't

Why not

Because my back is aching and

My bra's too tight

My hips are shakin' from the left to the right

My mom's on fire; she's got a butt like mine

When she crosses the street, the cars go beep beep beep

When she gets down low she does the rodeo

When she gets up high she does the butterfly

Oh now I see why you can't

Bang Bang Choo Choo Train"
-Anonymous answered, no publishing date given, https://entertainment.blurtit.com/1705724/what-are-the-words-to-bang-bang-choo-choo-train-cheer , retrieved January 6, 2022

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BRICK WALL WATERFALL [Example #19]

[Three girls chant in unison] - Brick wall Waterfall
Michael thinks he got it all
But he don't and we do
So POOF with that attitude

[Michael]
Um, it's "BOOM with that attitude
Boom with that attitude.
Peace punch Captain Crunch.
I got something you can't touch
Oh oh bang bang choo choo train
Wind me up
I’ll do my thing
 No Reese's pieces 7 Up
You mess with me I'll mess you.
-MelissaKristinTV - DigitalMunchies, Mar 2, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5X69y9X9Cw Remember the #early2000s “Brick Wall Waterfall” diss chant? #nostalgia
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Here's the rest of the words to that video:
The Main girl speaks to her two girl friends who had moved over to Michael’s side:
"You’re supposed to be on my side."
Michael says to those two girls- “Let’s go home, Skillets".
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As of May 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM EST, this YouTube video has a total number of 31,480,261 views.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/01/brickwall-waterfall-examples-analysis.html  for the closely related pancocojams post entitled "Brick Wall Waterfall" (Examples & Analysis)

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ROCK THE BOAT (BANG BANG CHOO CHOO TRAIN) [Example #20] 

its actually now a softball cheer it goes like

my name is _ rock the boat im feeling fine rock the boat you mess with me rock the boat i blow your mind rock the boat im talking bang bang choo choo  train wind me up and i do my thing no reeses peices no captain crunch you mess with me i mess you up rock the boat dont tip it over if you do this game will be over
-@drawing3297, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5X69y9X9Cw Remember the #early2000s “Brick Wall Waterfall” diss chant? #nostalgia, published by MelissaKristinTV - DigitalMunchies, March 2, 2023

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BANG BANG CHOO CHOO TRAIN CHEER [Example #21] 

Bang, Bang Choo Choo Train
Come on Lions, do your Thang!
Get it…Get it…get it
Got it…got it… got it
Whoosh, and let it roll
-Laschandra Spraggins, Sep 6, 2023,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw4YrIbDhD8 Bang Choo Choo Train Cheer

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