What I know very little about music theory and structure, and wondering if someone here can weigh in on this question:

Is any connection between this children's taunt tune and African American field hollers {USA Southern slavery}.

I've found the Internet offerings on field hollers to be very disappointing. I've found one or two line statements that say that these field hollers pre-date the blues, but little else.

Were these hollers tonal utterings and [usually] not words? Maybe that's why there are so few examples cited.

However, I don't get the sense that the children's taunt is call & response, and I seem to remember reading that one field holler would evoke a responding field holler from another person so maybe they were a form of call & response.

Also, is there a connection between this children's taunt and tonal language? And if so, what is the taunt saying {"That's what you get?" or "It serves you right?" or something else, but what else?

BTW, the taunt that I remember doing and still hear African American children say is more like "Nah nah nahnahnah."

I've never added or heard anyone else {African American} add a "boo" at the end of this taunt. Of course, this doesn't mean that there are no African Americans who add "boo" to Nah nah nahnahnah {or however it is said}. What it means is that no Black kids I know or heard have done it. I'm referring here to African American children living in all or predominately Black neighborhoods.

I'd be interested in knowing if anyone else posting here has noted any racial differences in the way this taunt is spoken.