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Thread #90526   Message #1716820
Posted By: Azizi
12-Apr-06 - 09:05 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: I Ain't Goin' Nowhere (parody)
Subject: RE: Add Lyr: I Ain't Goin' Nowhere
This may be just a coincidence, but there is a children's foot stomping chant called "You Aint Goin Nowhere".

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, Shadaya!
                Introduce yourself
Shadaya
(Soloist #1)        Too shy
Group                Introduce yourself
Shadaya                I'll try
                My name is Shadaya
                I cheer for Garfield.
                My sign is Libra.
                And when I'm up
Group                When she's up.
Shadaya                I'm hot stuff.
Group                She's hot stuff.
Shadaya                And when I'm down.
Group                And when she's down.
Shadaya         Don't mess around.
Group                Don't mess around
Shadaya                Don't make me scream
                cause you will be _knocked _out.

{continue the chant from the beginning with the next soloist who substitutes her name and her astrological sun sign; this continues until every member in the group as had one turn as the soloist}
-Source: Shadaya {African American girl, 10 years old;
Pittsburgh, PA; 2002; collected by Azizi Powell, 2002

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I have no idea what the source {if any} of this footstomping chant is. It's probably unlikely that it came from the "I Ain't Goin' Nowhere" song by Geoff Mack/Rick Moranis that is posted above.

Who knows. Maybe Mack/Moranis heard the foot stomping cheer and that gave them the idea for the song.