The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #100061   Message #2008346
Posted By: Azizi
27-Mar-07 - 08:02 AM
Thread Name: Water Wallflower & Brickwall Waterfall
Subject: RE: Water Wallflower & Brickwall Waterfall
Thanks,Random Person 2007 {eRiCa} for sharing that example!

Would you please also post what performance activity you did {do?} with this example such as doing partner handclaps, doing foot stomps, and/or doing cheerleader cheers?

Also, when did you first heard or learned this cheer ?
{what year or decade such as 2006, or "late 1990s}?

And what city, state, nation did you live in when you first heard or learned this cheer?

Having demographical information about specific rhymes helps document possible source materials for those particular rhymes.
For instance, I wonder did the Dickie Roberts, Former Child Star movie screen writers * come up with this rhyme by themselves? Or did they get it from some kids in a particular city? And, if so, where did the kids get that rhyme from?

Having demographical information from a number of people will also help document whether there are distinctive versions in specific communities and populations and whether or how the rhyme's words and/or performance activity has changed in period of time.

* Btw, I've also been told that this rhyme {or the Bang Bang Choo Choo Train verse} is also recited in either the first or the second Bring It Home cheerleader movies. I saw both of these, but have to see them again to check that out.

I'm wondering if you or anyone else reading this remembers these cheers {or are they handclap rhymes? maybe they're both} from those movies.

Best wishes,

Ms. Azizi