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Thread #106157   Message #2190467
Posted By: Azizi
10-Nov-07 - 09:55 AM
Thread Name: Cheerleader Cheers
Subject: Cheerleader Cheers
This thread celebrates the creativity of cheerleader cheers. I consider cheerleader cheers to be a legitimate genre of folk rhymes. I'm aware that there have been Mudcat threads or comments within other threads about "football" cheers, but I've not found any previous Mudcat threads dedicated to "clean" examples of cheerleader threads. If there you know of any previous Mudcat threads or posts within other threads about this genre of rhymes, please feel free to add a link or links to those threads within this thread.

I'm particularly interested in examples of cheers that are associated with elementary, middle, and high schools sports affiliated cheerleading squads and with sports affiliated community cheerleader squads. However, you're welcome to post examples of cheers that you know from colleges/universities, and from professional sports teams.

For the purpose of folkloric research as well as to add information that may be of interest to this thread's readers, if you are posting examples to this thread, it would be great if you would include demographical information such as when & where you remember hearing or saying these cheers. By "when" I mean the year or decade that you first remember reciting or hearing these cheers. By "where" I mean the geographical place {city/state in the USA}where you first recited or heard these cheers. Outside the USA, I mean your city and nation. Including this demographical information helps to show the continuity and changes over time and within the same time that may have occurred with specific examples of cheers.

I'm also interested in folks including information about "how" they learned the example or examples that they post, particularly if these examples came from mass media sources. For instance, judging from the examples that have been submitted to my website on children's rhymes, Cocojams,
there are a number of cheerleader cheers that have become known throughout the world as a result of their inclusion in one of the Bring It On movies about high school cheerleading squads and other such movies and television shows.

I'll start the ball rolling by posting some examples of cheers that are included in one of the Bring It On movies. Please join in the spirit moves you to do so.

Thanks, in advance for sharing examples and comments on this thread.