CHILDREN'S RHYMES & CHEERS

Cocojams.com features twelve pages of selected English language children's rhymes/cheers. These examples are provided for their aesthetic, folkloric, sociological, and historical value.

Examples are placed in alphabetical order under one performance category. A video or videos of the rhyme or of related subjects may be embedded under the text example of the rhyme/cheer. Comments about the rhyme's words and performance instructions may also be provided with selected examples.

I'm interested in how rhymes/cheers change over time and/or how rhymes/cheers may be recited differently and performed differently by different populations (sometimes within the same time period, and even in the same city). For these reasons. Cocojams.com provides multiple examples of rhymes. . Therefore, these examples are provided "as is" ,with no attempts to change the spelling or grammar of these examples into "mainstream" English.

Sources of Examples

Some examples of rhymes/cheers that are featured on this site shared on Cocojams.com are from my childhood memories. Others are from my direct collection, particularly among African American children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (from 1970s-2010).

A large number of the rhymes featured on Cocojams' Childrens Rhymes & Cheers pages are from this site's visitors.

Other examples of rhymes/cheers that are found on Cocojams.com are from members (including me) and guests of http://mudcat.org/ . Selected rhyme examples may also come from other websites, books, and records. Attribution including hyperlink is always given to any website from which an example is copied.

My thanks to all those who have sent in examples of rhymes & cheers. My thanks also to all those whose examples are featured on this site from other sources.

Contact Information
Please send examples you know to cocojams17@yahoo.com for possible addition to these pages. All examples sent to this site may be used in other Cocojams websites or publications. Cocojams is a family friendly site. I reserve the right not to post any example that I believe does not meet the standards of this website.

Many of these examples are from African Americans. However, I welcomes family friendly examples without regard to race, ethnicity, or nationality.

Because of my interest in folklore, I encourage persons sending in examples to include information about the category and performance instruction of the example. I also encourage persons sending in examples to include as much demographical information as possible (such as age/s and gender/s of persons reciting the rhyme or cheer, geographical location [such as city/state if within the USA, or city/nation if outside of the USA , date you first heard or learned the example [such as 1980], and races/ethnicity of the persons performing the rhyme [with "ethnicity" meaning Latino/Hispanic in the USA].

Listing of Cocojams' Children's Rhymes & Cheers pages (as of December 1, 2011)

Children's Ball Bouncing Rhymes

Children's Camp Songs

Children's Cheerleader Cheers

Children's Game Songs And Movement Rhymes

Children's Parodies

Choosing It Rhymes

Foot Stomping Cheers

Gross Out Rhymes

Handclap, Jump Rope, and Elastics Rhymes

Handclap, Jump Rope, and Elastics Rhymes #2

Schoolyard Taunts

Teacher Taunts

To read the content found on those pages, click the title on the right hand side of this page.

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Do you know any other English language children's singing games? Share them with other Cocojams readers!

Please send in examples of & comments about children's rhymes & cheers to cocojams17@yahoo.com

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Please be aware that by sharing your examples or comments with me, you are giving me permission to include it in a book or in any other off-line publication.

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