Videos & Text Only Examples Of The Children's Singing Game/Cheer"Jump In Jump Out" (also known as "Jump In Jump Out Introduce Yourself")

Juz rhyme, 2020
"Man you stole this from Gullah Gullah Island, shame on you!"

**
Reply
2. Shawn Harrington, 2021
"Except he changed the end."
-snip-
The Gullah Gullah Island version of "Jump In Jump Out that is embedded in this pancocojams post has the ending "everyday of my life". Incidentally, that is very similar to the ending for Jump In Jump Out" that I documented in the mid 1980s. However, "alright, alright, alright" is the ending that is used in the example that is being discussed in that discussion thread.  

**
Reply
3. katie b, 2021
"Who cares? Lol"

**
4. Juz rhyme, 2021
"@katie b  I do that is a song from our child hood fore fathers!!!"

**
Reply
5. tanya givens, 2022
"I did this as a kid way before Gullah Gullah Island even existed in the 80's."

****
SHOWCASE VIDEO # 2:  Jump In Jump Out

"Jump In
Jump Out
Turn yourself around
Jump In
Jump Out
Introduce yourself!"
-snip-
The soloist part ends with the words
"I want to be a ___ for the rest of my life.
[and the rest of the group echoes]  "For the rest of  her [his] life."
-snip-
Here's information about Camp Sizanani from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Sizanani
"Camp Sizanani was founded as a joint venture between Global Camps Africa, a non-profit headquartered in Reston, Virginia, and HIVSA, a South African foundation that provides care and services to HIV-affected individuals. Operating in the Magaliesburg area in North West Province, South Africa, Camp Sizanani offers multiple camp sessions throughout the year for children aged twelve through nineteen whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS. The term HIV-affected can imply that an individual is infected with the virus, but it can also mean that the infection of family members or guardians have impacted the individual's life. While some children at Camp Sizanani are HIV+, many more have been orphaned by a parent's AIDS-related death or have family members coping with the disease. Nearly all of Sizanani's campers come from Soweto, Johannesburg's enormous township, to which many black Africans were relegated during South Africa's apartheid era. The children attend the camp free of charge; they are sponsored by Global Camps Africa and its donors.

Goals

Sizanani takes its name from a Zulu word which translates idiomatically to mean "help each other". It is largely modeled on the North American summer camp tradition"...

****
SHOWCASE VIDEO #3

4th and 6th grade classes demonstrate how to play "Jump In, Jump Out," which is a fun name game/ice breaker activity for back-to-school. (Blur effect added to help protect the identity of students.)
-snip-
Children stand forming a circle. The children take turns being the "soloist". The soloist stands in the middle and says his (her) name and what he (she) likes to do [or what he (she) likes]. This version ends with the words "alright, alright, alright". 
The ending that is used in this versionof this so

****
SHOWCASE VIDEO #4: Jump In Jump Out

Traci Patterson, Aug 23, 2018 
-snip-
Parts of this chant is accompanied by an adult playing the West African djembe drum. 

****
SHOWCASE VIDEO #5: Jump In Jump Out

Rose Hill Junior Cheer, May 23, 2022
-snip-

Here are the words to this version of "Jump In Jump Out":

both girls:
Jump in Jump out 
Introduce yourself

soloist #1
My name is __
second girl- Yeah 
I cheer for the rockets
second girl- Yeah
When people see me
They go
[both girls chant]
ah Pump pump
ah Fist fist
ah Whoot! there it is
-snip-
Repeat the cheer with the second cheerleader as the soloist.
-snip-
"Whoomp!  (There it is)" is the title of a 1993 Hip Hop/R&B song by Tag Team.  A similar song, "Whoot, There It Is", was released by the Miami-based group 95 South a month prior to Tag Team's "Whoomp!"
Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoomp!_(There_It_Is) for information about those songs.
-snip-
I've seen other YouTube videos of cheerleaders chanting versions of "Jump In Jump Out", but this is the first time that I've come across that ending for that song/cheer. 

****
TEXT ONLY EXAMPLES OF "JUMP IN JUMP OUT" 

JUMP IN JUMP OUT (Version #1)
All: Jump in, Jump out.
And turn yourself about.
Jump in, Jump out.
And turn yourself about.
Soloist #1: My name is Kadiyah.
Group (except soloist): Yeah.
Soloist #1: I like to dance, dance.
I want to be a dancer all the rest of my life.
Group: All the rest of her life.
All: Jump in, Jump out.
And turn yourself about.
Jump in, Jump out.
And turn yourself about.
Soloist #1: My name is Michaela.
Group: Yeah.
Soloist #1: I like to cheer, cheer.
I want to be a cheerleader for the rest of my life.
Group: For the rest of her life.

Repeat the cheer from the beginning with the next soloist and continue until every member of the group has had one turn as soloist.
-Tazi M. Powell (African American female}, memories of mid 1980’s Pittsburgh, PA.; transcribed from cassette tape by Azizi Powell, 1996

****

JUMP IN JUMP OUT (Version #2)
I remember this from a show i watched:

jump in jump out turn yourself around. jump in jump out
introduce yourself my name is keisysha. what. i'm nine
huh. and i'm so fine everyday of my life. everyday of her life.

and you go on until everyone gets a turn. and don't forget to rhyme.
have fun. but i wish i new more but i'm only 12. bye and keep sending chants.
-db, 3/08/2006, cocojams.com
-snip-
cocojams.com is the name of my no longer active cultural website. A large number of children, pre-teens, and teenagers contributed examples of rhymes, cheers, and singing games to that site on an easy to use internal page that didn't need an email adress. A note on that page encouraged contributors to include their first name only, their age, the city/state where they lived, along with other demographic information, and how the rhyme/chant etc was played. However, most of the contributors just shared their name and the words to the example that they were sharing. 

****
JUMP IN JUMP OUT (Version #3)
Jump in jump out introduce yo self (2x) my name is
Shakyra (yea) i go to school (yea) im not the teacher
(yea) i kno the rules (yea kno them rules)

keep on doing it to everybody had a turn
-Shakyra P; 5/8/2007, cocojams.com

****
JUMP IN JUMP OUT (Version #4)
ALL: jump in jump out turn yo self around jump in jump
out introduce yo self..... 1 PERSON: my name (insert
girls name) ALL: yeah 1 PERSON: i like to (say what u
like to do) ALL: yeah 1 PERSON: and im gone (what
ever you like to do) ALL: yeah 1 PERSON: for the rest
of my life ALL: for the rest of her life (go again with a
different person)
-Shay; 5/14/2007, cocojams.com

****
JUMP IN JUMP OUT (Version #5)
I remember all of those, and now my daughter is bringing them home. Of course, she thinks that her compatriots invented them and that I'm the one with the messed up words - but she's wrong.

She taught me a new one (new to me at least) - not really a clapping game, but this thread reminded me of it...The kids play this and insert their names and a little something about themselves...

Everyone:

Jump in (clap clap)
Jump out (clap clap)
In-troduce yourself (clap clap)

(clapping continues)

Person who jumped in and out:

My name is Stephanie (yeah)
And I'm a drama queen (uh-huh)
I like to sing (yeah)
And I like chocolate cake (uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh).

It can get pretty amusing to see what the kids have to say about themselves.
- Icon 01, 13 February, 2003, http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=95;t=000442;p=1, "Skipping and clapping rhymes" [This link is no longer active.]

****
Thanks for visiting pancocojams.

Visitor comments are welcome.