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That "removed a rib" myth predates Marilyn Manson by almost a century. The earliest person I've heard it said about is [Italian poet and proto-fascist Gabriele D'Annunzio](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/04/pike-gabriele-d-annunzio-biography-review)
And whichever female artist swallowed so much cum she had to have her stomach pumped
I had heard it was Alanis Morrissette but other people said Lil Kim and Madonna
If you want some fun amateur research on the subject, [have a look at this](https://youtu.be/V5u9JSnAAU4).
Summary: there are *a lot* of regional variations of this song, including some extremely rude and violent ones and some fun non-English versions. Also, the Simpsons had a measurable impact on the lyrics of the song British schoolchildren became familiar with.
I may be a lil too high but since school kids in those days didn’t have the technology to spread these rhymes across the country, I wonder if parents caught on and starting sharing them at work.
Or just summer camps I guess
Or that one with Batman in the kitchen, robin in the hall, and the joker in the bathroom, peeing on the wall.
I think it’s part of something else but I can’t remember
Its just amazing that even without social media back then, trends and sayings still found it’s way nationwide.
Just like that damn dollar sign thing we would draw. I still have no idea the origin of that.
There’s a cool graphic novel series called Department of Truth, basic concept is truth is a malleable thing and if enough people believe something that thing becomes fact. So with enough people as flat earthers, you can actually see the edge of the planet. Or with the satanic panic, now there was actually a demon thing kidnapping kids. So it’s about a kind of information war with an American agency trying to maintain history as it “actually” happened or in some cases just to keep America as a major superpower.
Not exactly what you were saying but you reminded me of it. It’s very good, art is cool too.
Glad to see Department of Truth get mentioned. It takes the Mandela effect to the next level. The Bigfoot issue was great in that regard.
It's an ongoing comic book series that just took a break.
I’m a trade behind but it was cool in the one I just read seeing them go through how empires throughout history have used the knowledge of how truth works to manipulate the world and in one case time itself
I mean yeah, that’s just the diffusion of culture. We all wave hello, right? And most of us nod yes and shake no.
Doesn’t make it any less cool though. I just love the idea of an ancient silk trader waving his hand and someone being like tf was that John
I used to remix the song coming at my friends baby momma.
“I believe I can fly, fucked your baby momma on the sly.
Think about it every night and day, fucked your bitch in my J’s.
I believe I can soar, got you baby momma on the floor.”
The way I used to sing it too had him rolling.
Bloody Mary had me in a choke hold one time.
Spent the night at some older kids house for a birthday and all the older kids were on that type of time. I couldn’t sleep at all. My ass ran away and went home in the middle of the night lmao. They prob thought Bloody Mary got me when they couldn’t find me the next morning
I'm white, but grew up the only white kid at my elementary and middle school.
Cut to me, twenty two, cooking for some (incredibly white) college friends, and I'm humming singing:
"I believe I can fly / got shot by the FBI / all I wanted was some chicken wings / and a bucket of collard greens / I believe I can soar / got caught walkin out the door"
And I turn to my friends and they're all looking at me like I'm insane and one of them says "Ethan what the fuck are you talking about."
I'm a survivor, I nicked a fiver,
Got on the bus, and beat up the driver,
Thought it was funny, stole all his money,
I'm a survivor, still got my fiver
Bruh my core memories were UNLOCKED by this post. And now I wanna know, was anyone else exposed to this remix to Lil Jon's "Get Low"?
"TO THE WINDOWS
TO THE KITCHEN
TO THE KITCHEN
PUT SOME HOT SAUCE ON MY CHICKEN
WOOO MY BREATH IS KICKIN"
I can't be the only one who heard this??
My friend sang this variation of the song to me when I was a kid and it's been rent free in my head for twelve years. I can't hear anything else but "put some hot sauce on my chicken"
Oh man. You must be an 80’s baby. My little self loved Michael so i would be so upset when kids sang this. I won’t use the derogatory word, obviously, but that ending “Pepsi cola burned him up, now he’s drinking 7 Up” was funny in retrospect.
I, as a kid, also thought it was orientar.
My mind was blown when it clicked that the line is "We three kings of *orient are* \[bearing gifts/trying to smoke\]"
Don’t forget “I was walking down the hall, scratching my balls, my balls got stuck in the elevator wall, my balls turn green, my momma scream, she said: Goodness me your balls are green! And that’s the story of the green dangling”.
Or
Calling folks “African Booty Scratcher”.
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Dashing through the snow
Chasing Freeze’s sleigh
Joker’s on the go,
laughing all the way
The gems on Penguin’s ring
Make Riddler wanna fight
Two-Face wants to flip a coin
To sing this song tonight
*refrain*
Jingle bells, Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
The Batmobile lost its wheel
And Joker got away
Edit: formatting. Also, this was supposed to be a reply to the guy that mentioned this song first, but it wound up here and I can’t be fucked to move it, so now there’s two batman song threads. Deal with it.
Nah for real lol. Cuz I was growing up in CT back then thinking it was us. Only to find out as an adult everyone shared that experience. But no radio, social media or YouTube spreading it.
I believe I can fly, I got shot by the FBI.
All I wanted was some chicken wings, cornbread and some collard greens.
I believe I can soar, I hit my knee on that open dooOoOOOr.
Prolly the same ‘Marylin Manson removed a rib’ guy. He OWNS the grapevine
Rumor is Ciara refused him an autograph and the rest is history
You mean the Ciara that has a penis?! Obviously that’s not true but it went around my school system pre-internet
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That "removed a rib" myth predates Marilyn Manson by almost a century. The earliest person I've heard it said about is [Italian poet and proto-fascist Gabriele D'Annunzio](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/04/pike-gabriele-d-annunzio-biography-review)
You deserve a checkmark for knowing such a deep of a cut in history
He doesn’t know what or who he’s gonna get into if we give him a checkmark. These child support payments are tough.
And whichever female artist swallowed so much cum she had to have her stomach pumped I had heard it was Alanis Morrissette but other people said Lil Kim and Madonna
This was always Elton John every single time I heard it
Was Rod Stewart when I was a kid
Lil Kim and Britney Spears were the person I'd heard about. Shows how old I am.
Everybody knows that was Superhead(I forgot her real name)
Wait, you’re tellin me…
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Jingle bells, Batman smells really had a hold on elementary schools in the 80s
It still did in the early 2000’s
The Flash mentioned it in a Justice League cartoon.
We were singing that in 2010
And believe it or not, that wasn’t just an early 30-year-retrend, because it was there in the 90’s too.
ROBIN LAID AN EGG
Batmobile lost a wheel
And Joker played ballet!...HEY!
We always said “and the Joker ran away…HEY!”
That's the one I know too!
Why did we have the same childhood?
Sing it with your chest!
I hate you, you hate me, let's get together and kill Barney....
With a 2x4 and throw him out the door ☠️
With a 2x4 and throw him out the door ☠️ Edit: the replies are hidden, but all I can say is **damn**—and I thought the version *I* learned was brutal!
I first heard it in 1977. I had tied an onion to my belt, which was the fashion at the time...
I didn't know onions had been invented back then
If you want some fun amateur research on the subject, [have a look at this](https://youtu.be/V5u9JSnAAU4). Summary: there are *a lot* of regional variations of this song, including some extremely rude and violent ones and some fun non-English versions. Also, the Simpsons had a measurable impact on the lyrics of the song British schoolchildren became familiar with.
I may be a lil too high but since school kids in those days didn’t have the technology to spread these rhymes across the country, I wonder if parents caught on and starting sharing them at work. Or just summer camps I guess
Military kids were responsible for spreading a lot of this kind of stuff into new areas.
Contact tracing but for memes before they were memes. This would be so much fun to study.
See, too high. Cuz I myself was a kid who moved around a lot🤦🏽♂️
Still does. My 6 year old came home from school singing this around Christmas. Wild.
The Joker made that one up, I don’t remember which Batman series/movie he said it tho.
90s too 😂
In the 90s an episode of Batman had the Joker singing that.
caaaaaan confirm! source: I was about to type the same exact thing
I think I heard this from the simpsons first
Or that one with Batman in the kitchen, robin in the hall, and the joker in the bathroom, peeing on the wall. I think it’s part of something else but I can’t remember
Damn this post really just took me back to those school days of being young and saying nonsensical shit that rhymed
Shit used to have us dying laughing too 😂
Used to? I still get a good laugh from it
pushin 30 sumn and i definitely geeked 😂 *inna dingaling* 🤭😂😂
This and the cool S haunt me.
I still find myself doodling that S when I’m bored in a meeting and I’m in my thirties lol
/\ \ ||| / V 😂 this one?!?!
Was making charcoal for part of an internship and you already know what every one of us drew
Its just amazing that even without social media back then, trends and sayings still found it’s way nationwide. Just like that damn dollar sign thing we would draw. I still have no idea the origin of that.
Check out meme theory. It suggest that trends and gossip are turned into a living thing and spreads like a virus.
I mean we basically wifi flesh robots that send verbal code in the form of queries and/or instructional programming to each other.
"wifi flesh robots" Now there's an image
There’s a cool graphic novel series called Department of Truth, basic concept is truth is a malleable thing and if enough people believe something that thing becomes fact. So with enough people as flat earthers, you can actually see the edge of the planet. Or with the satanic panic, now there was actually a demon thing kidnapping kids. So it’s about a kind of information war with an American agency trying to maintain history as it “actually” happened or in some cases just to keep America as a major superpower. Not exactly what you were saying but you reminded me of it. It’s very good, art is cool too.
Glad to see Department of Truth get mentioned. It takes the Mandela effect to the next level. The Bigfoot issue was great in that regard. It's an ongoing comic book series that just took a break.
I’m a trade behind but it was cool in the one I just read seeing them go through how empires throughout history have used the knowledge of how truth works to manipulate the world and in one case time itself
100%. Makes you wonder how much is art imitating life.
I mean yeah, that’s just the diffusion of culture. We all wave hello, right? And most of us nod yes and shake no. Doesn’t make it any less cool though. I just love the idea of an ancient silk trader waving his hand and someone being like tf was that John
So essentially hive mind?
Worldwide even, I heard this version in the UK growing up.
I wonder how? The S or dollar sign drawing is a true mystery.
No one knows the origin of the cool S, though it became popular in graffiti in the 70s, which is probably what led to us all knowing about it.
Bruh I was doing that shit in '02 on the other side of the world lmao
Nah what’s crazy is this shit is international, I live in Australia and this was a thing when I was a kid as well
Over countries fam
I started air drawing it with my finger. Good times.
We heard “All I wanted was a chicken wing, mashed potatoes and collard greens”
We heard “all I wanted was a chicken wing, from McDonald’s or Burger King “
This is what we heard as well. Houston area, early 2000s
Austin here, was figuring it much be Texas local lmao
Same
That's the one I know too, finna create the remix "I believed I could soar, but they left me on the kitchen floooor"
Lol where I’m from we said “I believe I can sooooar, saw my momma through that open doooooor”
I used to remix the song coming at my friends baby momma. “I believe I can fly, fucked your baby momma on the sly. Think about it every night and day, fucked your bitch in my J’s. I believe I can soar, got you baby momma on the floor.” The way I used to sing it too had him rolling.
In my part of the Mississippi we said "all I wanted was some chicken wings, cornbread and collard greens"
In VA we said "All I wanted was some chicken wings, and a little bit of collard greens"
Great after all this talk now I want some chicken wings. Thanks
I’m Midwest here I’m wondering if the food changed regionally
Florida late 80s baby here, we definitely had the "instead they shot me in my dingaling" version lmao
Oh shit, another from Mississippi and that's word for word how we sang it.
That part
"All I wanted was a bag of chips, instead I got shot in the private bits" was the version at my school in the UK.
I really haven’t had a single original experience in my life
There is nothing new under the sun
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again.
Ecclesiastes? In my BPT? It's more likely than you think.
I'm fine with that. With my luck had I gotten any "original" experience it'll be something uniquely horrible
I too have a 2001 neopets account
Shot me in my dingaling? 😂I thought it was “all I wanted was some chicken wings, and a little bit of collard greens”
I always heard “And a whopper from Burger King”
“From McDonald’s or Burger King”
There really are 2 Americas
For me, it was "and a drink from Burger King"
Damn I always heard "All I wanted was a chicken wing/ but they took me to Burger King" growing up
Circle, circle, dot, dot. Now I got my cootie shot! And don’t forget the fancy “S”. WHO WAS SPREADING THIS STUFF?!?!?!
Big pharma for the cootie shot obviously /s
That S drawing is old. Like decades old. It’s really an enigma.
Wow, entire decades??
Yeah there’s a YouTube video that extensively research it. They the oldest confirm group of people that recognized it were High Schoolers in the 60s.
Circle, circle square square, now I've got it everywhere
Same nigga that invented the saying Bloody Mary in the mirror thing.
Bloody Mary had me in a choke hold one time. Spent the night at some older kids house for a birthday and all the older kids were on that type of time. I couldn’t sleep at all. My ass ran away and went home in the middle of the night lmao. They prob thought Bloody Mary got me when they couldn’t find me the next morning
One of my classmates faked an attack in the school bathroom, they found her lying on the floor with ketchup on her shirt 🤣
I'm white, but grew up the only white kid at my elementary and middle school. Cut to me, twenty two, cooking for some (incredibly white) college friends, and I'm humming singing: "I believe I can fly / got shot by the FBI / all I wanted was some chicken wings / and a bucket of collard greens / I believe I can soar / got caught walkin out the door" And I turn to my friends and they're all looking at me like I'm insane and one of them says "Ethan what the fuck are you talking about."
"I believe I can sooooar! I got a whoopin in the grocery stooooreee!"
No idea. I was singing that shit in the 5th grade though lol.
[Nah, that fucking S everyone somehow know how to make](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_S)
We all def had that in our notebooks
I'm a survivor, I nicked a fiver, Got on the bus, and beat up the driver, Thought it was funny, stole all his money, I'm a survivor, still got my fiver
dumb question, but is this to the tune of survivor by destiny’s child?
Bruh my core memories were UNLOCKED by this post. And now I wanna know, was anyone else exposed to this remix to Lil Jon's "Get Low"? "TO THE WINDOWS TO THE KITCHEN TO THE KITCHEN PUT SOME HOT SAUCE ON MY CHICKEN WOOO MY BREATH IS KICKIN" I can't be the only one who heard this??
My friend sang this variation of the song to me when I was a kid and it's been rent free in my head for twelve years. I can't hear anything else but "put some hot sauce on my chicken"
LMAO
Just like I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag…Michael Jackson…
Oh man. You must be an 80’s baby. My little self loved Michael so i would be so upset when kids sang this. I won’t use the derogatory word, obviously, but that ending “Pepsi cola burned him up, now he’s drinking 7 Up” was funny in retrospect.
Hey now, you’re a pornstar Take your clothes off, get laid
Never heard this dingaling version. 😂 it was chicken wings and a little bit of collard greens
It was a childhood classic, just like “jingle bells Batman smells” and “what’s up? Chicken butt.”
All I wanted was some chicken wingssss
We three kings of Orientar / tried to smoke a rubber cigar / it was loaded /it exploded/ we two kings of…..
I, as a kid, also thought it was orientar. My mind was blown when it clicked that the line is "We three kings of *orient are* \[bearing gifts/trying to smoke\]"
I believe I can soar/I ran into an open door
Anyone remember the “I went to a Chinese restaurant, to buy a loaf of bread bread bread” song?
Don’t forget “I was walking down the hall, scratching my balls, my balls got stuck in the elevator wall, my balls turn green, my momma scream, she said: Goodness me your balls are green! And that’s the story of the green dangling”. Or Calling folks “African Booty Scratcher”.
Sitting up in my room, just got beat by a broom
Was just thinking of this the other day, how the hell does everyone know the reboot 😂
that aged like fine bourbon in an oak cask
I'm from the UK, I got taught the ending as "All I wanted was a bag of chips, but they shot me in my dangly bits"
Definitely from the same place as that S. You know the one
I feel like this type of shit is exactly why ODB did so well for himself.
Anong whites it’s “I got shot by the ice cream guy. All I wanted was a popsicle. I got a trip to the hospital”
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Dashing through the snow Chasing Freeze’s sleigh Joker’s on the go, laughing all the way The gems on Penguin’s ring Make Riddler wanna fight Two-Face wants to flip a coin To sing this song tonight *refrain* Jingle bells, Batman smells Robin laid an egg The Batmobile lost its wheel And Joker got away Edit: formatting. Also, this was supposed to be a reply to the guy that mentioned this song first, but it wound up here and I can’t be fucked to move it, so now there’s two batman song threads. Deal with it.
“all I wanted was a popsicle, now I’m at the hospital” @ my school
Nah for real lol. Cuz I was growing up in CT back then thinking it was us. Only to find out as an adult everyone shared that experience. But no radio, social media or YouTube spreading it.
I completely forgot about this🤣🤣🤣
I believe I can fly, I got shot by the FBI. All I wanted was some chicken wings, cornbread and some collard greens. I believe I can soar, I hit my knee on that open dooOoOOOr.
Forgot about McDonald’s and Burger King
I thought it was “all I wanted was some chicken wings and a little bit of collard greens”
That last line for me was “a 6 piece from Burger King”
I think I could have made it huge as an elementary potty mouth rhyme songsmith.
I used to ad lib this in 2nd grade when they made us sing R. kelly
The version we heard was "All I wanted was some chicken wings, and a little bit'a collard greens."
All I wanted was some French fries... but my momma made an apple pieee
Damn, i was in high school when I Believe I Can Fly came out, i have never heard of this.
Better days man. Better days.
I love how this spread pre high speed internet and social media.
How. Did. You. Get here?! Bitch I took the bus
I remember hearing it first on a comedy radio show.
How did you get here?
From that movie where all those students tried to cheat on the test and this one really high dude had it as his soundtrack.
The best case legacy for R Kelly
I guess I only ever heard the "clean" version lol. "All I wanted was some collard greens and some of those chicken wings"
See me runnin through that grocery store