If y'all will forgive my continuing the musical tangent:
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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman
NOOOOOOOOO time for LOOOOOOOOOO-sers
NAAAAAA-na naaa-naa BOOOOOOOOOO-booo *sticks thumbs in ears, sticks out tongue, wiggles fingers*
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Okay, I recognize what you're talking about now. I've always heard it as "nyah nyah-nyah nyah nyah!" Yes, the notes are similar, but not the same, and I think it's a stretch to consider the similarity intentional. The chant's
G E-A G C doesn't sound to me like the song's
G D#-G# G D#. The next line in the song
does have the same pattern of notes as the finger-wiggling chant, though -- and it's the title line "We are the champions."
Or maybe the "nanny nanny boo boo" chant is a recent variant of the one I know, using different notes as well as the different syllables, and it
is an intentional musical allusion, but as the song was composed before the students posting here were born, I suspect it's just in the ear of the listener.