On Dec 8, 9:33=A0am, Meat Plow wrote:
>
> Put your left foot in,
> Your left foot out,
> Your left foot in,
> And shake it all about.
> You do the hokey pokey
> And turn yourself around.
>
> Now put your right foot in,
> Your right foot out,
> Right foot in
> Then you shake it all about.
> And then you do the Hokey Pokey
> Turn yourself around,
> That's what it's all about.
>
> You put your head in,
> You put your head out,
> Put your head in,
> And bang it all about.
> Do the Hokey Pokey
> And turn yourself around.
> That's what it's all about.
>
> Let's Do the Hokey Pokey!
> Let's Do the Hokey Pokey!
> Let's Do the Hokey Pokey!
> That's what it's all about.
Is this one of the songs you do a cover version of, Meat?
Interesting history to the Hokey Pokey song:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokey_Cokey
"...According to one account,[1] in 1940, during the Blitz in London,
a Canadian officer suggested to Al Tabor, a British bandleader of the
1920s, 1930s and 1940s that he write a party song with actions similar
to "Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree". The inspiration for the song's
title, "The Hokey Pokey", that resulted, came from an ice cream vendor
whom Al had heard as a boy, calling out "Hokey pokey penny a lump.
Have a lick make you jump". He changed the name to "The Hokey Cokey"
at the suggestion of the officer who said that 'hokey cokey', in
Canada, meant 'crazy' and would sound better. A well known lyricist/
songwriter/music publisher of the time, Jimmy Kennedy, reneged on a
financial agreement to promote and publish it, and finally Al settled
out of court, giving up all rights to the number. There had been many
theories and conjectures about the meaning of the words "Hokey Pokey",
and of their origin. Some scholars[citation needed] attributed the
origin to the Shaker song Hinkum-Booby which had similar lyrics and
was published in Edward Deming Andrews' A gift to be simple in 1960:
(p. 42) .
" A song rendered ("with appropriate gestures") by two Canterbury
sisters while on a visit to Bridgewater, N.H. in 1857 starts thus:
I put my right hand in,
I put my right hand out,
I give my right hand a shake, shake shake
And I turn myself about.
As the song continues, the "left hand" is put in, then the "right
foot," then the "left foot," then "my whole head."
...Newell gave it the title, "Right Elbow In," and said that is was
danced " deliberately and decorously...with slow rhythmical motion."
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New poetry & music recordings by Will Dockery
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