You Shake it All About.

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You put your left leg in

Your left leg out

In, out, in, out,

you shake it all about.

You do the Hokey Cokey and you turn around

That's what it's all about...

Wikipedia tells us:-

“The Hokey Cokey, Okey Cokey, Hokey Pokey, Hokey Tokey, or Cokey Cokey is a participation dance with a distinctive accompanying tune and lyric structure. It is well known in English-speaking countries. It is of unclear origin, with two main traditions having evolved in different parts of the world.”

The Hokey Cokey, as I have always called it, peaked in popularity as a music hall song and novelty dance in the mid-1940s in Britain and Ireland.

According to one account, 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".

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You had to wave your arms around as per the instructions on the back.

The inspiration for the song's title, "The Hokey Cokey", 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.

There is a claim of authorship by the British/Irish songwriter Jimmy Kennedy, responsible for the lyrics to popular songs such as the wartime “We're Going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line”

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and the children's song “Teddy Bears' Picnic.”

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Music by John Bratton & Lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy.

I don't have the sheet music for the Hokey Cokey (only in a book).

Sheet music copyrighted in 1942 and published by Campbell Connelly & Co Ltd, agents for Kennedy Music Co Ltd, styles the song as "the Cokey Cokey".

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