The Hokey Pokey

Written By: Roland Lawrence LaPrise, concocted the song along with two fellow musicians in the late 1940s for the ski crowd in Sun Valley, Idaho. The group, the Ram Trio, recorded the song in 1949. In 1953, bandleader Ray Anthony bought the rights and recorded The Hokey Pokey on the B-side of another novelty record, The Bunny Hop. After the Ram Trio disbanded in the 1960s, country star Roy Acuff's publishing company bought the rights to The Hokey Pokey. Copyright 1950, Acuff-Rose Music Inc.

You put your right foot in, aou put your right foot out;
You put your right foot in, and you shake it all about.
You do the Hokey-Pokey, and you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about!
 
You put your left foot in...
 
You put your right hand in...
 
You put your left hand in...
 
You put your right side in...
 
You put your left side in...
 
You put your nose in...
 
You put your backside in...
 
You put your head in...
 
You put your whole self in...