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Everyone knows the routine -- you put your right hand in, you put your right hand out, and so on. Pretty darn innocuous, right? Well, it seems that in England, a lot of people have gotten upset about the 50's dance craze because they believe some people use the dance to mock Catholics. It has even gotten to the point where a Scottish politician called for police action against those who danced the hokey pokey at football matches.Now, however, the son of the song's author has come forward with the real story behind the song. Jimmy Kennedy Jr. offered his father's tale of how the song came about. It seems that, in 1942, he attended a rather boisterous party with a group of Canadian soldiers. "They were having a hilarious time," wrote the elder Kennedy, "singing and playing games, one of which they said was a Canadian children's game called The Cokey Cokey. I thought to myself, wouldn't that be fun as a dance to cheer people up! So when I got back to my hotel, I wrote a chorus based on the feet and hand movements the Canadians had used, with a few adaptations."
As for the title, well, it turns out that's a reference to the "drugs taken by the miners in Canada to cheer themselves up in the harsh environment where they were prospecting." And that, folks, is what it's all about.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
1-23-2009 @ 8:42PM
Uly said...In, out, in, out, in, out and that's what it's all about? I thought it was all about sex, frankly!
I keep thinking it has to be related to the older song "Here We Go Looby Loo", more seriously.
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1-24-2009 @ 2:06PM
Joy said...In all my life, 51 years, I have never once thought this song was anything but a fun child's game/dance. I just did it last fall at Grandparents Day at my grandson's pre-school and sex never once crossed my mind.
Sometimes I think people think to much and read to much into innocent things.
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