“You put your right arm in,
Your right arm out
In, out, in, out and shake it all about.
You do the hokey cokey and you turn around,
And that's what it's all about.”

—  Jimmy Kennedy

Song The Hokey Cokey (actually by Al Tabor).
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Irish songwriter 1902–1984

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