Since there is some licence to be pedantic on this marvellous thread, Alice I loved your story but someone took it from elsewhere, probably US, as the 'Aboriginal' references are all wrong. The English they are speaking is B movie American Indian, as are 'villages', 'chiefs' and 'drums', none of which are Aboriginal.

I discovered recently that the English knew it as 'Hokey Cokey', and the Australians as 'Hokey Pokey', both are well referenced in the earlier messages.