I once heard/saw someone sing a 20 verse ballad with actions. No-one in the audience joined in but just glared at the singer (which, in my opinion, she richly deserved!). One verse went something like this:

"Hey Earl Brand I see (shade eyes with fingers of right hand) your heart's blood (clap hands to left breast)

Hey lilly, ho lilly etc.

'Tis only the glint (hold hands above head and open and close fingers)
O my scarlet hood (make hooding motion with hands over head)

In the brave nights etc. etc."

And so on for verse after verse.

Words failed me then and fail me now ...