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Thread #11455   Message #85527
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10-Jun-99 - 10:53 AM
Thread Name: Hokey pokey and the Druids?
Subject: RE: Hokey pokey and the Druids?
The BS keeps getting deeper!

I've misplaced my copy of Robert Chambers Scots version, Hinkum or Hankum Booby. There are 14 versions of Lubin or Looby Loo, 5 with the tunes, and the 1st with 14 verses, in Alice Bertha Gomme's 'The Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland', I, 1894.

The 1st two verses of the 1st version go:

Here we dance lubin, lubin, lubin,
Here we dance lubin light,
Here we dance lubin, lubin, lubin,
On a Saturday night.

Put all the right hands in,
Take all the right hands out,
Shake all the right hands together,
And turn yourself about.