Lyr Req: Hokey Pokey (RT's) 1st verse?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hokey Pokey (RT's) 1st verse?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 13 Jan 04 - 04:00 PM

Hokey Pokey (The Ice Cream Song)

All Thompson's songs, I think, can be found via the "Song-o-Matic" at his official website.

Subject: Lyr Add: HOKEY POKEY (Richard Thompson)
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 13 Jan 04 - 03:34 PM

Can anybody fill in the blank in the first verse of "Hokey Pokey" below? Sounds like "got their money tucked up in their hand" but the word money is then repeated in the last line, so I don't know. I couldn't find this song in the DT so if someone will kindly complete the missing line we can bung it in. Also, I'm assuming that Richard Thompson wrote it, so somebody please correct the title-credit if I'm wrong. Thanks catters (my one remaining heroically-struggling brain cell thanks you too). Bonnie

HOKEY POKEY

Richard Thompson

There's a boy running and a little girl too
Got the money tucked up in their hands
Over the wall and down into the street
Giving money to the hollering man

Everybody runs for hokey pokey
Hear the ringing on the ice-cream bell
He's got the stuff that'll cool you right down
It's the best they ever did sell

Girl on the corner with the tight dress on
You know she don't know nothing so fine
Feels so good when you put it in your mouth
Sends a shiver all down your spine

Cat got your tongue? says Frankie to Annie
Girl you haven't said a word all night
Annie she smiled and she took another bite
Hokey pokey made her feel all right

Well some like it round and some like it flat
And some like a poke or two
But everybody runs for hokey pokey
It's the natural thing to do

Down in the prison Number 999
Working like a bee in a hive
He's still dreaming of hokey pokey
Helps to keep that boy alive

Boss man says to choir boy Rocky
Don't you sing to the boys in blue
Or you won't get no more hokey pokey
By the time we're through with you

Fellas in the alley all look like girls
With their lipstick and their high-heeled shoes
They feel so pretty and the boys all say
That they know just what to do

Missing words inserted. --JoeClone, 15-Jan-04.