Lyrics
(African American folk song)
Old man Moses sick in bed,
Called for the doctor and the doctor said,
“Please step forward and turn around,
Do the hokey-pokey and get out of town.”
Movement
- “sick in bed” = hands under head as if sleeping
- “called for the doctor” = phone against ear
- step forward
- turn around
- “hokey-pokey” = wiggle hips (you could also sing “wiggle wiggle”)
- “get out” = thumb up and out to the side
- Optional: Do the Hokey Pokey after this song!
See also
- Culture: African American
- Subject: doctors
- Activity: motions
- Form: AB
- Harmony: chords I, IV, V
- Meter: 4
- Rhythm: syncopation
- Scale: pentatonic
- Tones: drmsl
- Source: Share the Music, MacMillan McGraw-Hill, Grade 3, 1997
- similar song: Grandma Moses
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
