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G - A - C - G (2x's)

     G
I remember my very first memory

 A
Back when I was a kid

     F
I remember my Mom when she was holding me

       C                    D
And singing to me like my Momma did


     G
I remember that simple little nursery rhyme

             A
One that everybody knows

 F  
She used to sing it all of the time

                C             D
I'll bet you remember how it goes


               G
You put your right hand in

              G 
You put your left hand out

               G
You put your whole self in

     D7
You turn yourself about

    D7
You do the Hokey Pokey

     D7
You give a little shout

  D7                   G     A - C - G
That's what it's all about.


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     G
I remember then that I grew up

         A
I got a job and a car and a wife

     F
I remember then we had our own three kids

        C                   D
And a house filled up with life

         G
And my Momma would come over and she'd baby-sit

     A
I remember as I'd leave I'd see

                F
There was the kid's Grandma she was singing to them

 C                      D
Just like she'd sung to me


               G
You put your right hand in

              G 
You put your left hand out

               G
You put your whole self in

     D7
You turn yourself about

    D7
You do the Hokey Pokey

     D7
You give a little shout

  D7                   G     A - C - G
That's what it's all about.


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  Cm
Grandma's gotten old now

  G#m
Sometimes she's just not there

   Bb
We put her away in a nursing home

    F
We had to put her away somewhere

     Cm
I remember driving up to see her

    G#m
I remember because it was today

        Bb
And I parked the car, put on a smile

    F                             D
I tried to think of something to say

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      G
Now there were my Momma with the other old folks

            A
They were doing their exercise

     F
I remember then that so suddenly

              C                D
It seemed something got in my eyes

            G
There's a social worker, she was singing to them

             A
To get 'em moving like the music does

     F
I remember the song she was singing to them

             C                 D
I bet you guessed now what it was


               G
You put your right hand in

              G 
You put your left hand out

               G
You put your whole self in

     D7
You turn yourself about

    D7
You do the Hokey Pokey

     D7
You give a little shout

  D7                   G     A - C - G
That's what it's all about.

[repeat and fade]