Roll your hands to the left, your hands to the right...	Then beat out the rhythm on both of your knees...	Clap your hands a one and a two...

Put your fists together how I love you...	Cross your hands above and below...	Tap your right elbow, your left and then, All you do is start over again...

Demonstrated by 6-5 Special's Juke Box Girl, Julie Tucker. I hate to do this, but I calculate that Julie celebrated her 65th birthday in 2001. Real Audio file:Hand-Jive, by Betty Smith Group, Decca F10986, 1957.

1 When there ain't no room for you to dance,
There's another way to find romance.
Hand-jive, hand-jive, baby,
Hand-jive, hand-jive, baby,
C'mon and sit and hand-jive with me.

2 Roll your hands to the left,
Your hands to theright
Be myhand-jive baby for tonight.
Hand-jive, hand-jive, baby,
Hand-jive, hand-jive, baby,
C'mon and sit and hand-jive with me.

3 Ev'rybody's doin' it with style and ease,
Then you beat out the rhythm on both of your knees.
Hand-jive, hand-jive, baby,
Hand-jive, hand-jive, baby,
C'mon and sit and hand-jive with me.

4 You clap your hands a one and a two,
Put your fists together how I love you,
Cross your hands above and below,
C'mon now baby, go, cat, go.

5 Tap your right elbow, the left and then,
All you do is start over again.
Hand-jive, hand-jive, baby,
Hand-jive, hand-jive, baby,
C'mon and sit and hand-jive with me.

Real Audio: Willy And The Handjive - Johnny Otis.