Pokey LaFarge may dress like a 1930s throwback, but his original songs are peppered with everyday references which, one assumes, have been absorbed osmosis-like on his endless roadtouring of the USA and beyond.
Pokey LaFarge's current album, Something In The Water (Rounder Records), was issued earlier this year and features twelve songs, all but one - Tampa Red's All Night Long -- written or co-written by
Pokey.
And for
Pokey La Farge, there's nothing unusual about the traditions of American music being kept alive, simply because it affected him from a very young age and he believes it can do the same for other people.
Jack lives in Hokey
Pokey, a wonderland where kids play all day and there are no grown-ups to interfere.
You may be a girl in a
pokey flat, but you'll be a girl with self respect in a
pokey flat - one who's capable of finding herself an un-pokey one of her very own.
But even if Lohan gets thrown in the
pokey, people close to her think she'd be fine.
Rakoff has changed two of the female friends from The Group to men and melded four of McCarthy's characters (Lakey,
Pokey, Priss, and Helena above) into one, Sadie.
You have to walk through the main concourse then you have to go outside to the side of the station to a
pokey lift that only takes one wheelchair.
Life proves no less eventful for Alice when she relinquishes the sofa in Milly's
pokey flat for her own room in the more spacious apartment of her friend Fae Madison.
German intercity trains, whereas, typically pull only three first class in a 10-coach train, with a fourth as dining-car and half a car for luggage and bikes, on a loading gauge much bigger than Virgin's
pokey Pendolinos, which have so little luggage-room that bags now regularly block aisles and doors.
The tragic clevercloggs declared: "This is
Pokey, this is Uncle Frider and this is Monkey Tonkedy."
The
pokey pad in Chelsea costs the same price as the average UK home, but potential buyers would need to spend another pounds 30,000 to make the cramped basement liveable.
Highway 61 is the story of
Pokey Jones, a barber and occasional trumpeter in the small northern Ontario town of Pickerel Falls who is briefly a local celebrity when he finds a dead body behind his shop.
Among tacky novelty gifts, Christopher Behrens's Penis
Pokey (Quirk)--"the book where you're the star!"--is an instant classic, Its 20 pages of heavy, color-printed cardboard are perforated with a 1 3/4-inch hole in the center, Inside are nine scenarios that call for a snake-like object to be inserted to complete the picture: fire hose, banana, sea monster ...
Evidently bored with shuffleboard, bridge, and "Matlock" night, seniors at one Florida retirement home seem to have been taking the "hokey
pokey" to a new level.
