Skip to My Lou
Skip, skip, skip to my Lou,
Skip, skip, skip to my Lou,
Skip, skip, skip to my Lou,
Skip to my Lou, my darlin’.
(changing verse here – repeated 3 times)
Skip to my Lou, my darlin’.
changing verse:
Fly’s in the buttermilk, shoo, fly, shoo
There’s a little red wagon, paint it blue
Lost my partner, what’ll I do?
I’ll get another one, prettier than you
Can’t get a red bird, jay bird’ll do
Cat’s in the cream jar, ooh, ooh, ooh
Off to Texas, two by two
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Origin
Very little is known about the actual origins of “Skip to My Lou,” although it is commonly thought to date back to 18th- or 19th-century America, possibly from Tennessee. It gained popularity as a “play-party” – a name for a dance disguised as a game and performed to hand clapping instead of musical accompaniment. There is also some speculation that the song might have roots in Scotland, where the word “lou” means “sweetheart” or “lover” in the Scots Germanic language.
