Skip to My Lou
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skip-to-my-lou-179-15313703
title:
Skip to My Lou
text:
"Skip to My (The) Lou" is a popular American folk song and partner-stealing dance from the 1840s. Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer of President Abraham Lincoln, writes that "Skip-to-my-Lou" was a popular party game in Lincoln's youth in southern Indiana, with verses such as "Hurry up slow poke, do oh do", "I'll get her back in spite of you", "Gone again, what shall I do", and "I'll get another girl sweeter than you". John A. and Alan Lomax wrote that "Skip to My Lou" was a simple game of steal
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Children's song
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_to_My_Lou
date created:
2005-06-29T19:49:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T03:01:48Z
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