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treeseed commented on the word skip to my lou
"Skip to My (The) Lou was a popular partner-stealing dance from America's frontier period. Since instruments were frowned upon, particularly the fiddle, the dancers had to create their own music by clapping and singing.
Couples would dance around a lone male who sang "lost my partner, what'll I do." At the appropriate point in the lyrics, he would "steal" the partner of a dancing man as he sang "I'll find another one prettier than you." The displaced man would take his place in the circle.
"Lou" is apparently a corruption of "loo," the Scottish word for lovecitation needed.
An unconventional arrangement of this tune is featured in the 1944 motion picture, Meet Me in St. Louis.
" __WikipediaJuly 25, 2009
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word skip to my lou
I remember when we had to do this at school for PE. Unfortunately, we didn't get the nice historic background.
July 26, 2009
bilby commented on the word skip to my lou
You try teaching a dance called 'Skip to the Toilet' to Australian kids.
July 26, 2009
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word skip to my lou
Yeah, tell me about it... Throughout the whole thing the jokes never stopped. The teacher quit a couple of years later.
July 26, 2009