“Skip to My (The) Lou” is a popular American partner-stealing dance from the 1840s. … and Alan Lomax wrote that “Skip to My Lou” was a simple game of stealing partners (or swapping partners as in square dancing). It begins with any number of couples skipping hand in hand around in a ring.
“Skip to My (The) Lou” is a popular American partner-stealing dance from the 1840s. … and Alan Lomax wrote that “Skip to My Lou” was a simple game of stealing partners (or swapping partners as in square dancing). It begins with any number of couples skipping hand in hand around in a ring.