“Skip to My Lou”
Description
Various stanzas, all with the chorus "Skip to my Lou, my darling": "Lost my partner, what'll I do?" "I'll get another one prettier than you!" "Flies in the buttermilk, shoo shoo shoo!"
Cross references
- cf. "Waltz the Hall" (lyrics)
Recordings
- James Crase, "Skip to My Lou" (on MMOKCD)
- Crockett's Kentucky Mountaineers, "Skip To My Lou" (Crown 3188/Montgomery Ward 3025, 1931)
- Pete Daley's Arkansas Fiddlers, "Skip to My Lou" (Continental 3012, n.d.)
- Uncle Eck Dunford, "Skip to my Lou, My Darling" (Victor 20938, 1927; on CrowTold01)
- Georgia Organ Grinders, "Skip To My Lou, My Darling" (Columbia 15415-D, 1929)
- Spud Gravely & Glen Smith, "Skip to My Lou" (on HalfCen1)
- John D. Mounce et al, "Skip to My Lou" (on MusOzarks01)
- Ritchie Family, "Skip to My Lou" (on Ritchie03)
- Pete Seeger, "Skip to My Lou" (on PeteSeeger08, PeteSeegerCD02) (on PeteSeeger17) (on PeteSeeger32) (on PeteSeeger21) (on PeteSeeger22) (on PeteSeeger23)
References
- Randolph 516, "Skip to My Lou" (5 texts plus 2 excerpts, 1 tune)
- Randolph/Cohen, pp. 395-397, "Skip to my Lou" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 516A)
- Hudson 152, p. 300, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text)
- Fuson, pp. 166-169, "Skip to My Lou" (1 very full text)
- Cambiaire, pp. 131-132, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text)
- Scott-BoA, pp. 167-168, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Lomax-FSUSA 30, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Lomax-ABFS, pp. 294-295, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Fife-Cowboy/West 99, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Arnett, p. 60, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Chase, pp. 193-199, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune, plus figures)
- Darling-NAS, pp. 256-257, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text)
- PSeeger-AFB, p. 90, "Skip To My Lou" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 288, "Skip to My Lou" (1 text)
- Silber-FSWB, p. 389, "Skip To My Lou" (1 text)
- DT, SKIPLOU
- Roud #3593
- BI, R516