To download your free instrumental mp3 of this song, click or tap on the following button, then choose “Save link as…” Today the song “Skip to my Lou” is often used as a love song for kids. As people moved westward square dancing and barn dancing became acceptable, at least to some. The play-party became a popular pastime for teenagers and young married couples. The dancers sang and the audience clapped to create rhythm for their own music. Faced with such a religious obstacle to socializing, young people developed the “play-party,” in which the objectionable features of dancing were removed or masked. In early America, some Puritans regarded the fiddle as a tool of the devil (since it led to dancing, which was regarded as sinful).

Skip to My Lou also used to be a popular lyrical game in Abraham Lincoln’s youth in southern Indiana and Kentucky (1826).

The “lou” in the title comes from the word “loo”, a Scottish word for “love”. Skip to My Lou was a popular American partner-stealing dance from the 1840s and today it is a popular children’s song. Brahms' Lullaby (Cradle Song) | Nursery Rhymes | Children Songs

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