 Skip to My Lou

"Skip to My (The) Lou" is a popular American partner-stealing dance from the 1840s.The Abraham Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg writes that "Skip-to-my-Lou" was popular play party game in US President Abraham 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".