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Children īs song
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sweetlove
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Children īs song
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There īs a children īs song called "Skip to my lou". Does anyone know what it means, especially this word īlou �?
Thanks in advance!!! |
8 Feb 2011
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Zora
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Well, according to wikipedia "lou" is an Americanised version of "loo" or "love" in Scottish. Don īt know how accurate that is. Maybe Alex can shed some light on that.
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8 Feb 2011
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Natyfuchi
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I don īt agree.
Skip to My (The) Lou was a popular partner-stealing dance from America īs frontier period.
廍kip to My Lou� is a simple game of stealing partners. It begins with any number of couples hand in hand, skipping around in a ring. A lone boy in the center of the moving circle of couple sings, 尞ost my partner what𠑥l I do?� as the girls whirl past him. The young man in the center hesitates while he decides which girl to choose, singing, 𨧻 īll get another one prettier than you.� When he grasps the hand of his chosen one, her partner then takes his place in the center of the ring and the game continues. It īs an ice-breaker, a good dance to get a group acquainted to one another and to get everyone in the mood for swinging around. |
8 Feb 2011
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Zora
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IF people are going to copy wiki links, please know what you are copying. The question was about the meaning of "lou" - if you read on, you will find that in this very same explanation it talks about "lou" being turned from "loo" meaning "love" in Scottish.
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8 Feb 2011
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almaz
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Well, Zora, I can only confirm that loo is a variant of the Scottish luve, lufe, lo, love &c although I know it through its pronunciation in Burns � poems like īWantonness for ever � (I hae lo īed the black, the broun; I hae lo īed the gowden - a � the colours o � the toun...).
I can īt say whether or not īSkip to my Lou � has a Scottish origin but it may be no coincidence that many of the first frontier settlers were Scots or of Scottish descent (including the Scotch-Irish). |
8 Feb 2011
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douglas
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Skipping is a kind of hopping step. In the song people are dancing from one partner to the next--they are skipping to their desired partner. I always thought Lou was a name, but seeing hte above inputs the song makes better since.
So it means "dance to my love" |
8 Feb 2011
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