skip to my lou

[Lynne Murphy]

I've discovered that my students here think that the song "Skip to my
Lou" is "Skip to the Loo".  In other words, they've assumed since
childhood that this is a song about approaching the bathroom with a
bouncy step.  I am assuming that "Skip to my Lou" means "Skip to the
left" in square-dance-speak.  Is this correct?

Lynne

Dr M Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK

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