Lost my partner what'll I do? [Repeat twice more.]
Skip to my Lou, my darling.
Chorus
Skip, skip, skip to my Lou. [Repeat twice more.]
Skip to my Lou, my darling.
I'll get another, a nicer one too---
If I lose that one, I'll take two---
Flies in the sugar bowl, shoo, shoo, shoo---
Cat's in the buttermilk, licking it too---
Kitten in the haymow, mew, mew, mew---
Bears in the rose bush, boo, boo, boo---
Mule's in the cellar, kicking up through---
Dad's old hat got torn in two---
Little red wagon, painted blue---
Had a cart and pony too---
Going to get a red-bird, a pretty one too---
If I can't get a red-bird, a blue-bird'll do---
Needle in the haystack, Number 32 ---
Hurry up, slow poke, do, Oh, do---