The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) / With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc.

by Alice Bertha Gomme

Put your right hand in,
Put your right hand out,
Shake it in the middle,
And turn yourselves about.

—Lady C. Gurdon’s Suffolk County Folk-lore, p. 64.

[Repeat this for “left hand,” “right foot,” “left foot,” “heads,” and “put yourselves in.”]

VI.

Can you dance looby, looby,
Can you dance looby, looby,
Can you dance looby, looby,
All on a Friday night?

You put your right foot in,
And then you take it out,
And wag it, and wag it, and wag it,
Then turn and turn about.

—Addy’s Sheffield Glossary.

VII.

Here we dance luby, luby,
Here we dance luby light,
Here we dance luby, luby,
All on a Wednesday night.