Bampton BANBURY BILL Hanky Single step, both hankies up, walk back hankies alternate waist level Dance Start Backwards – Step, step hop, caper, caper, ending on left foot with right ready to move Foot up (both hankies) Foot down Chorus Corners 4 x sidestep either in a clockwise circle or crossing 2 x open sidesteps face outwards All four capers to finish facing across
Half Gyp Chorus Whole Gyp Chorus Rounds Chorus All Up HIGHLAND MARY (A muse of Robbie Burns. She died at 23 from typhoid) Hanky
Single step, both hankies up, walk back hankies alternate waist level
Dance Start Backwards – Step, step hop, caper, caper, ending on left foot with right ready to move Foot up (both hankies) Foot down
Chorus Chicken Shushing up (closed step) Turn right to face down, Chicken Shushing down (closed step) Turn to face partner, Half Hey (ends turn out) repeat all
Half Gyp Chorus Whole Gyp Chorus Rounds Chorus All Up
ROBBIE BURNS aka Highland Mary for Nine (18th Century Poet Robert Burns had a brief affair with Mary Campbell, known as Highland Mary due to her heavy Gaelic accent) The adaption of Highland Mary for nine dancers adds a third line to give a 3x3 grid, with No1's line being in he middle, No2's line to the right of No1's line to make a normal set, and No7's line to the left of No 1. The central line alternates between the two wings. Foot up (Nos 1 and 2's lines form the main set) No1 and No7's lines turn left, and No2's right to face down. Nos 1&2 face to hey Half Gyp (Nos 1 and 7's lines form the main set) Nos 1&7 face for the half gyp and hey Whole Gyp (Nos 1 and 2's lines form the main set) Nos 1&2 face for the whole gyp and hey Rounds, (Nos 1 and 7's lines form the main set) No 3, who dances in the centre of the set, joins the rounds between Nos 1&7, and returns to place at the end of the rounds. Nos 1&7 face for the hey. OVER THE HILLS A dance written by Thames Valley Morris Men and known by them as the "Gaye Dance" and by us from the tune Over the Hill and Far Away Foot up and down Chorus:
Half-gyp Chorus Back to back Chorus Rounds Chorus capering in to the middle at the end |
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