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Dance Steps

Adderbury
O = Odds
E = Evens
T = Tips
B = Butts
G = Ground

BB   = Back to Back
DF   = Distinctive Figure
FU   = Foot Up
HdsA = Hands Around
HHds = Half-Hands
PD   = Procession Down
PU   = Procession Up
WH   = Whole Hey
WkR  = Walk Round

Standard sequence of steps is 2* double, 2* single, feet together and jump, 2* double, 4*caper.
 
Standard set of figures is
|WkR|DF|HHds|DF|PD|DF|PU|DF|HdsA|DF|WH|DF|
 

Blue Bells of Scotland
Walk round singing "Where, tell me where, has my highland laddie gone?  He's gone to the wars with his tartan jockstrap on."

Standard figure set.

Sticks double-handed, 1st partners, 2nd middles up, 3rd middles down; repeat
Finish on extra sticking at high speed in strict tempo.


|OT OT OB OB|OB OB OT OT|OT OB OT OB|OT    OT   |
|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --| rep
|EB EB ET ET|ET ET EB EB|EB ET EB ET|EB    ET   |


Constant Billy
Walk round singing "Oh my Billy, my Constant Billy, when will I see my Billy again?  When the fishes fly over the mountain, that's when I'll see my Billy again"

and during the last sticking "Billy again, Billy again, Billy again, again.  Oh my Billy, my Constant Billy, when will I see my Billy again?"

Standard figure set.

Strike on last beat.
Sticks single-handed, partners, middles up, middles down.  Jump on 1st beat, land and strike tips on middle beat.


Good King Wenceslas
Walk round singing "Good King Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephen, when the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even"

and during the last sticking "Brightly shone the moon that night  though the frost was cruel.  When a poor man came in sight Gath'ring winter fuel." 

Standard figure set.

Strike on last beat.
Sticks single-handed

|OG OB OT OT|OG OB OT OT|OG OB OT OT|OG OB OT OT|
|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|
|OG OB OT OT|OG OB OT OT|OG OB OT OT|OG OB OT OT|


Lads-a-Bunchum
Walk round singing "Oh dear mother what a fool I've been, six young men came a courting me.  Five were blind and the other couldn't see.  Oh dear mother what a fool I've been.

|WkR|FU|DF|BB|DF|PD|DF|PU|DF|HdsA|DF|WH|DF|

Strike on last beat.
Sticks double-handed, single-handed, overhead (turning clockwise).

|OT OT OT   |OB OB OB   |OT OB OT OB|OT OB OT   |
|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|
|EB EB EB   |ET ET ET   |EB ET EB ET|EB ET ET   |


Postman's Knock
Stand and sing "Every morning as true as the clock somebody hears the postman's knock. Every morning as true as the clock somebody hears the postman's knock."

|FU|DF|HHds|DF|PD|DF|PU|DF|HdsA|DF|WH|DF|

Sticks double-handed, 1st partners, 2nd middles up, 3rd middles down.  Singing while sticking.
Finish on extra sticking at high speed in strict tempo.

|OT OT OB OB|OB OB OT OT|OT OB OT OB|OT    OT   |
|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|
|EB EB ET ET|ET ET EB EB|EB ET EB ET|ET    ET   |

|OT OT OB OB|OB OB OT OT|OT OB OT OB|OT    OT   |OT         |
|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|-- -- -- --|
|EB EB ET ET|ET ET EB EB|EB ET EB ET|ET    ET   |ET         |


Sweet Jenny Jones
Stand and sing "My Sweet Jenny Jones is the pride of Llangollen, my Sweet Jenny Jones is the girl I love best"

Strike on last beat.
Stick held alternately double-handed and single-handed.

|OT OT OB|OT OT OB|OT OB OT|OB OT   | (hold tips)
|-- -- --|-- -- --|-- -- --|-- -- --|
|EB EB ET|EB EB ET|EB ET EB|ET ET   | (hold tips)

|OT OT OB|OT OT OB|OT OB OT|OT      | (hold tips)
|-- -- --|-- -- --|-- -- --|-- -- --|
|EB EB ET|EB EB ET|EB ET EB|ET      | (hold tips)