Patty-cake polka

Heel and toe, heel and toe, slide, slide and stop.

  Heel and toe, heel and toe, slide, slide, slide and stop.

Right, right, right.   Left, left, left. Both, both, both.   Knees, knees, knees.

Turn your partner once around and on to the next.

Partners face each other, holding both hands in a double circle, greasy-barrel joined up at the ends.

Heel and toe   (with clockwise foot)   Slide  (sashay to clockwise)

Repeat in opposite direction.

Clap R hand w. partner,  then L, then both, then knees.

Take both hands, turn around in a clockwise direction until the inside partner gets back to where she was.  She stops. Drop hands.   The outside partner keeps going a couple of steps to where the person on her left was formerly.  Everyone has a new partner, and the game goes again.


( You can change the last line to "Turn your partner once around and curtsy so politely" if you want to get the hang of the dance before adding the complication of changing partners.)

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Basically, a variant of "Little Brown Jug."