Showing posts with label dance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dance. Show all posts

Monday, February 18, 2013

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.)

Tune: 355- 466- 7-67 89mi
355- 466- 7-67  988-
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mi 888 8667 7-67 8---

Basically, a variant of "Little Brown Jug."

Monday, November 26, 2012

Here We Go Round the Mountain

Sugar's on the floor!!

Here we go round the mountain, two by two. 
Here we go round the mountain, two by two. 
Here we go round the mountain, two by two. 
Rise up, sugar, rise!

Give us a little motion, two by two.
Give us a little motion, two by two.
Give us a little motion, two by two.
Rise up, sugar, rise!

That's a fine motion, two by two.
That's a fine motion, two by two.
That's a fine motion, two by two.
Rise up sugar, rise!.

Circle game.
Vs 1: Partners promenade around IT couple.
Vs 2: IT couple does a motion.
Vs 3: Everyone does the motion.
Vs. 1 again: Everyone promenades, IT couple slips into the circle behind another couple, and that couple becomes IT, goes to the center and decides what the next motion will be.

Tune: 3331335- 3331332- 3331335- 54321----





Source: Richard Spalding