Dance: Merrily Danced The Quaker's Wife

40-bar Jig
3 couples
Set shape: Longwise - 4

Devised by:

(unknown)

Formations:

Set to and turn Corners (S&T;CRNRS;)
Reel of three (REEL;R3;)
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Note: Due to limitations in the underlying data, the relative order of formations in this list may be different from the order of formations in the actual dance.

Steps:

Skip-Change
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Published in:

Border Dance Book [20] *
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [102]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [97]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [121]

Recommended Music:

Merrily Danced the Quaker's Wife ((traditional))

Recordings (6): Show tunes

Scottish Dance Masters, The Vol 1 (Ron Gonnella & Andrew Rankine), track 8
Memory Lane (Bobby Frew Four), track 11 [pace 34.4]
Come Scottish Country Dancing with the Tillside Trio (The Tillside Trio), track 1
My Scotland (Jimmy Shand and his Band), track 13
South of the Grampians (Bill Douglas and his Scottish Dance Band), track 2
Highlander Music Scottish Dances Vol 6 (Drummond Cook and his Scottish Dance Band), track 13 [pace 35.1]

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