Dance The Rambling Pitchfork 5466
See also: The Rambling Pitchfork (R32, 3/4L, Boyd: All Kinds of Everything)
Jig · 48 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 213)
- Devised by
- John W Mitchell
- Intensity
- 800/844/888/844/800/888 = 57% (whole dance)
- Formations
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- Reel of three - diagonal - half - promenade hold (REEL;DIAG;HALF;R3;Promhold;)
- Rights and Lefts (R&L)
- Hands round - 6 - and back (HR;6P;BACK;)
- Steps
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- Skip-Change, Slip-Step
- Published in
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- Whetherly Book 11 [21]
- Recommended Music
- Extra Info
- Los Angeles Branch chair Ann McBride (a native of Northern Ireland herself): a “rambling pitchfork” is an itinerant laborer, meaning …
Los Angeles Branch chair Ann McBride (a native of Northern Ireland herself): a “rambling pitchfork” is an itinerant laborer, meaning something like a migrant-worker farmhand.
The Rambling Pitchfork 3/4L · J48
- 1–
- 1c cross down (2c up) | cast Lsh round 2cnr (1W down 1M up) ; cross passing 3cnr Rsh | cast Lsh round 4cnr to face 2M in promhold
- 9–
- 2M+1c in promhold +3W Rsh diag. ½ Reel3, and face 3M ; 2W+1c+3M Rsh diag. ½ Reel3, and 1c face out W side
- 17–
- 3c+2c R&L while{8} 1c lead out, cross and cast (1W up, 1M down), meet in the middle facing M side , lead out, cross and cast (1M up, 1W down) and meet in promhold facing 2M (in 3W place)
- 25–
- Repeat [9–16] (Rsh ½ Reels3, on 1diag, then on 2diag), finish with corners in own places and 1c coming in on W side
- 33–
- 1c dances Lsh round 1cnr to 2plx ; turn P RH 1½ to (2,1,3)
- 41–
- Circle6 and back (2,1,3)