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Dance Willie's Rare and Willie's Fair 7173

Jig · 48 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4   (Progression: 213)

Devised by
Unknown
Intensity
440 888 888 800 808 880 = 66% (1 turn), 50% (whole dance)
Formations
Steps
  • Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change, Slip-Step
Published in
Recommended Music
Extra Info
Willie's Rare And Willie's Fair

Willy’s rare, and Willy’s fair,
  And Willy’s wond’rous bonnie;
And Willy heght to marry me,
  Gin e’er he marry’d ony.

Yestreen I made my bed fu’ brade,
  The night I’ll make it narrow;
For a’ the live lang winter’s night,
  I lie twin’d of my marrow.

O came you by yon water side,
  Pu’d you the rose or lily;
Or came you by yon meadow green,
  Or saw you my sweet Willy?

She sought him east, she sought him west,
  She sought him brad and narrow;
Sine in the clifting of a craig,
  She found him drown’d in Yarrow.

To this very old and anonymous song William Stenhouse supplied an additional stanza that had been omitted from William Thomson’s Orpheus Caledonius, Volume 2, of 1733.

She’s taen three links o’ her gowden locks;
  That hung down lang and yellow,
She’s tied them about sweet Willy’s waist,
  And drawn him out of Yarrow.

Willie's Rare and Willie's Fair 3/4L · J48
1–
1M+2W set advancing and turn RH, 1W+2M repeat
9–
Reels3 on opposite sides (1c cross down)
17–
Reels3 on own side, 1c crossing back
25–
1c set, cross RH, cast off one (2c up), cross LH
33–
1c+3c circle4 L and back
41–
2c+1c R&L.
Willie's Rare and Willie's Fair 3/4L · J48
1-8
1M+2L set & turn RH, 1L+2M set & turn RH
9-16
1s dance reflection reels of 3 on opposite sides
17-24
1s dance reflection reels of 3 on own sides
25-32
1s set, cross RH, cast 1 place & cross LH
33-40
1s+3s circle 4H round & back
41-48
2s+1s dance R&L

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Added on: 2020-02-09 (Murrough Landon)
Quality: Informal/Social (RSCDS)

NameDateOwnerLast changed
Friday class party-20200131 2020-01-31 Ward Fleri Jan. 24, 2020, 7:53 a.m.
San Diego 45th Anniversary Ball 2020-03-07 Ward Fleri Jan. 28, 2020, 9:50 p.m.

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