Shake Yourself
32 bar Jig
1-4 1st and 2nd couples dance right hands across once round, back to places.
5-8 They dance half rights and lefts.
9-12 They dance left hands across once round, back to “wrong” sides, and
13-16 Turn partners by the left hand one and a half times to own sides (1st couple are now in 2nd place)
17-18 The two men – and women – set to each other.
19-20 Then set to partners and
21-24 Dance half rights fand lefts.
25-32 They repeat bars 17-24.
Repeat, having passed a couple.
Dance devised by Hugh Foss.
Tune: Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself (Gow’s 2nd Repository p.21) - (music with original copy in library)
Copyright, 1966, by Hugh Foss, Dalry, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Glendarroch Scottish Country Dance Sheet No.4.