Cock Up Your Beaver
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
Cock Up Your Beaver A thirty-two bar Jig for three couples in a longwise set. Devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 12.1- 4 First lady and second man change places giving right hand, first lady casts up into her partner's place whilst second man casts off into his partner's place. Meanwhile first man and second lady set and turn three quarters with the right hand.
5- 8 First and second couples dance right hands across in a wheel once round.
9-12 First man and second lady change places giving right hand, first man casts into second position on the ladies side, whilst second lady casts into first position on the men's side. Meanwhile first lady and second man set and turn three quarters with the right hand.
13-16 Second and first couples join hands on the side and set, then cross giving right hands, first couple finishing back to back in the centre facing own side.
17-24 Double triangles.
25-32 Six hands round to the left in a circle and back to the right.
Repeat from second place. Recommended tune: Cock Up Your Beaver
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 12, by John W Mitchell, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell. Instructions reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-ND 4.0).
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