The Gallant Weaver
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
THE GALLANT WEAVER (R8x32) 3C (4C set) Hugh Foss Dances To Song Tunes1- 8 1s set, cross RH, cast (2s step up), cross LH and remain facing out
9-12 2s+3s dance RH across while 1s dance anticlockwise around them ½ way to 2nd place opposite sides. 2(1)3
13-16 1s set advancing and turn 2H once round
17-20 1M dances down, 1L up, out of ends, cast to Right while 2s+3s set to diagonal opposite corner and dance to corner on their right
21-24 1M dances up, 1L down, all repeat bars 17-20
25-28 Repeat bars 17-20 but corners do not set; instead they dance 2 corner places to Right
29-32 1s set advancing, turn RH once round to 2nd place own sides. 213
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
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The title of this dance, The Gallant Weaver, comes from the The Gallant Weaver - Poem written by Robert Burns in 1791.Where Cart rins rowin' to the sea,
By mony a flower and spreading tree,
There lives a lad, the lad for me,
He is a gallant Weaver.
O, I had wooers aught or nine,
They gied me rings and ribbons fine;
And I was fear'd my heart wad tine,
And I gied it to the Weaver.
The river Cart runs through Paisley, an important weaving town in Robert Burns lifetime.
The Gallant Weaver Song - Information Video
Waterfall At White Cart Water, Paisley, Scotland
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