Lucy's Flittin'
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
LUCY'S FLITTIN' (J8x32) 3C (4C set) Lily Davison Glenfeshie Book1- 8 1s cross RH, cast 1 place and dance ½ Fig of 8 round 2s end facing 1st corners
9-16 1s turn 1st corner RH to 1M between 3s, 1L between 2s and 1s set to partner (up/down). 1s turn 2nd corner LH to 1M between 2s, 1L between 3s and 1s set to partner (up/down)
17-24 All dance DoSiDo with opposite person turning onto own sides 1s ending in 2nd place
25-32 All circle 6H round and back
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
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Lucy's Flittin' - Scottish Country Dancing Instruction VideoDance Information
"Flittin'" is Scots for moving from one home to another.This dance shares its title with the Lucy's Flittin' - Song, written by the Scottish poet William Laidlaw and published in James Hogg's The Forest Minstrel in 1810, to the tune Paddy O'Rafferty.
The song describes Lucy leaving her home in the Ettrick valley and saying farewell to the places and people she has known there.
'Twas when the wan leaf frae the birk tree was fa'in,
And Martinmas dowie had wound up the year,
That Lucy row'd up her wee kist wi' her a' in't,
And left her auld maister and neebours sae dear:
For Lucy had served in the glen a' the simmer;
She cam' there afore the flower bloomed on the pea;
An orphan was she, and they had been kind till her,
Sure that was the thing brocht the tear to her e'e.
'Lucy's Flitting' is a simple and pathetic picture of a poor Ettrick maiden's feelings, in leaving a service where she had been so happy.
Lucy's Flittin' Song - Information Video
Lucy's Flittin', From Glen Collection Of Printed Music, Wood's Edition Of The Songs Of Scotland, Printed Music, c. 1857
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