Maggie Lauder
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
MAGGIE LAUDER (S8x32) 2C (4C set) Thomas Wilson RSCDS Book 101- 8 1s+2s set twice and dance RH across ½ way
9-16 1s+2s set twice and dance LH across back to places
17-24 1s lead down the middle, back to top and cast to 2nd place
25-32 2s+1s dance R&L
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
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Maggie Lauder is a Scottish Country Dance first published by Thomas Wilson in 1816. It was interpreted by the RSCDS in Book 10, 1935.(Dance information copyright, reproduced here with the kind permission of George Williams)
This dance shares its title with the Maggie Lauder - Song, generally attributed to the Scottish poet Francis Sempill of Beltrees (c.1616–1682).
The song takes the form of a conversation between Maggie Lauder and a travelling piper named Rob the Ranter, who tells her that he has travelled through England and Scotland playing his pipes. The tune Maggie Lauder was already widely circulated in Scotland and later appeared in numerous eighteenth-century collections.
Wha wadna be in love
Wi' bonnie Maggie Lauder?
A piper met her gaun to Fife,
And speir'd what was't they ca'd her;
Eight scornfully she answer'd him,
Begone you hallanshaker!
Jog on your gate, you bladderskate,
My name is Maggie Lauder.
Maggie Lauder Song - Information Video
Maggie Lauder, From Scottish Orpheus, Printed Music, Hamilton And Muller, c. 1865
Image from National Library Of Scotland, licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0.
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