My Dungannon Sweetheart
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
My Dungannon Sweetheart A thirty-two bar Jig for three couples in a longwise set. Devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 14.1- 8 First couple dance down the middle and back.
9-16 First and second couples dance right hands across in a wheel half way and set; they dance left hands across in a wheel half way to finish facing up and down and then change places on the sides giving left hands.
17-24 Reels of three on the sides, first and third couples pass by the right shoulder to commence.
25-32 Six hands round to the left in a circle and back to the right.
Repeat from second place.
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Dance Information
Recommended tune: My Dungannon Sweetheart.Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 14, 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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