My Love She's But A Lassie Yet (RSCDS Book 9)
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
MY LOVE SHE'S BUT A LASSIE YET (R8x32) 2C (4C set) RSCDS Book 91s start on opposite sides
1- 8 1s+2s set on sides, change places RH, set to partner and cross RH
9-16 2s+1s repeat above Fig
17-24 1s+2s circle 4H round to left twice
25-32 1s+2s dance Poussette (1s end on opposite sides to repeat dance but cross to own sides at end of 3rd dance)
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams
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My Love She's But A Lassie Yet (RSCDS Book 9) - Scottish Country Dancing Instruction VideoDance Information
Also see the dance My Love She's But A Lassie Yet (101 Scottish Country Dances) from 101 Scottish Country Dances.My Love, She's But a Lassie Yet is a Scottish Country Dance of uncertain origin and interpreted by the RSCDS, Book 9, 1934
(Dance information copyright, reproduced here with the kind permission of George Williams)
The title of this dance, My Love She's But A Lassie Yet, comes from My Love She's But A Lassie Yet - Poem written by Robert Burns in 1798 and sung to the tune Lady Bandinscoth's Reel.
Chorus
My love, she's but a lassie yet,
My love, she's but a lassie yet,
I'll let her stand a year or twa,
She'll no be half sae saucy yet.
This is an old song, which received some touches from Burns for Johnson's Museum.
The My Love She's But A Lassie Yet Song - Information Video
My Love She's But A Lassie Yet, From Garland Of Scotia Page 96, Printed Music, c. 1841
Image from (cropped) National Library Of Scotland, licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0.