O'er The Hills
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
O'er The Hills (Mitchell) A thirty-two bar Reel for two couples in a longwise set. Devised by John W Mitchell, Published in Whetherly Book 11.1- 8 First and second couples dance rights and lefts.
9-12 First couple turn one and a half times with the right hand.
13-16 First couple dance right hands across in a wheel with second lady to finish with first man in own place facing out, first lady in second place and second lady in first place.
17-20 First couple dance left hands across with second man to finish with second man in first place and first couple in second place on the opposite sides.
21-24 First couple turn one and a half times with the left hand.
25-32 Four hands round to the left in a circle and back to the right.
Repeat from second place. Recommended tune: O'er The Hills And Far Away
(Dance crib reproduced from The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances, revised and republished by Alison Mitchell)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
Published in The Whetherly Book Of Scottish Country Dances Number 11, 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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