There's Nae Luck Aboot The Hoose
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
THERE'S NAE LUCK ABOOT THE HOOSE (S8x32) 3C (4C set) Thomas Wilson (19C) RSCDS Book 101- 8 1s cast down behind own lines and cast back up to places
9-16 1s cross down (passing RSh), 1M turns 2L RH 1½ times as 1L turns 2M RH 1½ times to end in 2nd place opposite sides: 1M turns 3L LH as 1L turns 3M LH, 1s end facing 1st corners
17-24 1s dance 'Hello-Goodbye' setting and set to partner turning about to 1M facing up and 1L down
25-32 1s dance reel of 3 on sides (giving RSh to 2nd corner) and cross RH to places
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
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There's Nae Luck Aboot the Hoose is a Scottish Country Dance devised by Thomas Wilson in 1816 and interpreted by the RSCDS, Book 10, in 1935.(Dance information copyright, reproduced here with the kind permission of George Williams)
This dance shares its title with the There's Nae Luck Aboot The House - Song, which was circulating as a Scottish street ballad by the early 1770s. Its authorship is disputed, having been attributed both to Jean Adam (1704–1765) and William Julius Mickle (1735–1788).
The song is voiced by a sailor's wife preparing excitedly for the return of her husband, Colin, from the sea. The title is Scots for "There's no luck about the house", and the recurring refrain says that there is little pleasure in the house when its "gudeman" is away.
Chorus
For there's nae luck about the house,
There's nae luck ava';
There's little pleasure in the house,
When our gudeman's awa'.
There's Nae Luck Aboot The House Song - Information Video
There's Nae Luck Aboot The House, From Garland Of Scotia, Printed Music, c. 1841
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