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What A Beau My Granny Was

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WHAT A BEAU MY GRANNY WAS (R8x32) 3C (4C set) Longman and Broderip RSCDS Book 14

1- 8 1M followed by 2M+3M dance up and down behind Ladies, cross and up own side while 1L+2L+3L set twice and circle 3H round to left
9-16 Repeat this Fig with Ladies dancing round as Men set and circle 3H round
17-24 1s+2s dance Poussette. 213
25-32 1s+3s dance R&L

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)


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What a Beau My Granny Was is a Scottish Country Dance published by Longman & Broderip in 1790 and interpreted by the RSCDS in Book 14, published 1947.

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