Woo'd And Married And A'
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
WOO'D AND MARRIED AND A' (J8x32) 3C (4C set) Thomas Wilson RSCDS Book 161- 8 1s+2s+3s circle 6H round and back
9-16 1s+2s+3s Promenade
17-24 1s+2s dance Poussette (1s end in lines across 1L between 2s facing 1M between 3s)
25-32 2s+1s+3s set twice (1s turning onto sides) and set to partners twice
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagram
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Woo'd And Married And A' is a Scottish Country Dance devised by Wilson in 1816 and interpreted in RSCDS Book 16 in 1951.(Dance information copyright, reproduced here with the kind permission of George Williams)
This dance shares its title with the Woo'd And Married And A' - Poem, an old Scottish song which exists in several versions. One version, beginning "The bride cam' out o' the byre", has been attributed to the Scottish poet Alexander Ross (1699–1784), although other early collections give its author as unknown.
The song describes a newly married woman complaining about the meagre possessions of her new household, while members of her family respond that she should be satisfied with what she has. "Woo'd and married and a'" means "wooed and married and all".
Woo'd and married, and a',
Married, and woo'd, and a'!
And was she nae very weel off,
That was woo'd, and married and a'?
The song has a complicated publication history, with different sets of words appearing under the title. A version was included in David Herd's Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs in 1776, although the song was already considered to be older.
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) later wrote her own version, which she described as being "taken from an old song of that name". Her version was published in Fugitive Verses in 1840 and subsequently appeared in Alexander Whitelaw's The Book of Scottish Song in 1843.
Woo'd And Married And A' Song - Information Video
Woo'd And Married And A', From Wood's Edition Of The Songs Of Scotland, Printed Music
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