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Ye're Welcome, Charly Stuart

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YE'RE WELCOME, CHARLY STUART (R8x32) 3C (4C set) Castle Menzies RSCDS Book 7

1- 8 1s set, cast 1 place, 2s set and cast back to place
9-16 1s+2s dance RH across ½ way, set, dance LH across ½ way, 1s cast to end facing 1st corners while 2s dance up
17-24 1s set and turn 1st corners, set and turn 2nd corners
25-32 1s dance reels of 3 on opposite sides giving LSh to 1st corners, 1s cross RH to 2nd place own sides

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


Keith Rose's Crib Diagram


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Ye're Welcome, Charly Stuart is a Scottish Country Dance found in the Castle Menzies Register of Dances from 1749 (where it is called "You'r Welcome Charly Stuart"), and interpreted by the RSCDS in book 7, 1931.

(Dance information copyright, reproduced here with the kind permission of George Williams)


This dance shares its title with the You're Welcome, Charlie Stewart - Song, an anonymous Jacobite song dating from the eighteenth century.

"Charly Stuart" refers to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, who landed in the Highlands in 1745 and led the Jacobite rising of that year in an attempt to restore the House of Stuart to the British throne.

Chorus:
You're welcome, Charlie Stewart,
You're welcome, Charlie Stewart,
You're welcome, Charlie Stewart,
There's none so right as thou art.


You're Welcome, Charlie Stewart
You're Welcome, Charlie Stewart - From Page 415 Of 'The Glen Collection Of Printed Music, Scots Musical Museum', Volume 5, c. 1787-1803


Image from (cropped) National Library Of Scotland, licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0.

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