Re: Charlie Daniels' N@MBLA Rant

Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 03:26:13 GMT
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"Rat and Swan" <email-address-deleted> wrote
> IIRC, it's a squaredance move. Every "call" given in a squaredance gives
> instructions to the dancers.
>
> Do-si-do I think is an exchange of people back and forth possibly
> ducking under arms?
No, but you often hold the arms out in a position as if you are "Jeannie"
getting ready to "blink" AS you and your partner circle around each other
facing oppostie directions.
> Chicken in the bread pan (k)(p)ickin' out dough is a bobbing movement,
> IIRC with a light scratching or kicking movement with the foot as if
> hen-scratching.
I think you're right, Swan--I *thought* it was a dance move but forgot about
square dance (or, as they say in the Appalachians, "clogging")!
> Goin' to town is walking the length of the line of dancers.
> Goin' home is returning to the first place in the dance form
I remember lots of the little "Circle up four" moves, where two couples form
a small circle. "Split the apple, split the pear", "Dive for the oyster, dig
for the clam", etc. And of course, the "Grand right and left" where the
men/women go around the circle in opposite directions, "handing off" each
person as they pass.
Kent