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Tom Tinker

Longways for as many as will

Tom Tinker music

Lead up all a double change places with your own keeping them still in your hand, faces downward. Lead down a double change places as before, facing to the presence. First man slip down before the second man, then the first woman slip down behind the second woman the first couple turn off round into the second place and the second into the first place. The second couple do as much to their places.
First man march toward the wall, his woman following him, while the second woman marches toward the other wall, the man following her. The First man take his woman in his right hand, facing the presence, fall back a double while the second man take his woman in his left hand facing downward, falls back a double. Now the first couple being in the second place and the second in the first meet, meet and pass through, the first man cast off to the left hand and fall into the second place of the two, side, his woman following him, while the second woman cast off and fall into the first place, his man following her. First man and second woman cross over, the first man going about the second man to his place and the second woman about the first woman. First man and second woman take both hands, the first woman come in between your arms, the second man as much, kiss and arm your own, the first couple in the second place and the second in the first place.
 


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