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    5-8 All clap own hands together once and circle to left once round    5-8 All clap own hands together once and circle to left once round
        (slipping step).</code>        (slipping step).</code>
 +       
 +====== Juice of Barley ======       
 +Nicolas Broadbridge 1995\\
 +Sicilian circle \\
 +Couple facing couple, 1at couples facing anticlockwise.
 +<code>
 +Al 1—4 All back to back right shoulder with partner
 +A2 1—4 All turn paste with both hands once round.
 +Bl 1-4 1st Woman anil 2nd Min epsgemp os emits of circle) half figure 8
 +       inwards through lst Man and 2nd Woman, 1st Woman crossing in front.
 +   5—8 All clap own hands together once and circle to left once round.
 +      (slipping step).
 +B2 1-4 2nd Woman and lst Man (dancers on inside of circle) half figure 8
 +       outwards through 1st Woman and 2nd Man, 2nd Woman crossing in front.
 +   5—8 All clap own hands together once and circle to left once round
 +      (slipping step), finishing facing partner in progressed place.</code>
  
 +The history of this tune and dance is convoluted! An
 +earlier title for this superb tune was "Stingo, or the Oyl of
 +Barley" and it was included with a dance in DM I: 1-8
 +(1651-1690). The first strain of the tune shares strong
 +family resemblance to "Bobbing Joe" (DM I: 1651-1728).
 +Many lyrics were set to the tune, all having in common
 +the metaphorical themes of strong ale, and of "selling
 +barley,” the feminine equivalent of "sowing wild oats."\\
  
 +In 1688 a "new Scotch Song" set to the tune appeared.
 +Written by D'Urfey, it began "Could and Raw the North
 +did blow..." With this song came a new popularity for the
 +melody, and in 1689, Henry Playford cashed in on it,
 +issuing a sheet with six dances, two of them to the tune:
 +"Cold and Raw" and "Juice of Barley" (the dance Sharp
 +reconstructed). He repeated the latter dance as "Cold and
 +Raw" in the next edition of the DM (1:9,1695). After
 +Walsh appropriated almost the entire contents of DM L:16
 +(1716) for his collection of 1718, the dance was changed
 +for the final two editions back to the figures which had
 +first appeared as "Cold and Raw" in 1689.
 +The following song set to the tune was published in
 +1647.\\
 +**Good Ale for My Money**\\
 +Be merry my friends, and list a while\\
 +Unto a merry jest,\\
 +It may from you produce a smile,\\
 +When you heare it exprest:\\
 +Of a young man lately married,\\
 +Which was a boone good fellow;\\
 +This song in's head he alwaies carried,\\
 +When drink made him mellow.\\
 +I cannot go home, nor I will not go home,\\
 +It's ‘long of the oyle of Barly,\\
 +I'le tarry all night for my delight,\\
 +And go home in the morning early.\\
 +Ashton, Humour, Wit and Satire, 276
  
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