Thread The Needle Square

FORMAT: Square
MUSIC: 6 * 32-bar jigs

CHORUS:
Al Right-hand turn partner. Left-hand turn partner.
A2 Right-hand turn corner. Left-hand turn corner.

B1 All join hands, in to the middle and back. And again.
B2 Promenade partner.

FIGURE:
Al Head couples right-hand star and left-hand star while side couples swing:
A2 Sides star, heads swing.

B1 All circle left.
B2 Keeping the circle joined, threes arch, ones lead through, then ones only
   separate and lead back round the outside, the others (including the threes)
   following under the arch.
ROUTINE: Chorus, Figure with each couple leading the “thread the needle’, final
   Chorus. The second and fourth time, sides “star first. The inside-out
   movement is known to American square dancers as “Rip ‘nt Snort'.

Lowisbery Square.