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Greenwich Park

Playford's Dancing Master of 1698.
Adapted by Cecil Sharp in 1922.
Proper duple minor dance.
Tune: Greenwich Park

   A1    8  First couple lead up for eight, and turn to face
         6  Lead down
         2  and go outside seconds, who move in and up
   A2   16  Second couple repeat all that
   B1    8  First couple pass right and go below
         8  ..then turn crossed-hands 1 1/2 while moving up the middle
   B2    8  Partners back to back
         4  Clap hands with partner (own, rights, own, lefts)
         4  First couple cast, second lead up

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZFLCEYdBN4

Greenwich Park

Thompson 1779
Longways for three couples

Al 1-4 1st couple cast below the 2nd couple, 2nd couple moving up
     5-8 All two hand turn partners
A2 1-4 1st couple, giving nearest hand to 3rd couple (gates) lead
       through the 3rd couple and cast back to the middle
   5-8 1st couple repeat leading up and cast to middle
Bl 1-8 1st and 3rd couples right hand star and back with the left hand
B2 1-4 1st and 2nd couples right and left through (four changes). 
   5-8 1st couple lead to the bottom as the 3rd couple cast up.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPwfHNFwq7w
Greenwich Park is the oldest of London's nine royal parks, first enclosed by
the Duke Humphrey of Gloucester as a hunting ground in 1433.

COME SWEET LASS, OR GREENWICH PARK
Jeremiah Clarks lovely song “Come Sweet Lass, or Greenwich Park” may have been among those inserted in William Mountfort's theatre piece Greenwich Park, published in 1691. The park itself had been laid out by Le Notre during the reign of Charles II.

ins_greenwich_park.txt · Last modified: 2025/06/30 03:50 by mar4uscha