duple proper longways

   A   Back to back with partner (1-4),
       Two-hand turn with partner (5-8) 
   B1  Men dance a half figure 8 through the women (first man leads),
       Circle left once around, clapping on first step before taking hands. 
   B2  Women dance a half figure 8 through the men (first woman leads),
       Circle left once around, clapping on first step before taking hands.

See an animation of this dance.

Recordings: juice_of_barley-073-bnecd-05.mp3.zip
juice_of_barley--016.mp3.zip
cold_and_raw_or_juice_of_barley--036.mp3.zip

Juice of Bar

A modification of this traditional dance helps to avoid the inevitable “hurry up” at the end. In fact, the traditional dance is almost undanceable (well) except by young, fit professionals. To keep the spirit and feel while making it comfortable, in B1 and B2, simply circle HALF. To give guidance for the crossing half figure 8 moves, I suggest that the TOP person leads. This is man 1 and woman 2. — nashjc 2015/02/13 21:09

The Dancing Master 1689
Cecil J. Sharp 1916
Duple Minor longways

Al 1-4 All back to back right shoulder with partner.
A2 1-4 All turn partner with both hands once round.
Bl 1-4 1st and 2nd Men (1st Man crossing in front of 2nd Man) half figure
       8 through 1st and 2nd Women.
   5-8 All clap own hands together once and circle to left once round
       (slipping step).
B2 1-4 Ist and 2nd Women (1st Woman crossing in front of 2nd Woman)
       half figure 8 through 1st and 2nd Men.
   5-8 All clap own hands together once and circle to left once round
       (slipping step).

Nicolas Broadbridge 1995
Sicilian circle
Couple facing couple, 1at couples facing anticlockwise.

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.

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