Subject: Tam O' Shanter, a children's dance
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:15:03 -0500
From: Deirdre MacCuish Bark <barkd:rogers.com>
To: <strathspey:strathspey.org>

               Tam O' Shanter,  40 bar Jig for 4 couples
1-8
  1M dances across set, behind iW, in front of 2W, behind 3W across below 3rd
  couple, up behind the men's side to place.
9-16
  1st couple slip down the middle and up
17-24
  2s, 3s and 4s circle and back.
25-32
  All chase counter clockwise
33-40
  2s,  3s  and  4s  make a bridge for the 1s to go under to the bottom of the
  set, for the last 4 bars, the new 1st couple turns by the right hand.

Story to go with the dance:

1-8   Tam looks for his horse
9-16  Tam and horse ( Meg) ride for home
17-24 Witches dancing ( one is a really good dancer)
25-32 Witches chase Tam and Meg
33-40 Only way to escape witches  in  18th  century  Scotland  was  to  cross
      running water, so Tam and horse escape over a bridge. Leading witch was
      a fast runner as well as a good dancer and she grabs  the  horses  tail
      and pulls it off.