Playford's Progeny

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====== Green Sleeves and Yellow Lace ======
3 couple longways proper\\
Playford 1721. \\
Douglas and Helen Kennedy 1929. \\
Tune: Greensleeves and Yellow Lace\\
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A1 1-4  1st couple set and cast into 2nd place, 2nd couple move up.
   5-8  2nd couple the same.
A2 1-4  Again 1st couple set and cast and 2nd couple move up.
   5-8  2nd couple set and turn single upward (1s stay put).
B1 1-8  1st man figure-8 through 3rd couple (anticlockwise round woman), 
        1st woman (starting after her partner)
        figure-8 through 2nd couple (clockwise round man). 
B2 1-8  First couple individually do full figure eights through the other ends (to their lefts),
        ending passing each other right shoulder to the centreline and face right.
A3 1-8  1st man hands-3 with 3rd couple 1 1/2, 
        while 1st woman the same with 2nd couple; 
        1st couple pass R shoulder, 
A4 1-8  Hands-3 at opposite ends of set; 
        1st couple pass R shoulder and go into 2nd place.
B3 1-8  1st man hey with 3rd couple (passing 3rd woman L) while
        1st woman hey with 2nd couple (passing 2nd man L).
B4 1-8  1st couple hey at opposite ends, 
        1st couple lead down to 3rd place, as the 3rd couple moves up.
Da capo, 2nd couple leading; then 3rd couple.
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See an [[http://www.dancekaleidoscope.org.au/dance.html#Greensleeves|animation of this dance]] [[Image:SvgLogoSmall.png]].


The dance takes its title from the first line of the third
verse of a lyric collected by David Herd in the 1760

**LVII Green Sleeves.**\\
Green sleeves and pudden-pyes, come Tell me where my true love lyes\\
Green sleeves and yellow lace, Maids, maids, come, marry apace!


**GREEN SLEEVES AND YELLOW LACE**\\
Several versions of a dance to "Green Sleeves" were
published in this period. "Green Sleeves and Pudding
Pies" appears in DM I: 1686-1716. Walsh borrowed it
for his 1718 publication, so John Young replaced the
dance figures in his 1721 edition and changed the title. It
is this latter dance, with some modifications, that the
Kennedys chose to reconstruct. Feuillet published a much
simpler dance in his Recuéil of 1706, calling it "Les
Manches Vertes," and Pat Shaw reconstructed this dance
in the 1960's. The tune "Green Sleeves" had many 
names in the eighteenth century, most prominent among
them being "The Blacksmith” Of Which nobody can 
deny,”