====== The Geud Man of Ballangigh ======
As in "The Playford Ball"  \\  
Tune "Hunt the Squirrel"\\
Cecil Sharp, 1922\\
Duple minor Longways\\
Recording: {{ ::music:geud_man_of_ballangigh-068-bn12pb13.mp3.zip |}}\\
{{ ::music:hunt_the_squirrel_geud_man_of_ballangigh_--thp--047.mp3.zip |}}\\
{{ ::music:gaud_man_of_ballangigh--010.mp3.zip |}}\\
A different tune: {{ ::music:geud_man_of_ballangigh_a_new_scotch_jigg-bsbnd17.mp3.zip |}}

Video: http://dancevideos.childgrove.org/ecd/playford/215-geud-man-of-ballingigh
   
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A1 1-4 1st couple lead down between 2nd couple and cast up to place. 
   5-8 Two men lead out between women and cast back to place. 
A2 1-4 2nd couple lead up between 1st couple and cast down to place. 
   5-8 Two women lead out between men and cast back to place. 
B1 1-4 1st man set forward to 2nd woman {who does not set}, 
       and turn single to right, back to place. 
   5-8 1st woman the same to 2nd man. 
B2 1-4 Circle four-hands half-way and fall back in lines, 
       improper and progressed. 
   5-8 Partners set forward (5-6), and change places passing 
       right shoulder (7-8).
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====== The Guid Man of Ballangigh ======
Longways 
   
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   1st couple lead down between 2nd couple and cast up to places; 
   men lead through women and cast off to places. 
   2nd couple lead up between 1st couple and cast down to places; 
   women lead between men and cast off to places.
   1st man sets to 2nd woman and falls back to place turning single 
   (woman does not set, but may curtsey);
   1st woman sets to 2nd man and falls back to place turning single 
   (man does not set but must bow).
   1st and 2nd couples hands-4 half way round and fall back; 
   partners set forward and change places.
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In her biography of James V, Caroline Bingham discusses the stories 
of his incognito wanderings, Which are part of the popular history of 
Scotland and are very much more reminiscent of folktales than of biographical anecdotes.  
In the classic form of the old English tale, "The King and the Miller of 
Mansfield," several stories are told about James's meeting with a countryman, 
and identifying himself only as the "gudeman of Ballengiech [sic]"--
meaning a tenant in the hollow on the north side of Stirling Castle, his 
own residence. Credit for these stories may need to be given to Sir Walter Scott, 
nineteenth- century romantic and orchestrator of King George IV's
visit to Scotland in 1822, for which many of today's "authentic" Scottish 
traditions were invented. In the same decade, William H. Murray developed 
the story into a full-length play, Cramond Brig; o" the Gudeman O'Ballangeich.