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====== Shepherd's Holiday ======

Video: https://vimeo.com/78835324\\
Recording: {{ ::music:shepherds_holiday-068-bn12pb03.mp3.zip |}}\\
{{ ::music:shepheards_holyday_or_labour_in_vaine-bsbnd02.mp3.zip |}}\\
Longways for Six; in three parts (1st Ed., 1650).\\
Adapted by Cecil Sharp in 1912

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First Part.
A1  1–4  All lead up a double and fall back a double to places (r.s.).
    5–6  Partners change places (r.s.).
A2  1–4  All lead down a double and fall back a double to places (r.s.).
    5–6  As in A1.
B1  1–2	 M1 and W1 slip in front of M2 and W2 respectively.
    3–4	 M3 and W3 slip behind M2 and W2 respectively.
    5–8	 M1, followed by M2 and M3, casts off to his left and 
         moves round in a circle to his place; while 
         W1, followed by W2 and W3, casts off to her right 
         and does the same (skip?).
B2  1–2	 M3 and W3 slip in front of M2 and W2 respectively.
    3–4	 M1 and W1 slip behind M2 and W2 respectively.
    5–8	 M3, followed by M2 and M1, casts off to his right and 
         moves round in a circle to his place; while
         W3, followed by W2 and W1, casts off to her left 
         and does the same (skip?).
Second Part.
A1  1–4	 Partners side (r.s.).
    5–6	 Partners change places (r.s.).
A2  1–6	 All that again to places.
B1  1–4	 Men take hands, move forward a double and 
         fall back a double to places; 
         while the women do the same (r.s.).
    5–8	 Men hands-three; while women do the same.
B2  1–4	 Same as in B1.
    5–8	 Men hands-three, facing outward; while women do the same.
Third Part.
A1  1–4	 Partners arm with the right.
    5–6	 Partners change places (r.s.).
A2  1–4	 Partners arm with the left.
    5–6	 Partners change places (r.s.).
B1  1–2	 M1 man changes places with W2 (r.s.).
    3–4	 M2 changes places with W1 (r.s.).
    5–8	 M3 and W3 cross over and cast up to places of W1 and M1 
         respectively (skip?)
B2  1–2	 W3 changes places with M2 (r.s.).
    3–4	 W2 changes places with M3 (r.s.).
    5–8	 W1 and M1 cross over and cast up to places (skip?).
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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW9uMOVJPJk&t=2s\\
The Shepherd's Holiday. The alternate title “Labour in Vain” was also the name of an old tavern in England, whose sign was “illustrated by a woman with a Negro child in a tub, whom she is endeavouring to scour white” (Hackwood, 1909).
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