8 More Miles
Grandpa Jones 1941
  (Windsor 4872)   Bill Ball
 
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OPENER - MIDDLE BREAK - CLOSER    Basic

All four ladies star by the right full around the square
Turn your partner by the left, dosado with the corner there
Come back home box the gnat, pull her by I say
Left allemande, go forward two, go right & left that way
Turn back one, pull her by and you go left allemande
Dosado with your partner, then promenade that land
*She's the kind that you can't find a ramblin' through the land
I'm on my way this very day to win her heart and hand


FIGURE    Mainstream, corner progression

Heads (sides) promenade half way around and side (head) ladies chain
Heads (sides) to the middle, dosado go all the way around and then
You spin the top in the middle you do and when you're set to go
**Well turn thru, star by the left with the sides (heads) around you go
Go all the way around, men turn around and you go left allemande
Pass by one swing & whirl then promenade the land
I knew some day that I'd come back, I knew it from the start
Eight more miles to Louisville, the hometown of my heart


**Box the gnat, pull her by, star left around you go

ALTERNATE LYRICS

*From Portland east to Portland west, back along the line
I'm goin' back to the place that's the best, the old hometown of mine


*Eight more miles to Louisville, it's comin' into view
Eight more miles down the road, I'll never more be blue


TAG

Now I'm back in Louisville, I'll stay right here with you

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