Yankee Twirl / Chain Thru | (Square 'N Round 504 side A) Les Gotcher |
Walk all around your left hand lady
See-saw 'round your own little Taw
Heads go forward, come on back
Yankee-Twirl across the track
California Twirl, hear me man
Lead to the right, left allemande
Here we go right and left grand
Hand over hand right and left grand
Then you promenade go around the town
Just keep on going and don't slow down
Just back right out and make a big ring
Circle to the left and hear me say
With the lady on the right, Half Sashay
Lady on the right, California Twirl
Lady on the right a Half Sashay
Lady on the right, California Twirl
Lady on the left, a left allemande
Here we go right and left grand
Hand over hand right and left grand
Every other girl in every other hand
Then you promenade that's what you do
Get along home go two by two
Heads right and left thru, turn the girl
Side two couples a Yankee-Twirl
Head two couples a Yankee-Twirl
Side two couples a California Twirl
Head two couples California Twirl
Side two couples a Yankee-Twirl
Head two couples a Yankee-Twirl
Side two couples a California Twirl
Head two couples California Twirl
Two and four right and left thru
Heads go forward, come on back
Square thru Three Quarters Jack
"U" turn back and Star Thru
"U" turn back and Star Thru
"U" turn back and Star Thru
Allemande left with your left hand
Here we go right and left grand
Then you promenade go two by two
Get along home that's what you do
Four ladies chain across the way
One and three do a Half Sashay
All circle left, here's what you do
Stop right there, the men pass thru
Separate now and go around one
Yankee-Twirl to a line of four
Bend the line, a right and left thru
Cross-Trail back and there you are
Allemande left and a allemande thar
Do a right and a left and form a star
Gents back up in a right hand star
Shoot that star with a full turn around
Turn the corner a right hand around
Men Yankee-Twirl across the town
California Twirl with the same girl
Then promenade go around the World
Heads wheel around, Yankee-Twirl
Move on to the next, Yankee-Twirl
Move on to the next and pass thru
Bend the line, cross-trail man
There's the corner, left allemande
Here we go right and left grand
Hand over hand right and left grand
Then you promenade go around the town
Keep on going and don't slow down
Heads wheel around Star Thru
Then Dive Thru---Now Pass Thru
Right and left thru the outside two
Turn on around and Dive Thru, Pass Thru
Right and left thru and turn your Sue
Star Thru---Chain thru---Pass Thru
Allemande left with your left hand
Here we go right and left grand
Every other girl in every other hand
Then you promenade and leave the floor
That's all there is, there ain't no more
Yankee Twirl: With two men facing across from each other join Left hands and pull by. Gents then join Right hands to the ladies Left hand, he makes an arch, and the ladies make a Left Face turn under the arch to end standing by the gents Right side and both are facing out, or back-to-back with their original partner. The moment the gents leave their position to join Left hands, the ladies should take one step sideways to their Left to stand in the same position the man has just vacated. The change accomplishes the same thing as "Heads ladies chain, heads pass thru". If the call is for all four couples to work or for all four gents to work together, they make a Left hand star in the center and go across the set and do the same thing as is described above.
Chain Thru: This is a new and useful figure used to change the ladies and eliminate an awkward courtesy turn at the end of the chain. Ladies designated will touch right hands and cross to the opposite gent, passing right shoulder to right should with each other, of course (as in ladies chain). With Right hands the gents take ladies Left hand and turns her under his right, a Left Face turn for the ladies, and she is standing by his right side and both are facing into the center of the set. Same as in a ladies chain except that there is no courtesy turn at the end. If the call is for All Four Ladies to do a Chain Thru, the ladies make a right hand star and go across the set and do the same thing as described above.