Dance Sleepy Maggie 6152

Reel · 32 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 213)

Devised by

Alexander Bowman (1758)

Intensity

840 808 844 866 = 66% (1 turn), 50% (whole dance)

Formations

Hands round - 4 (HR;4P;)
Hands across - 4 - and back (HX;4P;BACK;)
Set to and turn Corners (S&T;CRNRS;)
Reel of three - with corners & crossing (REEL;CRNRS;CROSS;R3;)

Steps

Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change, Slip-Step

Published in

Book 11 [5]
Scottish Country Dances Books 7 to 12 (Combined A5 edition) [53]
Pocket: Books 10,11,12 [17]
101 Scottish Country Dances [94]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [662] (diagram only)
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [608] (diagram only)
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [586] (diagram only)

Online Sources

http://www.highlandmistdancers.org/HM3goldenoldies.html#sleepy

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Extra Info

Sleepy Maggie

Chorus:
O! are ye sleeping, Maggie?
O! are ye sleeping, Maggie?
Let me in, for loud the linn
Is roaring o’er the warlock craigie.

Mirk and rainy is the night,
No’ a star’n in a’ the carry;
Lightnings gleam athwart the lift,
And winds drive wi’ winter’s fury.
O! are ye sleeping, Maggie &c.

Fearfu’ soughs the boortree bank,
The rifted wood roars wild and drearie;
Loud the iron yett does clank,
And cry o’ howlets makes me eerie.
O! are ye sleeping, Maggie &c.

Aboon my breath I daurna speak,
For fear I rouse your waukrife daddie;
Cauld’s the black upon my cheek,
O! rise, rise, my bonnie lady!
O! are ye sleeping, Maggie &c.

She opt the door, she let him in;
  He coost aside his dreeping plaidie;
Blaw your warst, ye rain and win’,
  Since, Maggie, now I’m in aside ye.
Now since ye’re waking, Maggie!
  Now since ye’re waking, Maggie!
What care I for howlet’s cry,
  For boortree bank, or warlock craigie.

This song was written by Robert Tannahill. (See also “The Highland Plaid”) The editor of The Lyric Gems Of Scotland says in a note in regard to “Are Ye Sleeping, Maggie”: “Tannahill wrote this beautiful song to the air of an old song with the same title, the words of which are now deservedly forgot. This song was originally finished without the last verse, but on one occasion, while entertaining his friends with it, Mr. James King asked the author, ‘Why dinna you let the drookit deevil in?’ The next night the author produced the concluding verse, but from its wanting the poetic fervour of the first verse it was never meant to be made public; however it has always been printed.”

From “Scotland Dances”, by Eugenia (Jeannie) Callander Sharp (Used by permission.)

Name	Artist	Album	Media	Trk	Type	Time	Pace
Sleepy Maggie	Luke Brady's Scottish Dance Band	Take Your Partners For Vol 3	CD	1	R32 8	4:50	36.2
Sleepy Maggie	Terpsichore	Terpsichore, Scottish Dance Music	CD+	9	R32 8	4:38	34.8
Sleepy Maggie	Alasdair Fraser & Muriel Johnstone	Just As It Was - Sampler	CD	5	R32 8	4:39	34.9
Sleepy Maggie	Alasdair Fraser & Muriel Johnstone	Just As It Was 2	CD	11	R32 8	4:39	34.9
Sleepy Maggie	Alastair Hunter & the Lorne Scottish Dance Band	Book 11.	LP+	5	R32 8	4:37	34.6
Sleepy Maggie	Willie McRobert's SCDB	Live in Moffat	CD	15	R32 4	2:25	36.2
Sleepy Maggie	John Renton and his Scottish Dance Band	Book 11. Music for 12 Scottish Country Dances	CD	5	R32 8	5:10	38.8
Sleepy Maggie	Lindsay Ross & his Scottish Dance Band	The Original Lindsay Ross	CD	18	R32 5	2:48	33.6
Sleepy Maggie	Lindsay Weir and her Scottish Dance Band	Celtic Steps	CD	5	R32 5	2:32	30.4
Sleepy Maggie	Lothian Scottish Dance Band	Something to Celebrate	LP+	5	R32 8	0:00	0.0

Sleepy Maggie 3/4L · R32

1–: 1c+2c circle4 to the left ; 1c set | cast off (2c up)
9–: 1c+3c RHA ; LHA, 1c finish facing 1cnrs
17–: 1c set to and turn corners, finish facing 1cnrs
25–: Reels3{6} with cnrs (Lsh to 1cnr), 1c cross RH (2,1,3).

E-cribs

Sleepy Maggie 3/4L · R32

1-8: 1s+2s circle 4H round to left, 1s set & cast 1 place
9-16: 1s+3s dance RH across & LH back (1s end facing 1st corners)
17-24: 1s set & turn 1st corners, set & turn 2nd corners
25-32: 1s dance reels of 3 on opposite sides giving LSh to 1st corners & cross to places

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