Dance Todlen Hame 6634
Jig · 32 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 213)
- Devised by
- Thomas (19C) Wilson (1816)
- Intensity
- 880 888 880 800 = 66% (1 turn), 50% (whole dance)
- Formations
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- Reel of four - across from/to sidelines (REEL;ACROSS;R4;SIDE;)
- Grand Chain for 6 (GCHAIN;6P;)
- Rights and Lefts (R&L)
- Figure of Eight - on side (FIG8;1C;SIDE;)
- Steps
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- Skip-Change
- Published in
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- Book 16 [6]
- Scottish Country Dances Books 13 to 18 (Combined A5 edition) [44]
- Pocket: Books 16,17,18 [6]
- 99 More Scottish Country Dances [90]
- A Companion to the Ballroom
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 9 [536] (diagram only)
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [707] (diagram only)
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [645] (diagram only)
- Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [614] (diagram only)
- Recommended Music
- Extra Info
Todlen Hame
“Todlen Hame” was, according to Robert Burns, “perhaps the first bottle song that ever was composed.”
When I’ve a Saxpence under my Thumb,
Then I get Credit in ilka Town:
But ay when I’m poor they bid me gang by;
O! Poverty parts good Company.
Todlen hame, todlen hame,
Coudna my Love come todlen hame.
Fair-fa’ the Goodwife, and send her good Sale,
She gie’s us white Bannocks to drink her Ale,
Syne if that her Tippony chance to be sma’,
We’ll tak a good Scour o’t, and ca’t awa’.
Todlen hame, todlen hame,
As round as a Neep come todlen hame.
My Kimmer and I lay down to sleep,
And twa Pint-stoups at our Bed’s Feet;
And ay when we wakn’d, we drank them dry:
What think we of my wee Kimmer and I?
Todlen butt, and todlen ben,
Sae round as my Love comes todlen hame.
Leez me on Liquor, my todlen Dow,
Ye’re aye sae good humour’d when weeting your Mou;
When sober sae sour, ye’ll fight with a Flee,
That 'tis a blyth Sight to the Bairns and me.
When todlen hame, todlen hame,
When round as a Neep ye come todlen hame.
In Scottish Songs Prior to Burns, Robert Chambers related the following amusing anecdote in regard to “Todlen Hame”. “It used to be a great favourite with the merry clubs of Edinburgh, and a gentleman named Balfour so charmed the fraternity of Golfers, by singing it in a characteristic manner, that they had his portrait taken by Raeburn, and hung up in the Golfers’ Hall at Leith. The position of the singer, with his thumb turned appropriately down upon the table, and his sly comic look, made this a picture of some value, irrespective of the fame of the artist.”
The song appeared in William Thomson’s Orpheus Caledonius of 1733, in Allan Ramsay’s Tea Table Miscellany and in James Johnson’s The Scots Musical Museum, Volume 3, of 1790.
Todlen Hame 3/4L · J32
- 1–
- 1c+2c Reel4 across, (1W+2M pass Lsh in middle to start) (2,1,3)
- 9–
- 2c+1c+3c G-Chain (2c cross at beginning)
- 17–
- 2c+1c R&L
- 25–
- 1c dance between 3c | cast up ; dance up between 2c | cast off to (2,1,3)
Todlen Hame 3/4L · J32
- 1-8
- 1s+2s dance a reel of 4 across the dance (1L & 2M pass LSh, 1M & 2L dance to their Left to start). 1s end in 2nd place. 2 1 3
- 9-16
- 2s+1s+3s dance Grand Chain
- 17-24
- 2s+1s dance R&L
- 25-32
- 1s dance down below 3s, cast up on own sides, dance up between 2s & cast to 2nd places on own sides. 2 1 3
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