Dance Willie's Rare and Willie's Fair 7173

Jig · 48 bars · 3 couples · Longwise - 4 (Progression: 213)

Devised by

Unknown

Intensity

440 888 888 800 808 880 = 66% (1 turn), 50% (whole dance)

Formations

Reel of three - 16b mirror, crossing (Gates of E) (REEL;DOUBLE;GE;R3;)
Hands round - 4 - and back (HR;4P;BACK;)
Rights and Lefts (R&L)

Steps

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

Published in

Miss Milligan's Miscellany of Scottish Country Dances [77]
99 More Scottish Country Dances [99]
Miss Milligan's Miscellany Volume II [38]
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 8 [744] (diagram only)
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 7 [683] (diagram only)
Scottish Country Dances in Diagrams. Ed. 6 [648] (diagram only)

Recommended Music

Willie's Rare and Willie's Fair (Traditional)

Extra Info

Willie's Rare And Willie's Fair

Willy’s rare, and Willy’s fair,
And Willy’s wond’rous bonnie;
And Willy heght to marry me,
Gin e’er he marry’d ony.

Yestreen I made my bed fu’ brade,
The night I’ll make it narrow;
For a’ the live lang winter’s night,
I lie twin’d of my marrow.

O came you by yon water side,
Pu’d you the rose or lily;
Or came you by yon meadow green,
Or saw you my sweet Willy?

She sought him east, she sought him west,
She sought him brad and narrow;
Sine in the clifting of a craig,
She found him drown’d in Yarrow.

To this very old and anonymous song William Stenhouse supplied an additional stanza that had been omitted from William Thomson’s Orpheus Caledonius, Volume 2, of 1733.

She’s taen three links o’ her gowden locks;
That hung down lang and yellow,
She’s tied them about sweet Willy’s waist,
And drawn him out of Yarrow.

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

	Name	Artist	Album	Media	Trk	Type	Time	Pace	Clip
	Willie's Rare and Willie's Fair	Muriel Johnstone's Band	Dance Through The Miscellanies - Second Part	CD	3	J48 8	7:08	35.7
	Willie's Rare and Willie's Fair	Muriel Johnstone's Band	A Dancer's Miscellany Vol III	MC	4	J48 8	7:08	35.7