Normal plus a double-speed chorus on the end.
(Ax2+B)x6. A is 4 bars, B is 6 bars.
"Where oh where has my highland laddie gone? | He’s gone to the wars with his frilly knickers on."
(Tip to middle clashing with final forehand clash. The clashing pattern is (odds hit evens twice then evens hits odds twice [total 1 bar]) x 2 then (odds hit evens once then evens hit odds once [2 beats]) x 2 then odds hit evens once more [1 beat] then slide Rh hand to Lh and do a simple forehand clash up [on 4th beat of 4th bar]) x2
The alternative name, ‘Bluebell’, comes from the tune which is based on ‘Bluebells of Scotland’.
In Ch 2 & 5, the top 4 dancers clash along the sides instead of with partners. In Ch 3 & 6, the bottom 4 dancers do so. [Source = the Adderbury itself when we danced with them at Owlswick’s Stow on the Wold day of dance.]
A common variation to the song is to update “frilly knickers” to “tartan Y-fronts” [it is still naff though].
Learnt as part of Lagabag Morris’s dance repertoire.
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