THE DASHING WHITE SERGEANT
as sung by Robert Wilson [HMV NZ B 10521 (OEA 17336)]
Link your hands for the circle round
Move your feet to the music sound
Back again to your starting ground
And that's the dance begun
The centres (parry) back to the right
Link their partners turning quite
The other partner, they invite
And that's the figure done
Weave and pass in figure eight
Arms akimbo, shoulders straight
Laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh
Let the rafters echo laughter
Now like (wavelets) of the sea
Forward, backwards, three by three
(Us imparting gaity)
To start again.
Do you ken Jim Barry from the (Ferrytoon)
Oh he's a roaring fiddler boy
When he wags his elbow in a rigadoon
The (stars and the ploos they) dance for joy
When his foot starts tapping in the jig or reel
Dance till ye drop, lass and loon
The whole world's at it, toe and heel,
With wee Jim Barry of the (Ferry toon)
Young ones, old ones, shy ones, bold ones,
Warm ones, cold ones, how they trippit
Nimble neat ones, two-left-feet ones
Sour ones, sweet ones, see them skip it.
Tinkers, tailors, soldiers, sailors,
Each with his loved one gaily prancing
Tom and Harry, Sue and Carrie
(How them --------) sets them dancing
Words I can't make out are in parenthesis.
--
Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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