[SCA-Dance] ly bens/parson's

[Charlene Charette]

Jane & Mark Waks wrote:
 >> How do people in the East Kingdom finish Parson's Farewell?  One set of
 >> instructions suggests doing two circular heys, but the original sounds a
 >> bit different.
 >
 > Hmm. Don't recall a circular-hey version, but there are again 
competing reconstructions. (Indeed, I published two back-to-back in the 
Letter of Dance.) Locally (and I think more generally in the East), we 
do Baron Patri's reconstruction:

If by "circular hey" you mean the two couples face each other and start 
by reaching across, then that version comes from Cecil Sharp.

--Perronnelle

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