'Twas The Night Before Christmas | (Riverboat 1211) Jack O'Leary |
OPENER - MIDDLE BREAK - CLOSER Basic - SSD Week 4
Sides face, grand square
*'Twas the night before Christmas and all thru the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there
Four ladies promenade, one time around
Swing your man and promenade the track
**With Mom in her kerchief and I in my cap
Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap
MIDDLE BREAK LYRICS
*Now Dasher, now Dancer, now Prancer and Vixen
On Comet, on Cupid, on Donner and Blitzen
To the tip of the porch, to the top of the wall
Now dash away, dash away, dash away all
...
**So up to the house-top his coursers they flew
With a sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too
CLOSER LYRICS
*He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf
And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle
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**But I heard him exclaim 'ere he drove out of sight
"Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!"
FIGURE Mainstream, corner progression
Heads (Sides) promenade, halfway you go
Walk in square thru 4 hands you know
Go all the way then a right & left thru
Turn that girl do an eight chain 6 ... (COUNT 'em now)
. . . . . . . . Swing the next and promenade
*The children were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads
ALTERNATE LYRICS
*When out on the roof there rose such a clatter
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter
*And then in a twinkling I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing...
TAG
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!