| Set: | 3 couple longways (ish). |
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| Music: | Mr. Cunningham's Maggot (own tune). |
| Trivia: | Written as a blatant ripoff of moves from other dances that the author liked (hence "parrot"), concentrated into one dance. |
| The music is broken down into 24 beats for the figures and 8 for the choruses. Starts in two lines either side of the set.
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| Figure 1: | Lead on | |||
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| 1-8 | 1&2 come on in a clockwise looping arc (as in Hard Ground fig 1). | |||
| 9-16 | 1&2 arm turn right, ending on the side of the diagonal they started on. 3&4 loop clockwise round 1&2 (ending in front of 1 and 2 respectively).
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| 17-24 | 1,2,3&4 star right, moving twice round, ending where they started. On beat 24, as the salutes are dropped, 1&3 and 2&4 keep right hands joined as they separate from the other couple, falling back into wrist hold. 5&6 loop clockwise around the star almost once, ending facing each other across in the middle of lines of 3 (without taking wrist grip), splitting the other two couples.
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| Chorus 1 | ||||
| 1-3 | Lines pass right shoulder. | |||
| 4 | Back turn. | |||
| 5-7 | Lines come back together, shouting in each others faces on 7. | |||
| 8 | Bounce back slightly into lines.
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| Figure 2: | Slow stomach turns | |||
| 1-4 | All stomach turn once and a quarter to wrist hold. | |||
| 5-8 | Pull by. 1 and 2 curve to their right to come back in on other end of line. 3&5 and 6&4 stomach turn to wrist hold once around, falling back along the line again.
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| 9-12 | 3&5 and 6&4 pull by. 2&5, 3&4 and 6&1 stomach turn to wrist hold once around, falling back along the line again. | |||
| 13-16 | Pull by. 5 and 6 curve right to the other end of the set. 2&4 and 3&1 stomach turn to wrist hold once around.
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| 17-20 | 2&4 and 3&1 pull by. 6&4 and 3&5 stomach turn once and a quarter, finishing making right-handed arches with 3 and 4 facing out (towards the nearest end) and 5 and 6 facing in towards the middle. 2&1 stomach turn once around to wrist hold. | |||
| 21-24 | 2&1 pull by through arches, and loop right to join middle of lines
of 3. Others drop back from arches into wrist hold on beat 24.
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| Chorus 2 | ||||
| Starts with 4&6 and 5&4 pulling by as 2&1 have momentum. At the end: | ||||
| 8 | Bounce to your left and turn right to face the person you shouted at, in a line of 6.
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| Figure 3: | Zig-zag | |||
| 1-10 | Zig-zag hey for 6. 1 and 2 don't back turn on 10. | |||
| 11-16 | 1&2 lead a loop to the right one quarter to meet in a line across the set. Others switch to normal single stepping and follow once they reach the end of the zig-zag. Beat 16 (and ideally 15) will have a line all facing the middle.
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| 17-24 | Lines zig-zag through each other. When 1 and 2 reach the other end they bend right and lead the lines to end up parallel lines, turning to face other line on 24.
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| Chorus 3 | ||||
| At the end: | ||||
| 8 | Bounce to your left and turn right to face the person you shouted at, in a line of 6, taking wrist hold.
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| Figure 4 | Quick stomach turns | |||
| 1-2 | Pull by. 3&6 and 5&4 half stomach turn to wrist hold. 1 and 2 do a small loop to the right to come back in again.
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| 3-4 | 6&3 and 4&5 pull by. 1&3, 6&5 and 4&2 half stomach turn to wrist hold.
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| 5-8 | Repeat 1-4 (in same places). | |||
| 9-10 | Repeat 1-2, but 1 and 2 start a loop right one quarter round the set. | |||
| 11-12 | 6&3 and 4&5 pull by. 1 and 2 continue loop coming in on other axis. 3 and 4 start a loop left one quarter round the set. 6&5 stomach turn just one quarter and fall back to wrist hold.
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| 13-14 | 6&5 pull by. 1&5 and 6&2 half stomach turn to wrist hold on new axis. 3 and 4 continue loop finishing at end of new line. | |||
| 15-16 | 5&1 and 2&6 pull by. 4&1, 5&6 and 2&3 half stomach turn to wrist hold.
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| 17-24 | Repeat 9-16 from new positions (4 and 3 looping right and 1 and 2 looping left),
except on 24 everyone only stomach turns one quarter before falling back to wrist hold.
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| Chorus 4 | ||||
| 1-4 | As before, starting with everyone pull by. | |||
| 5-8 | Pass partner in other line right shoulders (without shouting). Finish with a hoy, facing out in 2 lines.
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