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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m not sure if our American friends will realise it, but the name is a pun on the “Vickers Machine Gun”, one of the main weapons used by the British Army in the First World War (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_machine_gun">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_machine_gun</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jeremy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Callers [mailto:callers-bounces@lists.sharedweight.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Edmund Croft via Callers<br><b>Sent:</b> 17 August 2015 22:58<br><b>To:</b> callers@sharedweight.net<br><b>Subject:</b> [Callers] Misplaced a dance...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Valerie Young is looking for a dance featuring ladies' chains all over the place, then circles and pass thrus to get your partner back. As she came across it in the USA, it's unlikely to be the one I know, which is by ex- Cambridge (UK) dancer/choreographer Jacob Steel, unless someone exported it, having danced it at the Inter-Varsity Folk Dance Festival.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The story Jacob uses for this one is that clergy are not permitted to use certain sorts of weapon, so this particular gun fires ladies rather than bullets:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><b>THE VICAR’S MACHINE GUN (R32) Becket<span class=apple-tab-span> </span>Jacob Steel</b><br>1-8<span class=apple-tab-span> </span>Circle left ¾ and pass through up and down<br><span class=apple-tab-span> </span>Circle left ½ and the men roll their neighbour across to change places<br>9-16<span class=apple-tab-span> </span>Ladies chain on the right diagonal. LCh across<br>17-24<span class=apple-tab-span> </span>LCh on the left diagonal. Ladies pass RSh into half a reel of 4 across<br>25-32<span class=apple-tab-span> </span>Balance and swing partner.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Edmund Croft,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cambridge Folk of various sorts<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>