This is dance #17754 in The Caller's Box, a contra dance database.

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Cherokee Shuffle {3-part tune version}

by Tom Hinds

Permission: full

FormationBase: Duple Minor - Becket
Progression: Double
Direction: CW
PhraseStructure: 4*8*2 + 2*10*2
Tunes: Tommy Jackson's version of "Cherokee Shuffle"

Figures:

A1

(8) Circle left 1

(2) Shift left

(6) Circle left 3/4 [with N2]

A2

(8) N2 neighbor gypsy right

(8) N2 neighbor swing

B1

(8) In long lines, go forward and back

(8) N3 neighbor allemande left 1 & 1/2

B2

(16) Hey (WR;PL;MR;N3L;WR;PL;MR;N3L~)

C1

(4) N3 neighbor balance

(12) N3 neighbor swing

(4) Balance ring [with N3]

C2

(4) Petronella turn

(12) Partner swing

(4) Balance ring [with N3]

Calling Notes:

Tom Hinds writes: "Evidently a well known fiddler, Tommy Jackson took a tune, Lost Indian, changed the key and added tags in the B music and came up with a "new tune", Cherokee Shuffle. Chance McCoy, who plays/played with The Old Crow Medicine Show played a three part tune for me that is based on Cherokee Shuffle. He believes the version he knows is the original and I didn't see any good reason to convince him otherwise."
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