This is dance #19213 in The Caller's Box, a contra dance database.

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Suckey Bids Me

by Traditional

interpreted by Kate Van Winkle Keller and George Fogg

Permission: full

FormationBase: Triple Minor
FormationDetail: Proper
Progression: Single
PhraseStructure: 2*4*2 + 2*8*2
Tunes: Sukey bids me

Figures:

A1

(4) Man one set to woman two

(4) Man one set to woman two

A2

(4) Woman one set to man two

(4) Woman one set to man two

B1

(4) Ones pass through across (1R)

(4) Ones cast down || Twos move up

(8) Ones two-hand turn 1 & 1/2

B2

(16) [Ones and twos] Square through 4 (PR;NL;PR;NL)

Appearances: Contra Dances from New Hampshire 1783, p 65