This is dance #3581 in The Caller's Box, a contra dance database.

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Merry Haymakers

by Traditional

Permission: full

FormationBase: Sicilian Circle
FormationDetail: Improper
Progression: Single

Figures:

A1

(8) As couples, go forward and back (along the set)

(8) Circle left 1

A2

(8) Partner promenade across (along the set)

(8) Right and left through with partner (along the set)

B1

(8) Ladies chain to neighbor (along the set)

(8) Ladies chain to partner (along the set)

B2

(8) As couples, go forward and back (along the set)

(8) Pass through along (NR)

Appearances: The Contra Dance Book, p 115
American Country-Dancing Volume 1: Twenty-Eight Contra-Dances (Burchenal), p 5 ("The Haymakers", "The Merry Haymakers")
French 1893, p 81
Howe 1858, p 89
Howe 1862, p 94
Schell 1890, p 57
OtherNames: Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself
Haymakers