| Drive the Cold Winter Away | |
| for a line of as many couples as will. | |
| The top man is really the only active person, so having a huge line of couples is pretty silly. I think that using 4 couples would work best, though 3 might work as well in a pinch. | |
| Reconstructed by Dafydd Cyhoeddwr. | |
| Music: | Country Dances by the Broadside Band. This tape's version has an AABBBBx3 structure (the "B"s could just be very long, so really only BB), which should work with this reconstruction. |
| Part 1 | |
| Verse 1, Part A | |
| 1&2: | Forward a double and back. |
| Verse 1, Part B | |
| 1&2: | That again. Face your partner. |
| Chorus 1, Part A | |
| 1: | Man 1 does a double backward, while the rest of the men in a line begin a figure that they have four measures to complete. This is: go between the top two women, circle to the left around the top woman and come down on the men's side to meet man one. |
| 2: | Man 1 does a double down to end up in front of the second to last woman. |
| 3: | Man 1 turns the second to last woman quickly all the way around. |
| 4: | Man 1 turns the last woman all the way around and puts himself in her partner's place. The line of men should have met man 1 by now, forming an inversion of the men's line. |
| Chorus 1, Part B | |
| 1: | Man 1 does a double backward, while the rest of the men in a line do as before thus: go between the bottom two women, circle to the right around the bottom woman and come up on the men's side to meet man one. |
| 2: | Man 1 does a double up to end up in front of the second woman. |
| 3: | Man 1 turns the second woman quickly all the way around. |
| 4: | Man 1 turns his partner all the way around. The rest of the men should be meeting him here. |
| Part 2 | |
| Verse 2, Part A | |
| 1&2: | Side left with your partner. |
| Verse 2, Part B | |
| 1&2: | Side right with your partner. |
| Chorus 2, Parts A and B | |
| 1-8 | As Chorus 1, but the woman execute the parts. |
| Part 3 | |
| Verse 3, Part A | |
| 1&2: | Arm left with your partner. |
| Verse 3, Part B | |
| 1&2: | Arm right with your partner. |
| Chorus 3, Parts A and B | |
| 1-8: | As Chorus 1, men again executing the parts. |