When I was a kid in Perthshire, Scotland, The Grand Old Duke Of York was a simple dance. The boys and girls paired off and formed a double line, boys one side, partners on the other. When the music started, the first couple (usually nearest the band or record player) joined hands and skipped all the way down the line between the boys and girls. Everyone sang the song: "Oh, the Grand Old Duke of York, he had ten thousand men, He marched them up to the top of the hill and he marched them down again". The couple in the middle had now changed direction and skipped all the way back up to their original positions, they released hands and the boy skipped to the outside the boys' row, followed in a chain by the other boys, while the girl skipped to the outside of the girls row, followed by all the girls. When they got to the other end of the row, where the last couple had previously been, the first couple faced each other, joined hands and made an arch with their arms through which all the other couples, who had now joined hands, had to duck and pass through. So after all the couples had passed through the arch, the second couple were now at the top, the first couple were now at the bottom of the line and the entire thing started again. It sounded pretty tedious but the fun part was that the couple making the arch could try to bring their arms down around a passing couple and if they snared them, the only way out was for the snared couple to kiss! Lots of bribery and corruption took place and some of the guys used their soccer skills to dive to the floor to evade that snare.