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Thread #5232   Message #123209
Posted By: lamarca
12-Oct-99 - 08:15 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Calico Printer's Clerk
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Calico Printers Clerk
The dance names mentioned in the song were popular dances of the Nineteenth century; one description is at a Web site here:

The "Waltz Circassian" may have been a variant of the Circassian Circle Dance - anyway, I liked the way the song gives the actual names of real dances from the 1860's...