1. Lesson 2 Red River Valley (U.S.A.) Video Chapter IV Introduction Lesson Objectives Exercise 4.2

3. A popular square dance in America, dance accompanied with a song lyric. This dance is traditionally performed with one boy at the middle of two girls in each of three, but can also be performed with one girl at the middle and two boys at the sides. ABBREVIATIONS USED M – measure or measures Ct. – count Cts. – counts L – left R – right Lesson 2

5. Costume Music & Count Formation Figures Content Song

6. COSTUME: Girls - dressed in gay printed or checkered skirt and white blouse. Boys - denim trousers, checkered shirts and straw hats. One leg of the trousers may be rolled up to give a rustic touch. Content

7. MUSIC - composed of one part of sixteen measures COUNTING - one, two to a measure. Content

8. FORMATION - each set of three (two girls at the sides and one boy at the middle) faces another set of three. There should be an even number of sets. Eight sets make a convenient number but more sets may participate, if desired. O O O O O O O O X X X X X X X X O O O O O O O O Content

9. Red River Valley Song Verse 1 Now you lead right down to the valley, And you circle to the left and to the right. Now you swing with the girl in the valley, And you swing with your Red River Girl. Content

10. Verse 2 Now you lead right down to the valley, And you circle to the left and to the right. Now the girls make a wheel in the valley, And the boys do – si - do so polite. Content

11. Verse 3 Now you lead right down to the valley, And you circle to the left and to the right. Now you lose your girl in the valley, And you lose your Red River Girl. Content

12. Figure 1 Sing verse 1 (a) Dancers of each set join hands. Walk eight steps diagonally forward R, passing the opposite set by L shoulders and facing a new set (8 cts.). (4M) (b) Upon reaching the new set, all six join hands in a circle and walk four steps to L (4 cts.) and four to R (4 cts.). (4M) Content

13. (c) Each boy swings his partner at the R while the L partner stands still. (4M) (d) The boy releases the R girl and goes to the L partner and swings her. The right-hand girl stands still. (4M)

14. Figure 2 Sing verse 2 (a) Repeat figure 1 (a). (4M) (b) Repeat figure 1 (b). (4M) (c) The four girls of the two sets form a R hand star and walk eight steps clockwise. Finish in proper places (8 cts.). (4M) (d) The two boys perform do-si-do, passing by each other’s R shoulder first-four steps forward and four steps backward (8 cts.) (4M)

15. Figure 3 Sing verse 3 (a) Repeat figure I (a). (4M) (b) Repeat figure I (b). (4M) (c) The right-hand girls change places, passing by each other’s L shoulder, by taking eight steps. (4M) (d) The left-hand girls do the same, passing each other by R shoulders. (4M) Lesson 2