The Three Musketeers

Source: Written in 2004 by Squash Beetle Morris. 

Tune:  La Marseillaise as A(AB)4 (A=figures, B=chorus). (abc pdf)


Formation: A set of 4, sticks.

Sequence: Once to Yourself, Up and out, Chorus, F-Gyp, Chorus, E-Gyp, Chorus, Pop-Tarts, Chorus.

Chorus:
Caller may call either vanilla or chocolate. Vanilla is default. Stick swings are in big roundhouses.

Vanilla: All move a step out from the set, tops turning to face down and bottoms turn to face up, and clash with neighbor up or down the set forehand high, forehand low; turn to face in, clash with partner forehand high, forehand low; all clash in the center forehand high, forehand low while rotating the circle clockwise 180 degrees; clash with partner forehand high, backhand high. Half hey. Repeat, completing the hey.

Chocolate: On the forehand high, forehand lows, either up and down or across the set, trade places with the one you are sticking with.

Ending: Face up on the last clash.


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