Picking Up Sticks

Picking up Sticks is an English country dance for three couples in a line, recorded by John Playford in 1651.

Tune
This is NOT the tune for Picking up Sticks. This tune is called Lavena (also from 1651) and Cecil Sharp substituted the tune at the beginning of the 20th century.

Steps
reconstructed by Greg Lindahl

External sources

 * Picking up Sticks on The Traditional Tune Archive