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| 1 | What’s happening here at Halsway? Something quite unique As the flowers bloom and the birds fly high It’s the Guildford Folk Dance Week. | 2 | They’ve come for the music and dancing For jigsaws and walks in the rain For the chance to play card games and scrabble And meet former friends once again. |
| 3 | The musicians have chosen their corner There’s Maggie, Tom and Hilary Such splendid rhythms would suggest A visit to a distillery. | 4 | With spinning, turning, diving, swinging, Chaining, casting and wheeling To a stranger’s eye the company’s In an orgy of mass reeling. |
| 5 | And who is Teacher’s pet monitor? His turn is lasting long With biceps and triceps a-ripple Gonga Din bangs away on the gong. | 6 | “Please Teacher can we start dancing?” “Perhaps if you behave Remember it’s a Folk Dance though And not a teen-age rave. |
| 7 | Remember that your right hand Is always on the right A right-hand star left handed Is not a pretty sight. | 8 | How are you at the bottom? I’d like it dignified Cast straight up the middle Don’t veer from side to side.” |
| 9 | Who is it that reads the caller’s mind Who plods ahead of the band Never heeding instructions Given by Royal Command. | 10 | Was that really a Shetland Reel? The Shetlanders must be reeling To see their figures re-aligned By dancers so unfeeling. |
| 11 | Deep discussions oft ensue Concerning every angle One could lose one’s partner fast With sets all in a tangle. | 12 | Who was it wrecked a workshop Like Philistine chieftain of old Destructing assembled formations With gestures so brazen and bold |
| 13 | Who tried to create a new duck pond With walking boots left outside Who lost her watch and ring and hat And unmentionable things beside. | 14 | Bowled over with excitement We invaded Bicknoller in hordes Scattering skittles with varying skills Clattering down the boards. |
| 15 | Halsway Olympics are over Tom, Marion and Ian struck gold Also our gongster Sir Leonard Long may the story be told. | 16 | So, with our brain cells well loaded We all scatter far and wide Trying to recall those figures Was it flutter, pass through or side? |
| 17 | On the side was it Grand Gypsy Or Hole in the Wall at the head Have I ticked the list for dinner Oh Boy! Am I ready for bed! |
18 | But no, it was not really perfect We must dance it all over again! But we will come back to Halsway When we get over the strain! |