| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-4 | (a) | One schottis step in LOD (M starts with L, W with R foot), one schottis step RLOD. Drop handhold, and dance 4 step hops back to back to switch places, ie W dancing slightly into circle and moving in LOD while M dance outside the circle and move one place in RLOD. Reform closed circle as at the start, ie with M facing out. |
| 5-8,1-8 | Repeat (a) 3 times. On last beat of final repeat, M turns over R shoulder and reforms circle, M are now facing into the circle. | |
| 9-10 | (b) | 4 sidesteps CW in circle. |
| 11-12 | With 4 step hops, M dances behind the W to his L, and reforms the circle again having moved one place in RLOD. Meanwhile, W continues in RLOD with 4 small sidesteps. | |
| 13-16,9-16 | Repeat (b) 3 times. | |
| 1-2 | (c) | One schottis step away from each other, M moving into circle, W moving out of circle. One schottis step towards a new partner, ie the W 'behind' in the RLOD <1>[or in front in LOD, but all must do the same]. W dance the schottis step diagonally forward to meet a new M. |
| 3-4 | 'New' coupes take closed waist-shoulder hold and dance 4 step hops turning CW (two full turns), . | |
| 5-8,1-8 | Repeat (c) 3 times. | |
| Repeat from (a) as desired. |
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Song text:
Vill Du komma till mej?
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Won't you come to me? Lie down here beside me? Raidi raidi raidi raidi raidi raidi raaa I won't do anything Look but not touch Raidi raidi raidi raidi rallanllaa Then once you have fallen asleep Deeply and completely asleep Raidi raidi raidi raa raidi raidi raidi raaa Then my little Greta You won't know what's happening... Raidi raidi raidi raidi raidi raa |
See YouTube video.
This was one of the combined dances at Nordlek 2003 in Næstved.
Printed source: Swedish description prepared for Nordlek 2003.
See also: Stockholmsschottis i tre turer from ACLA.
Note: the above translation reflects the way the dance was actually taught for the 'samdans' at Nordlek 2003.
The description for Nordlek above has part (a) danced only once, parts (b) and (c) danced twice.
Translation: Laine Ruus, Oakville, 2011-10-11, rev. 2021-06-16.
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