Hot Country Dancing
When the sun goes down on a long working day
I grab my darling and we go out to play
We'll scoot our boots to our favorite country song
You're all invited, we hope you'll come along
With the hot country dancing
It's easy when you learn to do it right
Hot country dancing
Get some booze stompin' then I'm straight tonight
With the hot country dancing
It's easy when you learn to do it right
Hot country dancing
Get some booze stompin' then I'm straight tonight
That was the new Hot Country Dancing, Romp and Stomp!
Now here's the Romeo written by Dolly Parton.
Hey, can't you guys do the Romeo?
Hey, I don't know anyone who can do the Romeo. I can't. Can you?
No, I can't find anyone to teach me the real Romeo.
Well, I can teach you the Romeo.
Hey, aren't you Melanie Greenwood?
Didn't you choreograph the Romeo for Dolly Parton?
Yes, I did.
Would you teach it to us?
I'd be happy to. Come on, let's have some fun.
I'll just watch first.
Are you ready?
Yeah.
And you folks at home follow along and you'll be doing the Romeo in no time.
Here we go. Everybody starts with their right foot.
You step right and hitch left. Doing a quarter turn to your left, you step left, stomp up right.
Come back to the front doing a quarter turn to the right, step apart, apart, together, together.
That's your first count of eight. Let's do that to counts.
One, hitch two, three, stomp four, apart five, six, seven, eight.
That's your first eight. Now let's do the second count of eight.
Your right foot is free. You step to the side, cross back, step a little bit farther and pull the left to the right and drop your heel.
Now you're going to do a spin on your left foot. You step left and as you spin to the left, you're going to drop your left heel two times.
Drop, drop, step.
Let's do that count of eight again.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Now let's put those two counts of eight together.
One, hitch two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four, five, turn six, seven, eight.
That's your first two counts of eight. Now let's go to the third count of eight.
You have come down on your right. Your left is free.
You do a series of toes. You do your toe to the front with the knee and the toe turned out.
One and two. Now you do the same thing to the back except crossing and the right toe.
The next toes you are going to be going to the side and your toe and knees are turned in.
Left and right. And the last thing you do is do a quarter turn to your left and do a heel to the front.
It's your only heel. And toe back.
That is your third count of eight. Let's do that to counts.
You have toes one and two, back and three and four.
To the side turned in five and six. Quarter turn to your left. Heel seven and eight.
Now let's go on to the fourth count of eight. But I will turn my back so you can follow along.
You have just done heel and toe. Your right foot is free.
You're going to step on a diagonal to the front and push the hip to the right.
Push, change your weight back to your left. Push, back and corner again and change it to the left.
Then you're going to place your right foot to the side touching it and do a full circle to the right.
Right, right and then sink into the left. Let's do that to counts. Here we go.
One, two, push, three, four, circle five, six, seven, eight.
Now let's put the third and the fourth count of eight together.
You start with your toes. Toes one and two. To the back and three and four.
To the side turned in five and six. Quarter turn, heel seven and eight.
You push one, two, push three, four, hip goes to the right, five, six, seven, drop eight.
Now that's the third and fourth count of eight. Now let's put the whole thing together. Here we go.
One, hitch two, quarter turn three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, step three, pull four, turn five, six, seven, eight.
One and two and three and four and five and six and seven and eight.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Well that's the Romeo. I hope you enjoy doing it on the dance floor.
You know what? I have a special surprise. You can do the Romeo with a partner.
So I'd like to introduce my partner. Pedro.
Hi Melody.
Hi. We're going to show you how to do the Romeo with your favorite partner.
First you start left to left, right to right. And you start with the beginning step.
You step right, hitch left, right arm comes over the lady's head, step and stomp.
And then it comes back over her head for the apart, apart, together, together.
Now ladies, you're going to turn to the right instead of doing a vine.
You step one, turn two, three and four.
Gentlemen, you turn to your left. Five, six, seven, eight.
From here you do your series of toes. You toe front.
Now you're going to turn to the right, going back.
And you keep turning and you go side and side.
Now gentlemen, you're going to start moving to the left side of your lady.
And ladies, you're going to move to the right side of your gentleman to do your heel and toe.
Then you come around for the push and push and the circle and sink.
Alright, let's do that one more time. Everything counts.
And one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four.
Gentlemen, turn. Six, seven, eight.
Your toes. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
That's the Romeo.
Now before we do it with some music, I'd like to let you know that you can also do the Romeo with Hey Baby by Marty Stewart.
And Get In Line by Larry Boone.
So enjoy doing the Romeo.
Ready to do the music?
Yeah.
Here we go.
Five, six, seven, eight.
Across between a movie star and a hero in a book, Romeo comes hunting him and everybody looks. Cause he's just got that special thing that everybody needs and everybody wants him. But not as bad as me. Hey Romeo, where are you?
Where are you?
Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, don't dance with me. That sexy little body, feet tall I've never seen. I ain't never seen a cowboy look that good in jeans. My temperature keeps rising every time we need. I may not be in love but I'm in need.
Romeo, Romeo, I just know I'll get you yet. Romeo, Romeo, I want to be your do-it-yet.
Here he comes, girl. So step it high, step it low, step it out of there. Step to the side, let it slide, and step it up again. Step on toes, in on toes, step in as you please. But I'm one step away from love so don't step out on me.
Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, with the magic feet.
Check, check, check, check, check it out.
Step it high, step it low, step it out of there. Step to the side, let it slide, and step it up again. Step on toes, in on toes, step in as you please. But I'm one step away from love so don't step out on me.
Romeo, Romeo, I just know I'll get you yet. Romeo, Romeo, won't you be my do-it-yet.
Romeo, Romeo.
I'm old enough to be that boy's lover.
The next dance we're going to learn is called Breaking the Bank, and it's done to a John Anderson tune called Money in the Bank. I hope you like it. Here we go.
Everyone starts with their left foot. You do a toe in and a heel. Step, toe, in, and heel. You do two stomps, finishing down, and heels out, in.
Let's do that again to counts. One, two, and three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Now this next count of eight, the first step is a little tricky. I want to show it to you for those of you who might already know how to do it. It looks like this.
For those of you who can already do it, that's great. For those of you who can't, let's break it down.
You're traveling to the right. Your accent with your toes and knees are out. They go out and you bend at the same time. Pull them in and straighten.
Out, out, out, out. Okay? You think you got that? That might take a little practice, but keep on practicing. You'll get it.
Let's do that again. You have out, out, out, out. You finish the second count of eight with a side cross back, side touch.
Let's do that one more time to counts. You have one, and two, and three, and four, five, six, seven, touch back, eight.
Let's put the first two counts of eight together. Here we go. You have one, two, and three, four, stop, five, six, heels, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, touch back, eight. All right. You ready for your third count of eight? Here we go.
Your right foot is back. You're going to step right and hitch left, then step left and touch back right.
Again, step. Now your left foot is going to start out and then go in, in, and finish with a hitch. Okay? Let's do that to counts.
One, two, three, four, five, and six, seven, eight. That's the third count of eight. Here's the fourth.
You have finished with a hitch. You step left, do a quarter turn to your right and step. Do a pivot turn, half.
And then from there, you pull your left end to your right, lifting your right heel. And then your left heel, right, left.
And you start all over again. Let's do that again. Here we go to counts. You have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
That's your fourth count of eight. Let's put the third and the fourth together. You have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, hitch, eight.
One quarter turn, two, pivot, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. That's breaking the bank. But there's something different about this dance.
I put in a step called a break. Hence, breaking the bank. I want to show you that break step.
You're going to do the complete line dance, what I just showed you, twice, all the way through. And then you'll do this.
You're going to push off, leaning to your left, and push off. Lean to your right, and push off.
And then from there, you're going to brush your left foot and step, step. Let's do that again. You push left together, right together, brush left, right.
All right? Now, this is the last part of your break. Your left foot is free after you've done brush, step, step.
You do a kick, ball change. You're going to do a quarter turn to your left, where the knee opens and the knee closes.
Let's do that again. A kick, ball change, open the knee left, and right closes in, which makes you turn a quarter turn.
Kick, ball change, open, close. Kick, ball change, open, close. Kick, ball change, open, close.
From there, you start all over again. That's your complete break.
Now, what's fun about doing the break, after you've done your line dance twice, and just before you go into the break, it's a rule.
We made it a rule. You have to yell, break, before you do it.
So I think that we're about all the way through. Let's do break in the bank, completely through, adding your break.
Here we go. You have one, two, and three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, and two, and three, and four, five, six, seven, touch, eight.
Step, hitch, step, touch, step, to the front, and hitch. Step, quarter, turn, pivot, step, five, six.
You're going to do it again. Now, let's pretend you've done it twice, and go right into our break.
So you've gone five, six, seven, and on the eight count you're going to yell, break, into push from the left, right, brush, step, step, kick, ball change, open, close.
Now, this step takes two counts of eight to finish. That's one eight. And kick, ball change, open, close.
Okay. That's the whole break in the bank. I think we're ready for some music, don't you? Let's give it a shot.
Five, six, seven, eight.
I wish I had a basketball and a Z28.
But I guess that stuff will have to wait. Cause I'm saving on a washer and a wetting rack. I want this stuff to be your last two things.
Right at the top of that's where you rank. Honey, your love's better than money in the bank.
Oh, you make me feel like a million bucks. Oh, I want to drive you around in an armored truck.
Late last night I had a crazy dream. I met a man who invented a money machine.
He said, I know things are tight and times are tough. But he'd give me the machine if I give you up. I just looked him in the eye and I said, no thanks. Honey, your love's better than money in the bank.
Honey, your love's better than money in the bank.
The next dance I'm going to teach you originated right here in Nashville, Tennessee. It's called the Sweetheart Shottish. It's a great fun partner dance.
Now I'm going to teach you the actual Sweetheart Shottish and three variations. Now you need a partner for this dance, so I'd like you to meet Gordon.
Hi, it's going to be my partner to teach you the Sweetheart Shottish. Are you ready? Let's start. Left to left, right to right.
Everybody starts on their left foot. You step to the side, cross back, side with a scuff. Ladies, then you're going to turn to your right.
One, two, three with a scuff. Now to the left, ladies, crossing again in front of each other and a turn to the right. One, two, three, scuff.
Let's do that one more time. Left foot starts it. One, two, three, scuff. Left arm comes up. Left and then the right and the right.
That's the first part of the Sweetheart Shottish. Let's go on to the second part. You have finished with a scuff.
You then do a step, scuff and a step, scuff, moving forward. Then back up. Two, three, scuff and a step, scuff. Back up. One, two, three, scuff.
Let's do that section one more time. You have just finished a scuff. You travel forward. Step, scuff, step, scuff. Back one, two, three, scuff, step, scuff. One, two, three, scuff.
And you continue on. Let's go into our first variation. You have finished with a scuff. You do a step, scuff, step, scuff.
You walk back three steps, face each other as the right arm comes up over the lady's head. One, two, three. Then you kick right, step and left.
Then one, two, three. You've pulled apart and a kick. All right. From there you do your turns. One, two, to the right, ladies. Scuff. Then to the left and to the right.
Let's do that variation one more time. You've finished with your scuff. You do step, scuff, step, scuff. Back one, two, face each other. Kick, kick, pull apart. Two, three, kick.
And to the right, ladies, you turn. Scuff. To the left and to the right. That's your first variation. On to the second.
You have finished with a scuff. With a step, scuff, step, scuff. Ladies, you do a half turn on your three walks. Scuff. Continue around each other with a scuff. One, two, three, scuff.
You've changed places. Now, ladies, you're going to turn to your left. One, two, three, scuff. Guys, you turn to your left. One, two, three, scuff. And ladies, you turn to your right. One, two, three, scuff.
That's the second variation. How about a third? We start with a step, scuff, step, scuff. You pull apart and a half turn. Ladies, then pull together. Step, scuff.
Then a one, two, three, scuff. All right, let's do that much one more time. With a scuff, step, half turn. One, two, you pulled apart. You pull in on the step, scuff. Pull apart. Two, three, scuff.
Now, here comes your turns again. Ladies, you're going to turn to your left. And gentlemen, your arm is going to go back behind your back. One, two, three, and he changes hands.
Now, from here, ladies, you're going to turn to your left, going in front of your guy. And gentlemen, you change hands again. Your last turn is a one, two, three, scuff.
Let's do that one one more time. You have a scuff, step, scuff, step, scuff. You pull apart with a half turn, ladies. Pull in, scuff.
Goes behind your back, guys. Change hands. Turning to the left, change hands again.
That's your third variation. Let's put them all together. Here we go.
Starting with your left foot. One, two, three, scuff. One, two, three. You're facing each other. The left arm. Ladies, turn to the right.
Back up. One, two, three, scuff. Again. Turning to the left. The left arm comes over the lady's head. Now the left and then the right.
And turning to the right.
Into the first variation. One, two, three, you kick. Step, kick. One, two, three, kick. Turn to your right, ladies. To the left.
And to the right.
Here's the second variation. Half turn.
Continuing the circle.
Turn to the left, ladies. Gentleman to the left. And to the right.
Last variation. Pull apart. Pull together.
Change hands, guys. Change hands again.
That's the Sweetheart Shotish. And you know you can also do it with other music. If you want a slower tempo, dance to Honky Tonk Crowd by Marty Stewart.
A medium tempo, dance to What a Woman Wants, Lori White. And a fast tempo, Trouble on the Line by Sawyer Brown. Let's do it with music. Here we go.
They say that there's a hole in the atmosphere. The things you think will last just disappeared.
You were ready to say I do. Somebody lowered a boom on you. Now you need a sympathetic ear. So baby tell me about it. Tell me about tear drops in the dark.
Tell me about it. Tell me you're about to blow your heart. You say you need someone to hold you tight. You can't stay another lonely night. Well come closer and tell me about it.
Love isn't always true. It hurts sometimes. Your tears will tell on you girl I'm not blind. I know what you're going through. I graduated from high school too.
Tell me about it. Tell me you're about to tear drops in the dark. Tell me about it. Tell me you're about to blow your heart.
You say you need someone to hold you tight. You can't stay another lonely night. Well come closer and tell me about it.
Love isn't always true. It hurts sometimes. Your tears will tell on you girl I'm not blind. I know what you're going through.
If you need someone to hold you tight. Tell me about it. Tell me you're about to tear drops in the dark. Tell me about it. Tell me you're about to blow your heart.
You say you need someone to hold you tight. You can't stay another lonely night. Well come closer and tell me about it. Tell me about it. Tell me you're about to tear drops in the dark.
Tell me about it. Tell me you're about to blow your heart.
The next dance I'm going to teach you is called the Nashville Hip Hop. Now right off the bat I want to tell you there are a couple of kind of difficult steps.
We're going to start with one right now because it's in our first count of eight. This step is called the Roger Rabbit. Here we go.
We're going to start off with your right foot coming into your left which lets your left heel come forward.
Then you kick your left foot back behind you. Then you bring it in underneath your right heel. Your right heel is released and kick. Under the left kick. Under the right kick.
It looks like this done quickly.
That's the Roger Rabbit and that's in our first count of eight. Are you ready? Let's start from the top.
Everyone starts with their right foot. You jump to your right to the front picking your left up to the back.
Then jump to your left bringing your right around to the back. You jump to your right kicking your left foot to the front.
Then you jump to your left. From there you go into your Roger Rabbit. You pull in underneath your left foot. Kick. Under the right kick. Under the left kick. Under the right.
Let's do that again. You have one, two, three, four, five, and six, and seven, and eight.
That's your first count of eight. On to the second. Your right foot is free. Your weight is on your left foot.
You're going to do a shuffle to the right. And then a scuff left. Bring it around and into a wide step and stomp up.
Then you go into a hip. One slow and two fast. Let's do that again.
From here your weight is on your left foot. Right foot is free. Shuffle to the right. One and two. Scuff. Three and four. Hips. Five, six, seven, eight.
Have you got that so far? Well let's put our first count of eight and our second count of eight together. Here we go.
Starting with the right foot you go. One, two, three, four, five, and six, and seven, and eight. One, and two, three, and four, five, six, seven, eight.
Are you ready for your third count of eight? Here we go.
You've finished with your feet apart and you've just finished your hips. You do a shuffle to the left.
And another scuff. The scuff comes around to a wide position and you finish with your knees bent.
From here, this is another one of our little difficult steps. You lift your right toe and your left heel like such.
Reverse it. And reverse it again. Do it twice on the right.
Okay, let's try that again. You do your shuffle to the left. Shuffle, scuff, and bend your knees.
Lifting your right toe, left heel to the right, left, right, and right.
That's your third count of eight. We're on to our fourth and the final count of eight. Here we go.
You have finished just like this. Your right toe up, left heel up. You're going to do a three quarter turn.
Step around and you're turning to your right. You land with your left foot flat.
Now, our next step is another one of our little difficult steps. It's called the Runny Man.
I'm going to turn my back and you follow along and I'll teach it to you broken down to its easiest way possible to learn.
Here we go. All right, so you've stepped on your left foot. You're going to slide your left foot back.
Slide. Now, your weight's on both feet and you're going to hop on your right, pulling your left knee up.
Hop. Slide your right back, putting your left down, then you hop on your left foot, pulling your right knee up.
Slide, hop. Slide, hop.
That's the Runny Man. That's in our last count of eight. So here we go.
After we have finished our last step here with our right toe up, our left heel up, you do your three quarter turn.
You do step, three quarter turn, put your weight on your left, then you slide, hop, slide, hop.
Then you stomp down with two hips to the left. All right, that's the fourth count of eight.
Let's do that again with counts.
Three quarter turn, one, two, three, and four, and five, six, seven, eight, and one.
Now let's put our third count of eight and our fourth count of eight together.
You start with your shuffle to the left. One and two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Turn one, two, slide, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, one.
Start all over again.
Now I think what we need to do is put the whole four counts of eight together from the top. Here we go.
From the top with the right foot, you have one, two, three, four, five, and six, and seven, and eight.
One and two, three, and four, hips five, six, seven, eight. Shuffle one and two, scuff three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Three quarter turn, one, two, three, and four, and five, six, seven, eight, one.
And you start all over again. That's the Nashville hip hop.
By the way, this is a great dance for losing weight.
Also I'd like to tell you, besides doing it to the Kentucky Headhunters Muddy Waters,
you can also do the Nashville hip hop to Gonna Make You Dance by C&C Music Factory
and Rock This Town by Brooks and Dunn.
Well, are you ready to do it with music? Here we go.
Five, six, seven, eight.
Last night there came a flood, now the river's up and I can't get across to my baby.
I've got to tell her that I love her, for the Muddy Waters gonna wash our love away.
My baby put me down, and she's on the bank with a man in a fishing pole.
My baby put me down, now she's on the bank with a man in a fishing pole.
I've got to tell her that I love her, for the Muddy Waters gonna wash our love away.
Well, well, Muddy Water.
Well, well, well, Muddy Water.
Well, well, Muddy Water.
Well, well, well, Muddy Water.
I've got to tell her that I love her, but that Muddy Water doesn't wash our love away.
Hey!
Woo!
Today the sun is shining, river's down, but still can't get to my baby.
Woo!
Today the sun is shining, and the river's down, but still can't get to my baby.
Woo!
I've got to tell her that I love her, but Muddy Water doesn't wash our love away.
Well, well, Muddy Water.
Well, well, well, Muddy Water.
Well, well, Muddy Water.
Well, well, well, Muddy Water.
I've got to tell her that I love her, but that Muddy Water doesn't wash our love away.
Woo!
The next dance I'd like to teach you is a fun new dance I love to do.
It's called the Hot Country Dance and Romp and Stomp.
This dance is called a mixer.
What happens is all the guys get in a circle with their backs to the circle facing out.
All the ladies then make a big circle around the gentleman facing in.
We're going to do a series of four counts of eight, and what happens is ladies, you keep changing partners.
So it's a great way to meet different people while you're dancing.
All right, so Pedro's going to help me. Here we go.
You start with the left foot, ladies, right, gentlemen.
You do a heel and pull back, a heel and front.
You do a shuffle to the left, ladies, right for you gentlemen, and then the other way.
Let's do that again to the counts you have.
One, two, three, four, five and six, seven and eight.
All right, your next count of eight looks like this.
You kick across your standing leg, ladies your left, gentlemen your right.
Then you step facing each other and do a heel and heel.
From there you're going to be doing a shuffle turn.
Ladies, you turn to your left, gentlemen your right.
Five and six, then step seven, stomp eight facing your partner.
Let's try that again.
One, two, three, four, five and six, seven and eight.
Kick one, two, heel three and four, turn five and six, seven, stomp eight.
Very good. Let's go on to the third count of eight.
Here we go.
Ladies with your left, gentlemen your right.
You're going to go to each other's right shoulder.
You have step one, hitch two, step back three, stomp four, change shoulders.
Five, hitch six, seven, stomp eight.
All right, let's try that again.
That's your third count of eight.
And one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
One more count of eight. Here we go.
What happens is, ladies, you change places with the guys.
You go under your right arm, gentlemen, your left.
You do a shuffle.
You shuffle underneath.
One and two, on the right, three and four.
Now, gentlemen, you just do the same thing.
Five and six, ladies, you go to your next partner.
And that's the romp and stomp.
Let's do that section one more time.
Let's put the third count of eight and the fourth count of eight together.
That starts with a step and hitch going to the shoulders.
Here we go.
And one, two, three, stomp four, five, six, seven, stomp eight.
Shuffles one, two, three, four, five, six.
And you go to the next partner, ladies, already.
Okay, let's do it all the way from the top.
Ready, Pedro?
Let's do it.
Here we go.
And one, two, three, four, five, and six, seven, and eight.
Kick one, two, heels three, and four, turn five, and six, seven, stomp eight.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Shuffle under, ladies.
And gentlemen, to your next partner.
All right, that's a real fun dance.
Again, it's called the Hot Country Dancing Romp and Stomp.
So let's do it with some music and watch the Hot Country Dancers doing it just for you.
Here we go.
Ready?
And.
We sure had a good time kicking up our heels.
All right.
Thanks for joining us in Learning the Romeo and four other great dances.
We've had a lot of fun and we hope to see you Hot Country Dancing.
We'd like to thank John Anderson at B&A, Kenya Tucker and Liberty Records,
Delbert McClinton at Curb, and the Kentucky Headhunters with Mercury Records,
and especially Ms. Dolly Parton for the use of the Romeo dance.
We also like to thank our sponsors, Stetson Hats, Mo'Betta Shirts, American Plains Jeans,
Chambers Belt and Laredo Boots.
Yeah.
Hot Country Dancing.
It's easy when you learn to do it right.
Hot Country Dancing.
It's a boot stomping dinner stretch tonight.
Woo.
Oh, my God.
All right.