File: biggarjackie06-oh-unclesparties_M.mp3
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JB: Jackie Biggar
JB: We'd used to go out to my uncle's place there; he'd have three or four parties a the summer, George milligan, we'd go there and play probably from 9 o'clock to 2 or 3 in the morning. They used to do a lot of swingin' years ago. A lot of people would go just to swing, and they'd start a square dance and you'd start swingin', and they'd just swing and swing and swing, and my God some of them could just go like 90 mile an hour, like good at it, it just came natural to them. That's what they'd do at the house parties. Probably 6 or 8 people would start the dance and they'd start swingin' and stuff; you had to play pretty sharp, they liked their's stepped up pretty good, eh. It was a lot of fun. We don't have them now, nobody would have them now. Nobody knows how to dance now, really cause all the older people are gone.. I remember the fun we used to have there, probably have a couple of quarts sittin' on the table, a box full of beer sittin' on ice, and the time they'd have. It was just the place to be. If you were a relative or a good friend you'd be there. Where else could you go? You'd have a big tub of lobsters, probably two or three bottles of bar clams, a bucket full of cold beer. A couple of quarts sittin' up there. You'd eat lobster and whatever else would be there. He used to fish lobsters this feller, eh. It was a lot of fun. Put the fiddle away for a while a while and tell jokes. And after the break was over, back at >er again! And then the party got so big, then he built a B a [shed] to build traps - he built her big enough to have a party in her. This is where he had the party. Christ, there'd be 20, 30 people in there at the last. And he'd have three or four of those a summer, maybe five or six.
