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  • "Stomp" dance style of dancing
  • Singers in the middle, water drum and horn rattles
  • Couples of men and women pair up, men on the inside
  • Women place their arms through the bowed arm at the side of the men
  • The song begins the lead singer on the bench gets to the middle of the song and sings yo', the dancers return with ye
  • The lead dancer then takes over and continues with yo' ho' followed by all male dancers with wi ha' the lead dancer then has to finish with a holler continuing on.
      
To hear sample of Alligator Dance in MP3 format, click the following:

Song 1
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