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Even Keel - EP

by Erin Brown & Barry Watson

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1.
Now some say hopping's lousy I don't believe it's true We only go down hopping To pick a hop or two With a tee-I-o, tee-I-o, tee-I-ee-I-o. Now when I went a hopping Hopping down in Kent I saw old Mother Riley A-sweeping out her tent Now every Monday morning Just at six o'clock You'll hear old hoppers calling Get up and boil your pot Now Sunday is our washing day Don't we wash it clean We boil it in our hopping pots And hang it on the green Now do you want any money? Yes, sir, if you please To buy a hock of bacon And a pound of mouldy cheese Now here comes our old measurer With his long nose and chin With his ten gallon basket And don't he pop 'em in! Now here comes our pole-puller He does come around He says get up you dirty ol' hop pickers Come pick 'em off the ground Now hopping is all over All our money’s spent And don't I wish I never Went hopping down in Kent!
2.
Logy Bay 05:30
Ye ladies and ye gentlemen I pray ye lend an ear While I locate the residence Of a lovely charmer fair The curling of her yellow locks First stole my heart away And her place of habitation Is down in Logy Bay 'Twas on a summer's evening This little place I found I met her aged father Who did me sore confound Saying if you address my daughter, I'll send her far away And she never will return again While you're in Logy Bay How could you be so cruel as To part me from my love? Her tender heart beats in her breast As constant as a dove Oh, Venus was no fairer Nor the lovely month of May May Heaven above shower down its love On the star of Logy Bay Her father rose next morning And went to St. John's town He engaged for her a passage On a vessel outward bound He robbed me of my heart's delight And sent her far away Which left me broken-hearted For the star of Logy Bay Oh, now I'll go a-roaming I can no longer stay I'll search the wide world over Until my dying day I'll search in vain through France and Spain Likewise Americay 'Til I do sight my heart's delight The star of Logy Bay Now to conclude and finish The truth to you I'll tell Between Torbay and Outer Cove 'Tis there my love did dwell The finest girl ever graced our Isle So everyone did say May Heaven above send down its love On the star of Logy Bay
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4.
Robin Tulloch he married a wife Hobbety bobbety how-now She turned out to be the plague of his life With a hey-down, ho-down, duffle green petticoat Robin he curses her now now She never gets up till twelve o’clock Puts on her gown and above it her smock She sweeps the floor but twice a year Because she says the brooms are too dear She milks the cows but once a week And that's what makes her butter so sweet And when she churns she churns in a boot Instead of a paddle she uses her foot She puts the cheese upon the shelf And leaves it there till it turns itself It turns of itself and it fell on the floor Got up to its feet and ran out the door It ran till it came to Wakefield Cross And she followed after upon a white horse This is a song for women and men If you want anymore you must sing it again
5.
On the night that I was married and in my marriage bed There came a bold sea-captain and he stood at my bedhead Saying, arise, arise young wedded man this night for to go with me To the low lowlands of Holland to fight the enemy. Oh, I held my love all in my arms, still hoping he might stay, When the captain he gave another order and we had to march away, Saying, there's many a blithe young married man this night must go with me To the low lowlands of Holland to fight the enemy. But Holland it is a wondrous place and in it grows much green 'Tis a wild inhabitation for my true love to be in. Where the leaves they grow and the winds they do blow and strange fruit grows on every tree 'Tis the wild wild lands of Holland where twined my love and me. No shoes nor stocking I'll put on nor comb to go through my hair And nor shall day or candlelight shine on my bower fair Nor shall I sleep with any young man until the day I die For the lowlands of Holland they parted my love and I.

about

Even Keel is the first of a series of EPs being produced by the duo ahead of folk club and festival events in 2021/2. It is a collection of music recorded during the turbulent summer of 2020 on Erin & Barry’s widebeam narrowboat.

Dedicated to our precious little Jamie River

Tracks-
Hopping Down in Kent
Logy Bay
Doodle Oak Cloggers/Dolia/Peat-Fire Flame
Hobbety Bobbety How-Now
The Lowlands of Holland

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released February 5, 2021

Erin Brown - fiddles, singing and stomping
Barry Watson - accordions, whistles, piano, bouzouki and singing
Lucy Brown (aged 4) - singing on Hopping Down in Kent
Recorded and produced by Barry Watson
All tracks trad. arr. Erin Brown and Barry Watson except Doodle Oak Cloggers (Jonny Dyer)

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Erin Brown & Barry Watson Ely, UK

Erin Brown & Barry Watson offer lively renditions of traditional folk music featuring vocals, fiddle, stomp box and accordion (plus occasional appearances from whistles and bouzouki). Songs and tunes are taken from England, Ireland, Scotland and further afield, but the accompaniment is typically stompy and English, with the odd syncopated Breton rhythm thrown in for good measure. ... more

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