Name: Hopping Down in Kent
Duration: P00H03M09S
Description: We heard an archive recording of Hopping Down in Kent and fell in love with the words and tune. This was the first song we recorded as a duo and both of us were really pleased with the result as we think it captures our sound completely. The track also features backing vocals from our daughter Lucy from when she was only four years old!

Hopping Down in Kent

from Even Keel - EP by Erin Brown & Barry Watson

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We heard an archive recording of Hopping Down in Kent and fell in love with the words and tune. This was the first song we recorded as a duo and both of us were really pleased with the result as we think it captures our sound completely. The track also features backing vocals from our daughter Lucy from when she was only four years old!

lyrics

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!

credits

from Even Keel - EP, released February 5, 2021
Erin Brown – fiddles, singing and stomping/bells
Barry Watson – accordions, whistles and singing
Lucy Brown (aged 4) – singing
Recorded and produced by Barry Watson
Trad. arr. Erin Brown & Barry Watson

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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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