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Subject: Re: [scots-l] Northumbrian tunes (was Whinham's Reel)
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In article <l03130300b767d2912cfc@[194.222.239.177]>, Jack Campin
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>> Apparently there's a genre of songs made up of song (or tune) titles.
>> Here's the first verse: (Query: What's a "hopping"? [...]
>> The Souters o Selkirk and Stannerton Hopping
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>There is an early-19th-century song about hopping in Kent, i.e. the
>hop harvest: same kind of deal as the berryfields of Blair, you got
>and still get people from all over going to it. The tune is "The
>Blythsome Bridal", I think, and the text is put together in the same
>way - colourful description of farmworkers partying. So if they grow
>hops at Stannerton, wherever that is (could it mean Stannington near
>Morpeth?), that might be what it's about.
A lurker unlurks:
A "hopping" is a fair. There's a big fair on Newcastle Town Moor every
summer simply known as "the hoppings"
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Richard Evans
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