In article l03130300b767d2912cfc@[194.222.239.177], Jack Campin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
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
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
--
Richard Evans
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