> 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. =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
