From Dorothy Spicer, Selsfield, West Sussex.
From a tape recorded by Ken Spicer
Sussex Traditions https://sussextraditions.org/record/hopping-down-in-kent-2/
My Lovely Hops
From Mary Ann Haynes
Recorded by Mike Yates, Sussex, July 1974
Travellers, Topic Records 12TS395, 1985.
This is a parody of the Music Hall song ‘Our threepenny hop’, the chorus of which runs
At our threepenny hop, our threepenny hop;
Where the boys and girls are found
Hopping it round and round and round;
When you start a-dancing you never know when to stop.
It’s Hi! Hi! Go as you please, at our threepenny hop.
See https://folksongandmusichall.com/index.php/our-threepenny-hop/
Hopping down in Kent
From Mary Ann Haynes
Recorded by Mike Yates, Sussex, July 1974
Folk Music Journal, 1975, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp66-67; Travellers, Topic Records 12TS395, 1985.
This detailed transcription of the tune and its variations is as printed in the Folk Music Journal, although in practice it is quite likely that Mary Ann Haynes never sang the song the same way twice.