Beginners’ Guides:
Fun with Folk

Hop, Hop, Hop 

This song was collected from Richard Hall of Itchen Abbas.  The song tells of a gardener and ploughman discussing which of them is of greater value to society.

 Hop, hop, hop to the butcher’s shop

 I dare not stay no longer

 For if I do my mother will say

 I’ve been playing with the girls down yonder

 Chorus         Early in the morning, early in the morning

                    Early in the morning, before the break of day

 I’ll tell my ma of our Mary Ann

 Going down the street with a nice young man

 Laced up boots and a feather in her hat

 That’s the way she gets her chap

 I made you look, I made you stare

 I made the barber cut your hair

 He cut it long, he cut it short

 He cut it with a knife and fork

 Sam, Sam the dustbin man

 Washed his face in a frying pan

 Combed his hair with a donkey’s tail

 Scratched his belly with his big toe nail

 You know last night and the night before

 Three tom cats came knocking at the door

 One had a fiddle, one had a drum

 One had a pancake stuck to his bum

Additional Online Resources available by clicking on tabs at top of page

• Audio recording  
• Animation Created by children at the Blackpool City Learning Centre
• Lyric Sheet