Come Write Me Down:
Early Recordings of the Copper Family

CD Topic TSCD534, 5 November 2001

Bob and Ron Copper recordings from the 1950s and 1960s, plus tracks including their respective fathers Jim and John: making 27 tracks in all: plus two booklets containing notes from Reg Hall, Vic Gammon and Steve Roud. This is a Copper Family production made by Topic Records. All the recordings were made in the Central Club, Peacehaven, Sussex, at different times between 1 March 1951 and 1963.

1. Spencer the Rover (Bob & Ron)
   
2. Good Ale (Bob & Ron)
   
3. Thousands or More (Jim)
   
4. Babes in the Wood (Bob & Ron)
   
5. Banks of the Sweet Primroses (Bob, John, Jim & Ron)
   
6. Sweep Chimney Sweep (Bob & Jim)
   
7. Two Young Brethren (Bob & Ron)
   
8. Brisk and Bonny Lad (Bob & Jim)
   
9. The Month of May (Bob & Ron)
   
10. Honest Labourer (Ron)
    
11. The Birds in the Spring (Bob & Ron)
    
12. My Father Had an Acre of Land (Bob & Jim)
    
13. Shepherd of the Downs (Bob & Ron)
    
14. The Threshing Song (Bob & Ron)
    
15. The Seasons Round (Bob & Ron)
    
16. Sportsmen, Arouse! (Bob & Ron)
    
17. Hard Times of Old England (Ron)
    
18. The Lark in the Morning (Bob & Ron)
    
19. Warlike Seamen (Bob, John, Jim & Ron)
    
20. When Spring Comes In (Bob & Ron)
    
21. Brisk Young Ploughboy (Bob & Jim)
    
22. Cupid's Garden (Bob & Ron)
    
23. Dame Durden (Bob & Ron)
    
24. The Claudy Banks (Bob & Jim)
    
25. General Wolfe (Jim)
    
26. Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy (Bob & Jim)
    
27. Talking (Jim)
    
28. Come Write Me Down (Bob, John, Jim & Ron)

"When we looked down from those old hills, we saw nothing but farmland and the white cliffs and the sea. Now it's houses, houses, houses - on the land that we used to plough. I don't like it. In fact, there's only one thing that's come through from my young days unchanged, and that's our old songs. My brother John, who used to be a shepherd, and his son Ron, and me, and my son Bob, we still have a good old sing together when we get a chance." - Jim Copper says this on Come Write Me Down.