Here's the version from Ray Driscoll, including a reference to the sanitary arrangements:

When you go down hopping, hopping down in Kent
When it's raining every day, you'll wish you never went

Chorus with my ti-ay-oh, ti-ay-oh, ti ay ee ay oh.

They say hopping makes you lousy, but we know it isn't true
We only go down hopping to earn a bob or two

When we use the karsey, sitting on the pole,
You have to keep your balance or you fall back in the hole

They say you come home lousy sleeping in a tent
But we only go down hopping to help to pay the rent.

Monday is a washing day, to wash our shirts so clean
They wash them in the gallipot and hang them on the green.

When we come home from hopping, money all is spent
We get no now till we go next year, hopping down in Kent.

This is on his CD "Wild, Wild Berry".

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