Collected by Sabine Baring Gould from Adam Landry at Trebartha. Later on, Baring Gould and H. Fleetwood Sheppard got a set from Joseph Dyer at Mawgan-in-Pyder, which might explain why the text given in Songs of the West (revised edition, 1905) includes a verse not in Roy Palmer's English Country Songs (1979). Cecil Sharp found variants in Devon and Somerset, and more recently Fred Hamer published a set from Frank Rowe of East Cornwall (Garners Gay, 1967); that's the version of which Johnny Collins recorded an arrangement, mentioned earlier. I'm guessing at the moment that the version recorded by the Browns came from Ralph Dunstan's Cornish Song Book (1929); did they give any indication as to source on their record?

Roud Folk Song Index number 686. Hoop would be Whoop, incidentally, as in the Rowe set.