Frank Hinchliffe's fine Yorkshire accent seems to have misled the transcriber of The Pear Tree. The line he sings in verses 2 and 4 isn't -

"One of the pears that pleas-ed me"

but

"Wonnot the pears that pleas-ed me"

i.e. It was not the pears that pleas-ed me

It makes sense that way too.

Georgina