And now, a whimsical addition!

(LAST OF THE) PRATTY FLOWERS
Nigel Parsons (music Ronnie Hazelhurst)

Abroad as I for pleasure walked,
Upon a summer's evening clear.
A beauteous maid I there beheld
Lamenting one most dear.

That fairest e'en that I saw thee
Forever with him I adore
Wilt thou go fight 'gainst France and Spain
And leave me thus my dear?

No more to those green banks we'll go
To watch the lambs, while peace we know
But I'll take thee to yon green fields
Where (the) pratty flowers grow

Written as a whimsy, keeping the meaning of the original, but adjusting to match the metre of the tune which most British television viewers will associate with Holmfirth. If (the) is included in the last line, it requires a 'grace note'
NP

for those who watched "Last of the summer wine", "Pratty Flowers" - the Holmfirth Anthem was sung by Compo when Seymour was sewing his trousers in the episode "Big Day at Dream Acres".