'Flash Company', or 'Yellow Handkerchief', is a song popular throughout East Anglia, so what better way to celebrate the charms of Essex girls (and boys) than something like this?

Flash Company (New version)

Once I was pale as the lily that grows,
But now I've a tan that like neon glows;
I rode naked on a roller coaster one day in Southend
With one hundred and two flash companions and all bosom friends.

I took off my yellow handkerchief, and all of my clothes,
I was naked from my neck right down to my toes.
Flash company all around me to raise money galore.
Its thanks to flash company that we raised so much more.

Travelling by roller coaster was my great delight,
And the ups and the downs, sure they were a grand sight;
There were big ones, and little ones, they all went whirling around,
And thanks to them all we raised twenty-two thousand pounds.

I took off my yellow handkerchief, and all of my clothes,
I was naked from my neck right down to my toes.
Flash company all around me to raise money galore.
Its thanks to flash company that we raised so much more.

Matthew Edwards