The Holmfirth Anthem, also known as Pratty Flowers (sic), Abroad for Pleasure and Through the Groves, is an English choral folk song associated with Yorkshire, especially the rural West Riding, and particularly with the area around Holmfirth.[1]
Despite its non-religious subject matter and its setting on a "summer's evening clear", the song has become part of the Yorkshire "village carol" or folk carol tradition, though it is also sung at other times of year.[2] It has Roud number 1046.
^"The Holmfirth Anthem or Pratty Flowers", Journal of the Folk Song Society, VI (1922), 9
^English Dance and Song (Journal of the Folk Dance and Song society), v.47-48 (1985), 16
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