When they go for the pre-Breakfast walk up the hill at Val and Holly's... I'd never heard the song before and I was wondering if anyone knows anything about it (title, author, where I can get the lyrics). I'd google it myself but I left the show with a friend and I don't remember it that well.
Arthur (1981)
Susan: Arthur, take my hand.
Arthur: But that would only leave you with one!
One day later, I have done a little research, as the right words came back to me. It is by Robert Lucas de Pearsall. http://www.answers.com/topic/robert-lucas-de-pearsall?cat=entertainment
I have some lyrics:
'Oh, who will o'er the downs so free,
Oh, who will with me ride,
Oh, who will up and follow me,
To win a blooming bride?
Her father he has locked the door,
Her mother keeps the key;
But neither bolt nor bar shall keep
My own true love from me.'
That is the verse used in the series. I found additional lyrics in an online text of E. Nesbit's The Story of the Amulet, but as I've had trouble finding a legitimate lyrics page for the song, I'm not sure if they are authentic:
'I saw her bower at twilight gray,
'Twas guarded safe and sure.
I saw her bower at break of day,
'Twas guarded then no more.
The varlets they were all asleep,
And there was none to see
The greeting fair that passed there
Between my love and me.'