It is further generally believed that the ramblers were all on a chapel choir outing, from one of the towns in the industrial West Riding".
Dr Arnold Kellett reports the traditional belief that the song "came into being as a result of an incident that took place during a ramble and picnic on the moor. "On Ilkley Moor without tha (your) hat" idiomatically "On Ilkley Moor without (i.e. The title is seen in various transcriptions of the dialect, but is most commonly On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at, i.e. In The Yorkshire Dictionary (Arnold Kellett, 2002) it was said the song ( i.e., the lyrics) probably originated from the Halifax area, based on the dialect which is not common to all areas of Yorkshire. This will in turn result in his burial, the eating of his corpse by worms, the eating of the worms by ducks and finally the eating of the ducks by the singers. The singer chides the lover for his lack of headwear – for in the cold winds of Ilkley Moor this will mean his death from exposure. The song tells of a lover courting the object of his affections, Mary Jane, on Ilkley Moor without a hat ( baht 'at). It is classified as numbers 218 in the Roud Folk Song Index. According to Andrew Gant, the words were composed by members of Halifax Church Choir "some 50 years after Clark wrote his melody", on an outing to Ilkley Moor near Ilkley, West Yorkshire. It is sung in the Yorkshire dialect, and is considered the unofficial anthem of Yorkshire. "On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at" ( Standard English: On Ilkley Moor without a hat) is a folk song from Yorkshire, England.
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