My Mom sang me this song and I have taught it to my daughters. I have never known anyone else that knew it before. We love it. It may be one of the first ways I learned about irony or perspicacity and understood what expressions like "when hell freezes over," although apples on a lilac tree is much more pleasant to the ear.

Just want to mention that I was as surprised as anyone to learn that there are such things as lilac trees. They are called Japanese Lilac trees, and there is an ancient beautiful one in our town that I know goes back at least three generations because a local grandma climbed it when she was a little girl at her grandpa's farm. I love it so much I went and planted one in my yard for our future generations. It is right next to our apple trees too, who knows what will happen?