I have words & music of this song, "The Old Apple Tree in the Orchard", but am looking for background--where's it from, etc. To remind you, I may as well post the words.

O the old apple tree in the orchard
Lives in my memory;
It reminds me of my Pappy,
He was handsome young and happy
When he planted the old apple tree.
[chorus]
Say G'bye, say G'bye,
Say G'bye to the old apple tree
[repeat lines 3-5; this happens with each stanza]

Then one night Pappy took widow Norton
Out on a jamboree
When he brought her home at sun-up
Brother Norton raised his gun up
And he chased Pappy up in the tree.

When the neighbours came after my Pappy
Up in the tree was he
Then they took a rope and strung him
By the neck and then they hung him
From a branch of the old apple tree.

Now my poor Pappy lies in the orchard
Out of his misery
If my Pappy had a' know'd it
He never woulda grow'd it
'Cos he died on the old apple tree.

[Any more verses, by the way??]