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Thread #1856   Message #137788
Posted By: katlaughing
18-Nov-99 - 01:31 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Old Apple Tree (Scholl, Jerome)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE OLD APPLE TREE (Scholl, Jerome)
I'll get the tune sent to Alison later today. This is another I learned from my sister. It's a lot of fun to sing, fairly fast-paced. Didn't find it in teh DT, so hope I am not being redundant.

OLD APPLE TREE

Oh, 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.

Then one day pappy took Mrs. Norton
Out on a jamboree
When he brought her home at sunup
Mr. Norton raised his gun up
And he chased pappy up in the tree.

When the neighbors came after poor pappy
Up in the tree was he.
So they took a rope and strung him
By the neck until they hung him
By the branch of the old apple tree.

Chorus:

Say goodbye (echo)
Say goodbye (echo)
Say goodbye to the old apple tree
Put the apples in a basket
Cut the tree down for a casket
Cause he died on the old apple tree.

Chorus - last time:

Say goodbye (echo)
Say goodbye (echo)
Say goodbye to the old apple tree
If poor pappy had'a knowed it

He surely wouldn't growed it
Cause he died on the old apple tree. ^^