Hi again, Richie,

The reason Meade doesn't have "June Apple" is that, to my knowledge, the first commercial recording wasn't until the 1950s.

This is partly because "June Apple" is a rare Galax area revision of a line that ordinarily doesn't have June in it. It appears (as in "Cindy: and many other songs) something on the order of:

Wish I was an apple
Hanging on a tree,
And every time my [Cindy, Janie, Rosie, whoever] pass,
She'd take a little bite of me.

However, the "June Apple" verses are floaters and widely circulated in many songs that Meade does cover, to which this song is loosely related.

Bob