The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #105565   Message #2174658
Posted By: Mrs Scarecrow
19-Oct-07 - 02:35 PM
Thread Name: Songs for Apple Day
Subject: RE: Songs for Apple Day
Wassail lovely Apple tree
Grow thee well, bare thee well
tonight we've come to sing to thee
May your boughs be heavy laden

And we hope this coming year
Grow...etc
Barrels of apples you will bare
May your.....

Give us apples for our pie (refrain1)
And some for cider when we're dry (refrain2)

Give us apples for our sauce (refrain1)
And some to eat as we cook of course (refrain 2)

And you the master of these trees (ref 1)
a silver sixpence if you please (ref2)

May all the trees here in this fold ( r1)
Be blessed with fruit red green or gold (r2)

And that is all we've come to say (r1)
Wassail good tree till that autumn day
When your boughs are heavy laden.

I sang it to the trees on my allotment in January and they have done very well but I think the wet summer and warm autumn have more to do with it.
Ann