Jack Elliott does it very close to the original post. Speck Rhodes used to sing another one that I don't remember exactly, but something like:

In the shade of the old apple tree
I sat on a big bumblebee
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My friends tried to move me in vain,
I sat there and grinned through my pain
I said, "Can't you see?
"It's beneath my dignity!"
In the shade of the old apple tree