RIPE APPLES
Written by Guido Cenciarelli & Mike Shepstone
As recorded by The Rokes on “The Rokes—Rarities, 1967”

Ripe apples make a tree seem taller.
Tall trees make a small man smaller.
How can a small man face
A world as big as this?

Grandfather, tell me all there is to know.
Show me all there is to show
To help me as I grow.
He said: "Look around you, son

“Your baby brother's cryin'.
He doesn't understand.
Your sister she is smilin'.
She's holdin' someone's hand.
Your Ma and Pa are smilin'.
They're happy on the land.

"But look at me: I'm cryin',
But not because I'm old,
No, not because I'm I'm old.
I'm cryin' for something I was told.

“You know, they told me--

REPEAT WHOLE SONG. REPEAT FIRST VERSE.
Ripe apples.

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The Rokes were a British pop band who moved to Italy and they were more popular there than in the UK; they recorded songs in both Italian and English.