Songs for Apple Day

Subject: RE: Songs for Apple Day
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 22 Oct 07 - 08:05 AM

Bob Kenward of Kent has written a superb song about different varieties of apple. It starts off

'Good apple, she's my heart's delight,
I'll pick no peach or pear,
And pippin she's the queen of all
And that I do declare'.

I think you could find him by Googling on Kent Folk. He's a good singer and writer of songs in the traditional style.

Tootle pip,

Valmai (Lewes, Sussex)

Subject: RE: Songs for Apple Day
From: maeve
Date: 23 Oct 07 - 05:50 AM

Mrs. Scarecrow- Might we know your tune for your wassail?

The leveller- I'd like to see the tunes for your apple songs, as well.

Our Apple Day went well, and included antique apple identification, an antique apple display, and an apple tasting table. Many us brought in apples in need of identification, picked from local trees. We're hopeful that we'll be grafting two of our finds to sell in 2009. We're also looking for scions for the old Sops o' Wine apple.

What we didn't have was music. TL, how did you organize the music for your Apple Day? I'd like to see what we could do to add music to next year's Apple Day in Maine.

maeve

Subject: RE: Songs for Apple Day
From: theleveller
Date: 23 Oct 07 - 08:20 AM

Maeve, we didn't organise the music, we just had mates from the folk club round to sing - it's what we usually do at parties. I have to say, there weren't many songs with an actual apple theme - let's just say lots of songs inspired by the cider. Anyway, it was a beautiful autumn day and we say outside for most of the time and just sang, drank and ate. Brilliant! Hey, we could come over to Maine next year and play for you (I wish!).

Subject: RE: Songs for Apple Day
From: Mrs Scarecrow
Date: 23 Oct 07 - 02:13 PM

Maeve I'm glad your apple day went well. Unfortunatley I'm not very good with computers and have no idea how to post my tune. I have it on CD so I'm sure it is possible if someone would like to tell me

Subject: RE: Songs for Apple Day
From: maeve
Date: 28 Oct 07 - 11:02 AM

Can anyone help Mrs. Scarecrow with posting her tune?

maeve

Subject: Lyr Add: COTTAGE GARDEN TREES
From: Saro
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 05:47 AM

Maeve, here's an apple tree song for you, inspired by the information that builders in England who were building terraces (row houses) often planted a fruit tree in the garden....
BY the way did you get the copy of Keep you in Peace I sent you? I need your postal address to send a CD with Bay of Fundy!
Love
Saro

Cottage Garden Trees
© Sarah Morgan June 2004

The man who planned these cottages he issued a command
That houses built for working folk should each one have some land
And they built them strong and sturdily, and best of all to me,
They gave each one a garden, they gave each one a tree.
They gave each one a garden, they gave each one a tree.

They planted them with skilful hand, they planted them with care,
A tree or two for every plot, an apple or a pear.
To keep the people in good heart, for the sake of all the land
And still in our cottage gardens those fine old fruit trees stand.
And still in our cottage gardens those fine old fruit trees stand.

With radishes and cabbages, with brussel sprouts and swedes,
The garden fed our family through times of greatest need
And when the Autumn it came on the harvest it was sweet
When branches rich with ripened fruit hung bending to our feet.
When branches rich with ripened fruit hung bending to our feet.

In winter we'd wassail our trees that they might fruitful be
And in Springtime they'd reward us with blossom fair to see
And on an summer Sunday, when the long week's work was done
We'd sit and rest beneath the boughs, all shaded from the sun.
We'd sit and rest beneath the boughs, all shaded from the sun.

Maybe dark days are drawing on, our human race is run,
And in flood or fire or famine we'll see our ending come
But while I've strength of heart or hand, I will not yet despair
While I can tend one plot of land and make one garden fair

And I will plant for a future time, for a time I shall not see
For my children and their children, I'll plant an apple tree.
For my children and their children, I'lll plant an apple tree.

Subject: RE: Songs for Apple Day
From: maeve
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 07:05 AM

Saro, I love it! Thank you for posting it here on theleveller's Songs for Apple Day thread. I've sent you a PM.

maeve

Subject: RE: Songs for Apple Day
From: open mike
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 02:38 AM

I am looking for songs about apples for a radio show. Stan Rogers had one Watching the Apples grow, Kate Wolf had one the Lilac Bush and the Apple Tree. A new c.d. has lots of apple songs....Gathering Time...the songs are about apples, Red and Gold, cider and more...and a Calif. songwriter Christopher Smith has a beautiful love song about Applesauce ...got any others//>??

Subject: RE: Songs for Apple Day
From: open mike
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 02:39 AM

In a town near here they are celebrating Johnny Appleseed Days this weekend!

Subject: RE: Songs for Apple Day
From: open mike
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 05:48 PM

Apple songs
JohnnyAppleseed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IASrP1-DulU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_IrdS-zu48
Christopher Smith..Applesauce love song.. Sweet River Grace
Wathcing Apples Grow..Stan Rogers.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POlMKesby1g
http://lyrics.wikia.com/Stan_Rogers:Watching_The_Apples_Grow
Gathering time.. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/gatheringtime1
Malvina Reynolds via Rosalee Sorrels
If You Love Me
Notes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1974 Schroder Music Company, renewed 2002.

If you love me, if you love, love, love me,
Plant a rose for me.
And if you think you'll love me for a long, long time,
Plant an apple tree.
The sun will shine, the wind will blow,
The rain will fall and the tree will grow,
And whether you comes, or whether you goes,
I'll have an apple, and I'll have a rose,
Lovely to bite, and nice to my nose.
And every juicy nibble will be
A sweet reminder of the time you loved me
And planted a rose for me,
And an apple tree.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SlNLKECiQA

Subject: RE: Songs for Apple Day
From: GUEST,Jane Ann Liston
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 08:16 AM

'La pomme est un fruit plein de seve', or, The Cider Song, from Planquette's 'Les Cloches de Corneville'. Roughly, 'Cider is the best drink and cures all ills'. I'm not quite sure what Nicholas and Babet are up to in the last verse, though!


La pomme est un fruit plein de sève
Et qui toujours doit nous tenter,
Car on nous dit qu'notre mère Eve
Fut la première à le goûter,
Que pour mordre au fruit défendu,
C'est dans une pomme qu'elle a mordu
C'est dans une pomme qu'elle a mordu
Est-ce dans une pomme, dans une pomme ?
Depuis le premier homme,
Tout le monde en convient,
Et c'est d'là que l'cidre nous vient

Vive le cidre de Normandie,
Rien ne fait sauter comme ça
Et cette tisane-là
Guérit toute maladie

Des pommes j'connais les prouesses,
On dit dans je n'sais quel pays
Que, de leurs charmes, trois déesses
Ont fait juge le berger Pâris.
On ne dit pas certainement
Que Pâris était un Normand
Que Pâris était un Normand.
Mais sans une pomme, sans une pomme,
Jamais c'pauvre jeune homme,
Tout à fait inconnu
N'aurait vu rien de c'qu'il a vu.

C'est dans l'pays d'oùsse que nous sommes,
Que, monté sur un tabouret,
Le beau Nicolas j'tait des pommes
Dans le tablier de Babet
A chaque pomme, Babet se haussait,
Ça faisait craquer son corset.
Ça faisait craquer son corset.
Et l'beau jeune homme, l'beau jeune homme,
En lançant chaque pomme,
Disait : C'est merveilleux,
Je n'en jette qu'une et j'en vois deux.