Fruit harvest songs. Please?

Subject: RE: Fruit harvest songs. Please?
From: GUEST,FloraG
Date: 21 Sep 18 - 05:38 AM

In Kent we have the marvelous Bob Kenwood who has written songs about apples. His songs are creeping into the repertoire of a lot of local singers.
FloraG

Subject: RE: Fruit harvest songs. Please?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 21 Sep 18 - 05:15 AM

Perhaps a popular wassail would fit the bill.

The Gloucestershire Wassail

Wassail, wassail all over the town!
Our bread it is white and our ale it is brown,
Our bowl, it is made of the good maple tree;
From the wassailing bowl we'll drink unto thee.

Subject: RE: Fruit harvest songs. Please?
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 21 Sep 18 - 04:15 AM

Not strictly fruit but
Hopping Down in Kent

[Link fixed by a Mudelf.]

Subject: RE: Fruit harvest songs. Please?
From: GUEST,Julia L
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 10:55 PM

Here's a few more
I LOVE Blackberry Time by Jud Caswell


(In) Berry Picking Time- Great Big Sea
Pickin' Wild Mountain Berries-Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
Where We Went Picking Berries-Frank Howard 1823
With Kitty Picking Berries -Fred White 1873

Subject: RE: Fruit harvest songs. Please?
From: GUEST,Julia L
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 10:29 PM

Jenny picking berries on the hill

Subject: RE: Fruit harvest songs. Please?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 07:51 PM

I really like the late Peter Krug's Migrant song.

I don't know how it is in other places, but fruit picking and the immigration issue are one of the most important issues here in California. I can't imagine how fruit could be harvested here without immigrant workers.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Fruit harvest songs. Please?
From: GUEST,Lizzo
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 07:15 PM

Thanks for the harvest so far. Will alert requesting person to this thread. Most of them might not suit! I have an idea that something in the space between Linden Lea, and Drink Up Thy Zider (?) is more the sort of thing. However. We shall see.

Subject: Lyr Add: CHERRY RIPE (Herrick/Horn)
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 06:50 PM

Cherry Ripe - words by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) and music by Charles Edward Horn (1786–1849)

If so be you ask me where
They do grow, I answer there
Where my Julia's lips do smile,
There's the land or Cherry Isle.

(Chorus) Cherry ripe, cherry ripe, ripe I cry,
Full and fair ones, come and buy.
Cherry ripe, cherry ripe, ripe I cry,
Full and fair ones, come and buy

Where my Julia's lips do smile,
There's the land or Cherry Isle,
There plantations fully show
All the year where cherries grow.

(Chorus)

Subject: RE: Fruit harvest songs. Please?
From: peteglasgow
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 05:38 PM

dream up, dream up.. let me fill your cup with the promise of a man ["Harvest" by Neil Young]

Subject: Lyr Add: GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN (excerpt)
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 05:20 PM

Golden Apples of the Sun

Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.

Sung by Judy Collins; lyrics by William Butler Yeats from the poem The Song of Wandering Aengus, music by Travis Edmonson

Subject: RE: Fruit harvest songs. Please?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 05:06 PM

After apple picking by Robert Frost

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still.
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple-picking now.

Subject: RE: Fruit harvest songs. Please?
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 04:47 PM

Pastures of Plenty - Words and Music by Woody Guthrie

I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes
I slept on the ground in the light of the moon
On the edge of the city, you'll see us and then
We come with the dust and we go with the wind

California, Arizona, I harvest your crops
Well its North up to Oregon to gather your hops
Dig the beets from your ground, cut the grapes from your vine
To set on your table your light sparkling wine

Subject: RE: Fruit harvest songs. Please?
From: MudGuard
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 04:34 PM

I immediately thought of "Deportees" by the Dubliners (although it is not exactly about the harvest ...)

Subject: RE: Fruit harvest songs. Please?
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 04:00 PM

Berry Fields o Blair [Lyrics in this thread]

Subject: RE: Fruit harvest songs. Please?
From: gillymor
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 03:45 PM

Jimmy Rodgers wonderful Peach Picking Time in Georgia [Lyrics]

Subject: RE: Fruit harvest songs. Please?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 03:38 PM

I've heard a good version of that sung by Michael Cooney.

Subject: RE: Fruit harvest songs. Please?
From: gillymor
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 03:37 PM

Mango Time by Tony Bird.

Subject: RE: Fruit harvest songs. Please?
From: Stewart
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 03:35 PM

Apple Pickers Reel – Larry Hanks

Cheers, S. in Seattle

Subject: Fruit harvest songs. Please?
From: GUEST,Lizzo
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 03:24 PM

I'm asking for a friend who is too embarrassed to ask on his own account.

[Many song titles in this thread have been converted to links by a Mudelf.]