Historic Sheet Music Collection
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_8841-In-the-shade-of-the-old-apple-tree
https://archive.org/details/78_in-the-shade-of-the-old-apple-tree_claude-hopkins-and-his-orchestra-williams-van-al_gbia0013994b
https://archive.org/details/78_in-the-shade-of-the-old-apple-tree_frank-james-mc-cravy-williams-vanalstyne_gbia0028219b
https://archive.org/details/78_in-the-shade-of-the-old-apple-tree_henry-burr-van-alstyne_gbia0011130a
https://archive.org/details/78_in-the-shade-of-the-old-apple-tree_henry-burr-van-alstyne_gbia0016265a
https://archive.org/details/78_in-the-shade-of-the-old-apple-tree_pete-rugolo-and-his-orchestra-h.-williams-van-al_gbia0011604aPublication Date
1905
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
The oriole with joy was sweetly singing,
The little brook was bab’ling it’s tune,
The village bells at noon were gaily ringing
The world seem’d brighter than a harvest moon;
For there within my arms I gently pressed you,
And blushing red, you slowly turned away,
I can’t forget the way I once caressed you;
I only pray we’ll meet another day.
[Chorus]
In the shade of the old apple tree,
Where the love in your eyes I could see,
When the voice that I heard, like the song of the bird, Seem’d to whisper sweet music to me;
I could hear the dull buzz of the bee,
In the blossoms as you said to me,
With a heart that is true, I’ll be waiting for you,
In the shade of the old apple tree.
[Verse 2]
I’ve really come a long way from the city,
And though my heart is breaking I’ll be brave,
I’ve brought this bunch of flow’rs I think they’re pretty To place upon a freshly moulded grave;
If you will show me, father, where she’s lying,
Or if it’s far just point it out to me,
Said he :she told us all when she was dying,
To bury her beneath the apple tree.”
[Chorus]
Recommended Citation
Williams, Harry and Alstyne, Egbert Van, "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" (1905). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1411.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1411
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
MacIntosh Collection
New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co., 45 W. 28th St. (1905)
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