From the 1913 musical “Tik Tok Man of Oz”.
Words by L. Frank Baum.
Music by Louis F. Gottschalk.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- In historee an apple tree
In the Garden of Eden stood
And Adam and Eve did both believe
It’s fruit was not much good
Then ‘long came a serpent mighty slick
And told ‘tm an apple they should pick
And eat it quick, and they did the trick
And the apple made ’em sick
And so you see in historee
An apple’s the cause of the fall
To eat it was surely considered unlawful
But Eve took a bite and Adam a jawful
The pain that it gave ’em was just something awful
An apple’s the cause of it all - An apple makes more tummyaches
Than rarebits, lobsters, cheese
The doctor comes, looks wise, hawhums
And tries your pain to ease
But the apple laughs at the doctor’s pill
And the sexton digs in the graveyard still
If the wicked apple has its will
It always fights to kill
And so I eat ’em sour or sweet
And wish I could eat ’em all
It’s a matter of tastes, and the more diabolic
Your agony is why the more it will frolic
And if you expire in a fit of the colic
An apple’s the cause of it all
Sung here by Vancha March: