a 1922 popular song
words and music by Al Wilson and Jas. A. Brennan
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- If you’re sad, you’re feeling bad, and blue
Why then I know just where, you’ll forget your care
Just come with me and you will be a kid again
And you’ll find what a fellow needs, if you take the path that leads
Chorus
Down by the old apple tree, that’s the only place to be
You’ll surely find the gang all there
Each day when school is all done, there’s bound to be some fun
Gettin’ ready for swimmin’ someone yells “Women”, and away you run
It’s there you read Captain Kidd, want to do the things he did
And as a Pirate sail across the sea
Before you get a chance to cross the foam
Mother comes and chases all the pirates home
Down by the old apple tree
- Take a trip on mem’rys ship, and you
Will see a place so dear, not so far from here
You’ll soon recall when you were small, a kid of three
You’ll remember that scene always, surely those were happy days
Patter
School is lettin’ out, see the gang all run
Down by the apple tree, there’s goin’ to be fun
Percy promised us if we were good today
He’s gonna teach all the fellows how to crochet
Skinny reads a book that gives you a thrill
All about a fellow named Buffalo Bill
You get so excited that you nearly bust
When seventeen Red Skins bite the dust
It’s late, you’re goin’ home, someone yells “What’s that
Gee whiz, I never saw such a pretty cat”
You go to pet it but you stop, because
It’s not the kind of animal you thought it was
After Patter:
That night just as the pale moon rose
You had to go out and bury your clothes
Down by the old apple tree
Sung here by Fred Feild: