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I WILL GIVE MY LOVE AN APPLE

(learned in 1959 from Bill Handley)

I will give my love an apple without e'er a core,
I will give my love a house without e'er a door,
I will give my love a palace wherein she may be,
That she can unlock without e'er a key.

How can there be an apple without e'er a core?
How can there be a house without e'er a door?
How can there be a palace wherein she may be,
That she can unlock without e'er a key?

My head is an apple without e'er a core?
My mind is a house without e'er a door?
My heart is a palace wherein she may be,
That she can unlock without e'er a key.

(from miriam berg's folksong collection)