When October comes stealing out of the summer
Pour the cider from barrels for you and for me
The laughter that rings through the cold days of winter
Makes the happiest song of the old apple tree
When soft evening light flows over the orchards
Young couples come courting to flirt and to tease
Words under boughs so heavy with promise
Make the softest song of the old apple tree
For the apple tree has been here since the wildwood
Covered the land from sea to sea
There's been bone bare winters and 4,000 summers
Since the fresh blossom of the first apple tree
When spring brings the brides into the churchyard
There's blossom for blessings let handfulls fall free
New lives and hopes for the next generation
Make an ancient song of the old apple tree
When night comes marching between the gravestones
And the ghosts of the dead dance on the breeze
The windfall that rots and the waste of forever
Makes the saddest song of the old apple tree
For the apple tree has been here since the wildwood
Covered the land from sea to sea
There's been falcon flown summers and 4,000 winters
Since the fresh blossom of the first apple tree
When the Robin comes and sits in the meadow
And I'm an old man taking my ease
The song that he sings and will sing me tomorrow
Makes the sweetest of sounds for the old apple tree
For the apple tree has been here since the wildwood
Covered the land from sea to sea
There's been bone bare winters and 4,000 summers
Since the fresh blossom of the first apple tree
For the apple tree has been here since the wildwood
Covered the land from sea to sea
There's been falcon flown summers and 4,000 winters
Since the fresh blossom of the first apple tree
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