Thursday Theme Song, Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3npseJPu5g

This is the ornamental crabapple tree in front of our little hobbit house
in southeastern Alberta. The tree is beautiful when it blooms in the spring,
and we won't trim the bottom branches because, when the snow is deep,
as it is this month, a small herd of deer come to eat the fruit. Some of the deer
can stand on their hind legs to reach the higher branches. Fun to watch!

HIM:

Don't sit under the apple tree

with anyone else but me

Anyone else but me, anyone else

but me, no, no, no

Don't sit under the apple tree

with anyone else but me

'Til I come marchin' home

HER:

Don't give out with those lips

of yours to anyone else but me

Anyone else but me, anyone else

but me, no, no, no

Watch those girls on foreign shores,

You'll have to report to me

When you come marchin' home

BOTH:

Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me

I know the apple tree is reserved for you and me

And I'll be true 'til you come marchin' home!

I remember my father playing a 78rpm record of this song when I was very young. He told me all about Glenn Miller, whose band made the song famous during World War II, but who died during that war when the plane, in which he was traveling, disappeared over the English Channel. When Dad bought me my first record player, it came with a box of 45rpm records, all by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra. No matter what my opinion is on the subject of war, there are young Canadians risking their lives in Afghanistan right now. I hope they believe in what they are doing, and I'd like to dedicate Major Glenn Miller's song to them.

Here, once again, is the YouTube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3npseJPu5g

Posted for Hootin' Anni's musical meme, Thursday Theme Song.

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