I Will Give my Love an Apple

"I Will Give my Love an Apple" is a traditional English folk song. It was arranged by Benjamin Britten^[1] and by Herbert Howells. The song begins:

I will give my love an apple, I will give my love an apple without e'er a core,

A version of the song was collected at Sherborne, Dorset, by H. E. D. Hammond in 1906; another version was printed in Folk Song Journal, vol. 11, 1907.^[2]

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^ Boris Ford Benjamin Britten's poets: the poetry he set to music 1996 Page 213 "This volume of folk songs included 'Bonny at morn' as the penultimate song, which Britten also included in Eight Folk Song Arrangements (see p. 281). trad. I will give my love an apple I will give my love an apple without e'er a core, I will give.."
^ Reeves, James (1960) The Everlasting Circle. London: Heinemann; pp. 161-62

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[1] Boris Ford Benjamin Britten's poets: the poetry he set to music 1996 Page 213 "This volume of folk songs included 'Bonny at morn' as the penultimate song, which Britten also included in Eight Folk Song Arrangements (see p. 281). trad. I will give my love an apple I will give my love an apple without e'er a core, I will give.."

[2] Reeves, James (1960) The Everlasting Circle. London: Heinemann; pp. 161-62

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