I will give my love an apple without e'er a core (Volkslieder (Folksongs), set by (Benjamin Britten, Nicholas Marshall, Jean Christophe Rosaz)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

I will give my love an apple without...

Language: English

Available translation(s): FRE

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,
And she may unlock it without any key.

My head is the apple without e'er a core,
My mind is the house without e'er a door,
My heart is the palace wherein she may be,
And she may unlock it without any key.

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from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , a folk song from Dorset collected by H. Hammond and R. Vaughan Williams [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "The Riddle Song" [voice and guitar] [
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by Nicholas Marshall (b. 1942), "I will give my love an apple" [voice, sopranino saxophone, descant, treble recorder, and piano], from Carousel: Seven Children's Songs, no. 4, Forsyth Bros. [
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by Jean Christophe Rosaz , "I will give my love an apple", 1999. [voice and violin] [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

Researcher for this text: Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 76