Lyrics
(English folk song)
1. I gave my love a cherry that has no stone.
I gave my love a chicken that has no bone.
I gave my love a ring that has no end.
I gave my love a baby with no cryin’.
2. How can there be a cherry that has no stone?
How can there be a chicken that has no bone?
How can there be a ring that has no end?
How can there be a baby with no cryin’?
3. A cherry, when it’s bloomin’, it has no stone.
A chicken in an eggshell, it has no bone.
A ring, when it’s rollin’, it has no end.
A baby, when it’s sleepin’ has no cryin’.
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- Country: England
- Subject: love
- Type: lullaby
- Harmony: I, IV, V
- Melody: re / repeated tones
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm: anacrusis
- Scale: pentatonic
- Tones: s,l,drmsl
- Source: Songs for Pickin’ and Singin’, James F. Leisy, Fawcett Publications, Inc, 1962
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- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
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