When we were younger probably was when I was between 0-8 , I was probably at my happiest life was uncomplicated and we had two apple trees in the garden , I think maybe in them days you needed two to pollinate , they probably weren't very big in all honestly but me and my brother , cousins , friends used to spend a lot of time on them using our imagination and I've often written poems and lyrics about them and that time , they seem to be rooted deep in me in a past long gone - when I think of this I'm thinking mid seventies - and if makes me quite sad because some people who were there then aren't here now - mum , dad and my brother who I no longer see - a time before it all went wrong .
This was written with the Beatles in mind - during their hippy period and it's set now but it's roots are most definitely from that time of my life in the seventies
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Sitting underneath the apple tree
at quarter to three
it's just me and my shadow
nobody knows that I'm here
only my god and he not going to tell
he's not going to sell out my secret
Chorus
Me and my shadow
sitting underneath-the apple tree of life
nobody knows that I'm here
only my god and he's not going to tell
he's not going to sell out my secret
if I died right now
I think I'd be in the right place
I've had to many bites of the bitterness
it takes hold of a soul that's unprepared
and leaves you with shadows of your own
just let me slip away surrounded by the summer sun
in a stripy coloured deckchair
Chorus
Me and my shadow
sitting underneath-the apple tree of life
nobody knows that I'm here
only my god and he's not going to tell
he's not going to sell out my secret
I've a smile on my face of contentment
I've come to realise that resentment doesn't pay
and you have to smile even when the trees are bare
and the orchard of life isn't bearing fruit
I still get out my straw hat when the rain comes tumbling down
and instead of a frown I dance in the puddles
Oh dear I'm tired now
Me and my shadow
sitting underneath-the apple tree of life
nobody knows that I'm here
only my god and he's not going to tell
he's not going to sell out my secret
he's not going to sell out my secret
