Round Apples

DESCRIPTION: "Round apple... As round as can be." Poor Annie "with a knife in her hand, You dare not touch her, or else she'll go mad" (be hanged). Her cheeks are like snow. She's dying. Wash her with milk, dress her in silk, write her name "with gold pen and ink"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1901 (Maclagan)
KEYWORDS: death playparty clothes | apples
FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond),Scotland(High)) Canada(Ont) Ireland
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Brady-AllInAllIn, pp. 174-175, "Round Apple I"/"Round Apple (II)" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame 55, "Round Apples" (1 text, 1 tune)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #499, "Round apple, round apple" (1 text)
JournalOfAmericanFolklore, F.W. Waugh, "Canadian Folk-Lore from Ontario," Vol. XXXI, No. 119 (Jan 1918), #649 p. 57 ("Round apples, round apples, by night and by day") (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Robert Craig Maclagan, The Games and Diversions of Argyleshire (London, 1901 ("Digitized by Google")), pp. 85-86, "Round Apples" (1 text)
Roy Palmer, _Ripest Apples_, The Big Apple Association, 1996, pp. 26-27, "Round Apples" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13180 and 38106
NOTES [45 words]: Roud splits the Brady texts off as #38106. But it still has the knife in hand (although it's not Annie but her mother or father who has it) and, and the gold pen and ink appears in text #2. I think they are all the same song, just with substantial textual variants. - RBW
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