I Gave My Love A Cherry- Priddy (KY) 1950 Boswell
[Folk Songs of Middle Tennessee; Bowell, collected in the 1950s in Kentucky.
R. Matteson 2014]
I Gave my Love A Cherry- Sung by Nancy Priddy June 27, 1950 Bowling Green, KY.
1. I gave my love a cherry that had no stone,
I gave my love a chicken that had no bone,
I told my love a story that had no end,
I gave my love a baby with no crying.
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 story that has no end?
How can there be a baby with no crying?
3. A cherry in the blossom, it has no stone,
A chicken when it's hatching, it has no bone,
The story that I love you, it has no end,
A baby when it's sleeping has no crying.