Song of the Apple Market   Part II

Introduction

Well, no doubt competition from the nearby Market Place and also from the supermarkets has put paid to the fruit and veg trade in the Apple Market, but it is very sad, so I thought there ought to be a sequel imagining what might happen if the world actually worked properly.

So here is the Song of the Apple Market - Part II.

Song of the Apple Market - Part II

I was coming through the Apple Market just the other day
- I don't go by there often, but I had a bill to pay -
And I think that you'll be glad to hear the news I have to tell,
That someone's opened up a stall with fruit and veg to sell.

They've carrots, beans and cabbages, they've oranges and pears;
They've cucumbers, tomatoes and lots of other wares,
Like aubergines and cherries, but the happiest news of all
Is, they've dozens of varieties of apples on this stall.

Let flags be waved! Let trumpets sound!
Let choirs of angels sing!
Let all good folk from miles around
Their bags and baskets bring,

To load them full with apples
Till the beads stand on their brow.
There are lots and lots of apples
In the Apple Market now.

They've big ones and they've small ones; they're yellow, red and green.
They stock more kinds of apples than I have ever seen.
They've French ones and New Zealand ones, South African as well,
And how many types of English ones I really cannot tell.

They've Egremonts and Cox's - they're the tastiest, I believe -
They've Laxton's and they've Worcesters, they've Gala and James Grieve.
The piles of English eaters seem to reach up to the sky,
And they've heaps of Bramley's Seedlings if you want to make a pie.

Let flags be waved, etc.

 

(Coda)
They've lots and lots and lots and lots,
And lots and lots and lots and lots;
They've heaps and heaps of apples
In the Apple Market now.