Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems  

Notes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1974 Schroder Music Company, renewed 2002.

If you love me, if you love, love, love me,
Plant a rose for me.
And if you think you'll love me for a long, long time,
Plant an apple tree.

The sun will shine, the wind will blow,
The rain will fall and the tree will grow,
And whether you comes, or whether you goes,
I'll have an apple, and I'll have a rose,
Lovely to bite, and nice to my nose.
And every juicy nibble will be
A sweet reminder of the time you loved me
And planted a rose for me,
And an apple tree.

Malvina Reynolds songbook(s) in which the music to this song appears:
---- The Malvina Reynolds Songbook
---- There's Music in the Air: Songs for the Middle-Young

Other place(s) where the music to this song appears:
---- Peter Blood and Annie Patterson: Rise Up Singing: The Group-Singing Song Book [lyrics & guitar chords only] (Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out Corp., 1992)
---- Peter and Annie Blood-Patterson: Winds of the People [lyrics & guitar chords only] (Sing Out, 1980?)
---- Peter Blood-Patterson: Rise Up Singing: The Group-Singing Song Book [lyrics & guitar chords only] (Bethlehem, PA: Sing Out Corp., 1988), p. 125
---- Julie Forest Middleton: Songs for Earthlings: A Green Spirituality Songbook (Philadelphia: Emerald Earth Pub., 1998)
---- Sing Out!, Volume 38(3) (1993-94), p. 56
---- Sing the Good Earth: A Farming and Gardening Songbook (Pittsboro, NC: Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, 1982)
---- Hilda E. Wenner and Elizabeth Freilicher, Here's To the Women: 100 Songs For and About American Women (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987)

Malvina Reynolds recording(s) on which this song is performed:
---- Held Over
---- Malvina Reynolds...Sings the Truth (2008)

Recordings by other artists on which this song is performed:
---- Aya: Aya (Slim Evans Records and Tapes 005, 1988)
---- Lu Mitchell: What's a Mother to Do? (Pasquinade, 1990)
---- Nancy Raven: Singing, Prancing & Dancing (Pacific Cascade Records LPL 7038, 1984)
---- Margret RoadKnight: An Audience with Margret RoadKnight (HTA 1/3, 1998)
---- Rosalie Sorrels: Miscellaneous Abstract Record No. 1 (Green Linnet Records SIF 1042, 1982)
---- Rosalie Sorrels: Learned by Livin', Sung by Heart (Way Out in Idaho Productions, 2003)
---- Jane Voss and Hoyle Osborne: Side by Side, a Tape of Songs for Children (Gentle Wind GW 1033, 1985)
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