Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow/The Unlucky Apple

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4638551Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow — The Unlucky Apple1905Paul Laurence Dunbar

THE UNLUCKY APPLE

'TWAS the apple that in Eden
Caused our father's primal fall;
And the Trojan War, remember—
'Twas an apple caused it all.
So for weeks I've hesitated,
You can guess the reason why,
For I want to tell my darling
She's the apple of my eye.