{"product_id":"johnny-appleseed","title":"Johnny Appleseed","description":"\u003caudio controls src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0668\/2784\/5722\/files\/Johnny-Appleseed.mp3?v=1754114497\"\u003e\u003c\/audio\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Amidon's book and CD \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/amidoncommunitymusic.com\/product\/a-song-in-my-heart-book-cd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Song in My Heart\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. Mary Alice sings and plays banjo on the recording with Sam Amidon on fiddle and Peter Amidon on piano. Mary Alice found this poem in a book called \"Best Loved Poems of the American People\". You get a pdf of a vocal score with letter chords. Here is a wonderful \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Johnny-Appleseed-Stephen-Benet\/dp\/0689829752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003epicture book\u003c\/a\u003e of the poem. Johnny Appleseed AKA Jonathan Chapman was a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnny_Appleseed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eliving legend\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLYRICS\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohnny Appleseed\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eby Stephen \u0026amp; Rosemary Vincent Benet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf Jonathan Chapman, two things are known\u003cbr\u003eThat he loved apples, that he walked alone.\u003cbr\u003eAt 70 odd he was gnarled as could be\u003cbr\u003eBut ready and sound as a good apple tree.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor fifty years over of harvest and dew,\u003cbr\u003eHe planted his apples where no apples grew.\u003cbr\u003eThe winds of the prairie might blow through his rags,\u003cbr\u003eBut he carried his seeds in the best deerskin bags.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom old Ashtabula to frontier Fort Wayne,\u003cbr\u003eHe planted and pruned and he planted again.\u003cbr\u003eHe had not a hat to encumber his head.\u003cbr\u003eHe wore a tin pan on his white hair instead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe nested with owl and with bear cub and possum,\u003cbr\u003eAnd knew all his orchards; root, tendril and blossom.\u003cbr\u003eA fine old man, as ripe as a pippin,\u003cbr\u003eHis heart still light and his step still skipping.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stalking Indian, the beast in its lair\u003cbr\u003eDid no hurt while he was there.\u003cbr\u003eFor they could tell, as all things can,\u003cbr\u003eThat Jonathan Chapman was God's own man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy did he do it?  We do not know.\u003cbr\u003eHe wishes that apples might root and grow.\u003cbr\u003eHe has no statue, he has no tomb;\u003cbr\u003eHe has his apple trees still in bloom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConsider, consider, think well upon,\u003cbr\u003eThe marvelous story of Appleseed John.","brand":"Amidon Community Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42134565159002,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/amidoncommunitymusic.com\/products\/johnny-appleseed","provider":"Amidon Community Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}